Logistics: Integration Testing

Client Description:
Client helps healthcare organizations integrate through intra-company medical transportation logistics, enabling customers to outsource all of their daily and as-needed delivery requirements.
Business Challenge:
Client’s recent implementation of a Next-Generation system utilizing cloud-based SaaS products required two solutions to be adopted: one for order/entry management and the other for route planning management. Olenick assisted with all client integration testing amongst the new customized systems.
Key Service Areas:
- Requirements Analysis
- Test Planning
- Test Case Authoring
- Manual Test Execution
- Defect Reporting and Management
Technologies:
- Salesforce (O/E, delivery management, customer portal)
- Dell Boomi (integration layer)
- Android scanner application
- PractiTest
- Descartes Logistics Platform (order, shipment, vendor management, route planning, scheduling, route monitoring)
Solution:
- Obtained, reviewed, and evaluated client artifacts as a dedicated QA team for the client
- Conducted interviews with IT and business to understand processes
- Developed and documented integration testing approaches
- Created test cases and scripts and entered (or imported) into PractiTest management tool
- Executed manual tests, documented results, managed defects, and verified defect fixes
Impact:
- Authored several hundred test cases to the test management system
- Identified through testing and analysis a significant number of complicated integration issues, design defects, and previously unidentified requirements
- Successful first deployment of live system to pilot market in final week of engagement