Chapter / Tribe Presentation

The Expertise, Performance and Automation Chapter is responsible for three main activities:

• Performance testing of managed applications
• Automation of functional and non-regression tests
• Synthetic monitoring of applications in production

The beneficiary aims to implement several enhancements to its technical foundation and seeks the Providers expertise in functional and non-regression test automation.

Profile

Main Missions and Activities

Within this framework, the mission consists of contributing to:

• Defining the project and scoping the needs for automated functional testing
• Establishing the test strategy according to identified needs
• Assisting the project on the functional testing scope, providing QA coaching if the project is autonomous on Tosca, and promoting test value through feedback and experience sharing
• Supporting the team lead on all types of activities

• Maintaining a non-commercial relationship with the software vendor (currently Tricentis, publisher of Tosca Test Suite): incident tracking, consulting, etc.
• Administering the automated functional testing infrastructure with Tosca Test Suite: troubleshooting, operational maintenance, capacity monitoring
• Maintaining documentation bases, relationships, and collaboration with experts

Scope of intervention: Applications of the IT department.
The diversity of supported projects results in heterogeneous application profiles being tested: Web UI tests, Mainframe UI tests, API and web services tests, document generation/control tests (e.g., PDF).

Expected Deliverables

• Estimation and documentation of automated functional test strategy
• Creation of test cases in Tosca Test Suite and setup of Continuous Testing pipelines with Jenkins and Xray
• Advising autonomous entities on best practices
• Demonstrating the benefits of test automation to project entities and validating ROI for automating manual tests
• Assisting third-party entities
• Implementing automated tests on Tosca Test Suite: strategy, troubleshooting, test report validation
• Implementing Continuous Testing

Soft Skills

• Collaboration and teamwork
• Rapid learning ability
• Problem-solving skills
• Adaptability
• Time management
• Communication skills
• Promotion and evangelization of Quality approaches
• Positively challenge project teams by being a proactive contributor