Tag: Selenium

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Process Quality Troubleshooting

Zero to Hero QA

(Decorist : 10/18-1/20)

Challenge

Inherited a codebase having no unit nor functional testing nor CI/CD.

Action

Recruited a Sr. Automation QA Engineer, faciliating the introduction of automated testing to the company, and had him create Happy-Path coverage of main UXes.

After three months, all Happy Paths of demand- and supply-side user experiences were covered.

After six months, 100% of site (positive and negative scenarios) has been covered.

Results

  • Introduced automated QA testing, saving the team from shipping show-stopping bugs.
Categories
Architecture demand-side Frontend Innovation SPAs TDD

Improving QA with SPA

CrowdFlower : 4/13-7/13)

Test Questions are used as the gold standard of quality in the CF platform, but they can be laborious to create, particularly for work that’s periodically repeated.

As no templatized solution existed, a team of three of us (me as F2E, Product Manager, and Backend Engineer) tackled creation of an internal product to simplify the workflow.

The user flow was to create “Cases” of Test Questions that got sent to jobs as “Batches”; where the composite idea of a “Mold” encompassed all “Cases” and “Batches” for a particular set of target jobs.

(“The Forge” was the product’s original name, derived from a time when “Test Questions” were known as “Gold.”)

One of the more challenging aspects of the project was the testing of the app. Selenium has always been a robust solution for testing even JS-heavy experiences, but given its heft, Poltergeist was used instead.

The product was to eventually be made available externally but never was.

Results

  • Built internal workflow tool using Ember.js.
Categories
demand-side eCommerce Frontend

Owned Demand-side UX

(CrowdFlower : 1/13-3/13)

The app is CrowdFlower’s most highly-trafficked app. It also happens to be one of the company’s most technically complex, given its history.

Its architecture is that of a Rails app, wrapping a Gem that extracted business logic from the company’s legacy (original) Merb app. The Gem contains all logic around rendering, styling, and providing interactivity for CML, the basis of abstracting microtasks in the platform.

The app was built (before my time) in order to bring a richer, more interactive experience to those doing microtasking work. When the original architect departed only weeks after I joined the company, maintenance and feature implementation fell to me.

Results

  • Supported site’s most highly-trafficked, revenue-generating UI (allowing for custom JS and CSS.)
Categories
Affiliate Backend eCommerce Frontend Full-Stack Growth supply-side

Selling More

(Shop It To Me : 6/10-7/12)

Results

  • Iterating with Product to scope, implement (Rails w/MySQL,) and A/B-test pixel-perfect sign-up/refer-a-friend/search/browse/opt-out/profile experiences
  • Drove conversions in the form of signups, virality, and clicks for not only our flagship web and email products (used by 4M+ users) but also eight new product launches
  • Architected company’s newest Ember.js-based product
  • Quickly integrated into a small, fast-moving, startup engineering team
  • Became proficient in all things Rails
  • Ensuring quality through the use of code reviews, TDD, unit, functional, integration, and regression tests under continuous integration, testing plans, and mentoring/pairing to deliver functionality, fix bugs, refactor legacy code, and transfer knowledge
  • Have assumed lead (primarily frontend) responsibilities while reporting directly to CTO
  • Established F2E guidelines and best practices
  • Architected the company’s newest product, an Ember.js-based Single Page Application
  • Leveraged Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest APIs to increase our social reach (including the use of Facebook Connect and the Like Button during signup and tell-a-friend experiences)
  • Prototyped iPhone app for user to navigate item stream during in-house Hackathon
  • Contributed improvements to our Nokogiri-based data-harvesting framework.