Business Transformation with Open Source Test Automation
Joerg Bruewer
Global Head of QA - Schenker, Germany
I will be sharing organizational and technology insights, and lessons learned, from a large scaled automation focused QA Transformation.
For Test Automation we were able to harmonize the automation tools and build a community of practice around the automation topic. To make this happen, we foster an open source strategy and make intensive use of the RobotFramework, based on Python. To do so, we build up trainings and offer coaching on the tool usage to our QA Engineers. As a result, more than 50 QA Engineers are now using and improving our Framework day by day. We have developed our own libraries for the Robotframework, and paid back to the RoboFramework community.
The empowerment of QA Engineers to use automation as tool, significantly increased the efficiency of their work. Now test automation is not only used to automate regression tests, we also used the automation tool to setup their test environment and prepared test data for instance. As an additional benefit of driving our own tool development based on Open Source, we can now test end-2-end processes.
Major projects have developed end-2-end automated tests across technology and environment. If you look how a shipment order is created and getting processed, EDI Integration, Web-Applications, Rich-Client Application and Mobile Applications need to be integrated. We now cover this by ourselves and took an important step into RPA. This was a game changer and significantly reduced release time.
RESULTS:
- We significantly increased test coverage
- We increased efficiency
- We empowered QA Engineers
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About Me!
Joergs’ career has started on development in Unix C and Java before developing further on other technology domains like high performance database optimization and technology architecture development. Since 2005 Joerg take the global accountability for technology architecture development in large logistic companies. Here his attention on quality growth, especially on the aspect of efficiency improvement by automation, and the collaboration benefits across the professions to simplify and lean the quality development process. In 2016 Joerg took over the Global QA Organization at Schenker AG, that has now grown up to 130 QA Engineers across the globe, located in Warsaw, Nanjing, Delhi and Essen. In this role he harmonized the QA processes, tools and technologies and fostered the Open Sources usage. He has empowered a community of 70 QA Engineers, using the Open Source RobotFramwork to create value for our business! His core team is actively contributing to the Open-Source community and pushing innovative development like AI in test automation.