Business Context
- The client is a reputed Media Agency who advise companies on how and where to advertise, and on how to present a positive picture of themselves to the public. Primary services include advertising, public relations and other forms of media management.
- They ensure that a marketing message appeals to consumers, appears in the right place, at the right time and that the advertiser pays the best possible price.
Expectations
- Smooth integration between two systems
- Improved quality of builds handed over for testing
- Improved and enriched product offering to end customers, improved customer satisfaction by avoiding time spent on bug-fix / hot-fix releases
Environment
- Bookings can be made from in house application and also from the third party application
- Third party bookings should be integrated with in house application
- All the billing and invoicing will happen within in house application
- Bookings should be available for media matching
Key Challenges
- Existing application is built on legacy technologies and do not support test automation
- Regression testing had be done manually
- Integration must be compatible with existing other third party integrations
- Performance testing
Key Highlights
- Understood the third party application with minimum support
- Identified major integration gaps in early stage
Solution
- Testing team comprising:
✓ 1 x Test Lead/Manager
✓ 2 x Manual Test Engineers - Designed test strategy and performed functional and system integration tests across the application & UAT support
- Streamlined IT processes and artifacts, optimized resource skills, tool metrics & provided well-defined quality management and monitoring mechanism
- Functional and regression testing for existing
- API testers (on demand)
- Testing team enabled to produce manual test cases
- Test data creation for UAT testing
- End-to-end functional testing and provided agile coaching and streamlined their test processes
- Custom scripted a performance test with python as there was no feasibility of using any standard performance test tools
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