Case Study: Improve Your Team by Hiring an SDET for All-in-One Developing & Testing
ABOUT THE CLIENT:
SERVICES USED:
SERVICES USED:
CHALLENGE:
As our client has a large expense management platform, they realized that as they were growing, there was a need to build teams that would continually test the quality of new code.
Softjourn provided them with several teams, and during our collaboration, teams started growing to support complex business processes.
SOLUTION:
SDETs position brings a lot of responsibilities as they are engineers able to fix the code by writing a new one and testing it at the same time.
All SDETs are heavily invested in working agile as they are a part of the lifecycle model where they need to contribute both independently and as a part of a larger team.
RESULT:
Benefits of working with SDET professionals:
- Extensive code coverage
- Minimize testing cycles
- Able to work in a team as well as individually
- Ability to build, deploy and test the code
- Automate acceptance testing
- The mindset of a developer and a tester
The Need
Our client has a large expense management platform that continues to grow in size and popularity. While this is great for business, the client realized that to maintain their code quality, they’d need teams who could continually test the quality of new code.
Softjourn provided this client with several teams for Invoice, Expense, and Admin to cover the basic features. During our collaboration, our teams also handled the high customer demand for customized features, rules, and automation. Our teams worked directly with the client’s customers to ensure that they would frictionlessly support their business processes.
While we started this project with small teams, in time – as the number of customers grew – every team grew to contain frontend and backend developers, scrum masters, and most recently, Software Development Engineers in Test (SDETs).
SDETs are IT professionals highly skilled in both QA and software development. Depending on the project, SDETs serve a part in both development and testing roles and are responsible for Black Box and White Box testing. SDETs bring the best of two mindsets into one position: The expertise of a tester and the background of a developer.
The expertise of SDETs is primarily focused on software testability, performance, and processes, while their responsibilities include building test automatization solutions for functional, regression, and performance testing.
The Solution
Testers largely contribute to the quality of the software of any development team. Testing is a crucial stage in the development life cycle as it focuses on the security and functionality of the product. Recent changes in testing methodologies have brought new additions to the standard testing roles, which can be observed in the work of SDETs and QAs.
While a QA engineer must have complete knowledge of the ins and outs of a variety of testing processes and approaches but doesn’t necessarily need to have a background in software development. On the other hand, an SDET is a developer who is deeply involved in the project and well-versed in bug reporting, data management, testing environments, tools, and overall troubleshooting.
Even though the role of SDET might appear similar to a QA at first glance, there are many differences between the two positions.
SDETs are often heavily invested in working as an agile team since they need to contribute both independently and as a part of a larger team. An SDET’s position comes with more responsibilities as a QA, because they are engineers who are able to fix, rewrite, and test codes.
By hiring an SDET, your business is an important step closer to improving the overall quality of code and the speed to implement it. SDETs contribute to building and deploying more developed software and creating advanced testing frameworks.
In addition, if there’s a need to add specific automation to develop a certain feature - SDETs are capable of adding it before the final review. Since SDETs responsibilities lie in finding solutions for specific tasks that QA experts are unable, they will bring great value to any team.
Our client gained the following advantages by hiring Softjourn’s SDET professionals:
- Extensive code coverage by using various types of testing
- Minimized testing cycles by unit tests
- Team and individual workflows
- Ability to build, deploy, and test the code
- Automated acceptance testing
- Brings the mindset of a developer and a tester
Our clients are hiring SDETs as quickly as possible to gain access to immediate efficiency and contributions to their software through testing as well as the design of testing frameworks.
Softjourn’s SDETs are professionals with many years of experience working with expense management platforms. All of our SDETs have specialized programming knowledge and experience with agile and DevOps methodologies. Additionally, SDETs have a deep understanding of how to find and fix bottlenecks or thresholds in existing code, all the while developing the code and automation features that our clients request.
Conclusion
As expense management platforms are used by thousands daily, the pressure to produce high-quality code is very high. Developing and maintaining large expense management platforms demands a variety of skills and coordination across teams.
SDETs are invaluable to software development in this industry due to their deep software development experience and expert familiarity with QA testing processes. Interested in seeing how hiring an SDET will boost your team? Contact us for a free consultation!