Ivson Souza

Automated tests for Digital Assistant, the main product of Ve Global. When I started working at Ve, there were multiple Agile teams, and each had a QA tester responsible for planning and executing manual tests on each sprint.

When the managers shifted the focus to automated tests, I played a key role in developing test frameworks and kicking off their use. My team started creating a test framework with C# and Selenium. After some time, we mentored the testers from the other teams so everyone would start writing automated tests.

At British Petroleum, I helped deliver a trading platform that was being developed for their team of traders. The project was developed using the MVVM pattern. In order to have faster and more reliable tests, the framework interacted with the ViewModel layer of the application.

The result was excellent—hundreds of automated tests ran in less than 10 minutes every time the new code was merged into the main branch. The developers also had access to the tests, and they regularly ran all tests on their working branch, which allowed them to find bugs very early in the product lifecycle.

I helped Elucidat restructure a pre-existing automated tests framework to allow them to scale up their SaaS authoring platform. Initially, many tests had to run serially, meaning each test run could result in many false positives. That problem was tackled using API calls to set up and tear down test data for each scenario. Besides increasing the reliability of the tests, this work also allowed all tests to run in parallel, considerably decreasing the time it takes to validate a new release.

Additionally, the whole framework was migrated to Page Object to make adding new tests and maintaining the existing ones easier. This migration helped Elucidat reach a fantastic milestone—they are releasing more code than ever fast and safely.