The unique Devtest
Solution Team approach has been proven highly effective with a 100%
success rate for delivering projects, on time, on budget and with
quality.
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A Devtest Solution
Team comprises of four roles that aren't found within the
traditional software development and testing environments.
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- Defect Manager
- Test Automation Engineer
- Performance Testing Engineer
- Build Engineer
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Defect Manager / Metrics and Triage Manager |
The Defect Manager is
responsible for managing the defect and metrics tracking tools, and
facilitates the Triage, a daily prioritisation of defects.
Specific tasks performed by this role are:
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- Manages the defect tracking tool.
- Filters, updates and chases missing information on defects.
- Assigns defects to the most appropriate person to perform the next resolution activity.
- Documents the best bug lifecycle strategy and educates the team on how it applies to them.
- Facilitates a regular triage between development, test and business to make quick decisions on priority, assignment and scope.
- Obtains the right information to assess these decisions.
- Interprets trend lines and statistics daily for management to make decisions on course corrections. Daily monitoring keeps the project on track.
- Coordinates with the test team and release management for each target release to ensure they have retested all the bugs.
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Automation Testing Engineer |
The Automation
Engineer is responsible for planning the structure of the automated
test harness. This engineer develops the build verification
suite and automates test cases for regression testing.
Specific tasks performed by this role are:
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- Evaluates existing approach to testing automation.
- Recommends approach to test case automation and discusses potential tools with client.
- Creates a Build Verification Test suite for the Build Engineer. This is also provided to the test team.
- Writes automated test scripts in parallel with the development of each new feature. These are then passed to Test Engineers to run daily.
- Runs the automated test suite daily.
- Troubleshoots any failing test cases.
- Logs and tracks bugs/issues that arise when designing or executing test automation.
- Leads and trains client testers in the skills of scripting and keeping automation in sync.
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Performance Testing Engineer
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The Performance
Engineer is responsible for managing and testing the performance of
the product throughout development.
Specific tasks performed
by this role are:
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- Evaluates the existing infrastructure and applications.
- Recommends approaches to performance testing at a component level first, then by project area and finally through the entire application.
- Runs traces, scripts and bench marks across application and infrastructure to uncover potential bottle necks.
- Creates performance testing scripts.
- Tests the failover, availability, transactions per second, robustness, data integrity, stress and volume.
- Tunes and tweaks the tools, environments and code in partnership with the development to ensure that the environment and applications achieve their targets.
- Coordinates with the test team to expose bottlenecks earlier in the project cycle.
- Works with the development team to achieve specific performance goals before new code is introduced into the daily build.
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Build Engineer
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The Build engineer is
responsible for the implementation of the "Daily Build", which
includes the automated installation, deployment, and Build
Verification Testing (BVT) 'smoke-testing' of the built software.
Also responsible for managing the cycles of daily code check-in
prior to the build, as well as the management of the environments.
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Specific tasks
performed by this role are:
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- Evaluate existing build process, scripts, automation, tools.
- Recommend changes, tools and processes, and introduces automation to achieve stable daily software builds.
- Coordinates with the development team on their daily 'check-ins'; troubleshoots why code is breaking the build; writes, fine-tunes, or adapts scripts and tools to get the build running on a daily basis with proven consistency and stability.
- Coordinates with the Environment Managers on automated deployments to development, testing, staging and production.
- Coordinate with Test on the automated build verification tool scripts that verify that newly checked in code has not broken previous builds. This adds stability to the code base.
- Transfer skills to existing Developers, Environment Managers and Test Engineers.
- Co-ordination and management of source control repositories in conjunction with the Development Team Lead.
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