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