To be able to respond to the elevated demand of changes by the energy market and to
ensure the smooth delivery of high quality products in Production, Atrias would like to hire a testCo team. The team will be created by consultants with a Time & Material contract, all from one contracting party i.e. 2 TestCoordinators.
•The testco’s will report to the Atrias Test manager
•Support projects and major releases by coordinating the market integration tests
with DGO Suppliers:
oResponsible for facilitating the test processes and for communicating them to the involved test teams (internal & external)
oResponsible for ensuring that test related agreements are followed and adhered to oResponsible for communication between the test teams and Atrias teams (analists, vendor, PCA, …)
oResponsible for generating the weekly and final test reports based on ALM QC & Topdesk for management and stakeholdersoManage defect and ticket handling as part of the project in resp. ALM QC and Topdesk
oActively participate in developing a mature test organisation within Atrias
oBridging between agile & non-agile way of working (focus on quality)
oE2E Test coordination of the entire life cycle of the product/project incl.handover to ServiceoOrganize and define agenda of internal & external test related meetings with testers, testco’s and stakeholders
oSteer internal vendor for defect analysis and bug fixing; organize the needed follow up
meetings
oEmployable for different projects or tracks in parallel
oThe test logging tool that Atrias uses is OT ALM QC. Knowledge about reporting and querying in the tool is a must.oDefect procedure in OT ALM QC has to be followed and quality control has to be
done.oExperience with agile testing is a must; we expect from the contractor to foresee the necessary trainings to enhance and support this knowledge/experience where needed
oThe team members should be able to have a critical view on the product and learn how to challenge the quality of a delivered product especially for integration with the main branch.
This will require a thorough learning path in growing and perpetuating the knowledge of the different applications.
oThe team members should be able to work independently
oThe team members should be able to work with both waterfall & agile test approaches
oAs we continuously want to improve our work, it is expected from the team to give advise on techniques and approaches to optimize test strategy across the entire life cycle of a product.
oThe team will organize frequent feedback to the test manager on the way of working,
organization, issues, etc…. As such these actions will be input for the benefits of the Team organization and test approaches.oDefect treatment/analysis has to be according to thepriority
oOrganize alignment meetings with written preparation and meeting
conclusions:
oWith the team members & TestCo’s – Daily – Stand UpoWith the impacted
vendor (weekly/Daily) – Defect follow up/SCRUM meetingsoWith the impacted DGO/Market party (Testing/Domain WG)oDelivery status reporting:
oWeekly and monthly to the Test mgr, Project lead and Atrias mgmt
The Atrias Market Integration TestCo Team is responsible for the preparation, coordination and execution of the E2E test scope in order to delivery a high quality product to the customer i.e the DGO, Energy suppliers & TSO.
The testco coordinates and faclitates the integration test tracks together with the market parties. He/She works in close collaboration with the functional domain leads to make sure all test scope is clearly defined and shared with the market teams. planned and executed in time.
He/She works in close collaboration with the vendor team to make sure defects and incidents are fixed in time.
He/She works in close collaboration with the Release team to ensure tests can be executed as a planned and to avoid delays due to unforeseen interventions during the test phase on the different Test environments.
He/She works in close collaboration with the market test teams to ensure the test progress and communication to and from the Atrias teams working on the product to be
delivered.Next to that, the Maket Integration TestCo ensures a smooth handover of the
System Acceptance test phase (internal) to the Market Integration Test phase, takes part in the Go/No Go meetings, stakeholder – and management reporting meetings.
He/She reports regularly to the Test management and project Lead.Market integration testing is needed for every change that enters the main CMS Branch.
All service domains are tackled i.e.:
•Message Exchange (MeX): Structure, Rectification, Measure/Bill
•Batch Treatment (BT): Infeed & Settlement
•Infra changes: Upgrades, purging, configuration changes, connectivity changes
etc.