Application Tester

• To digitize its public procurement processes, the SPW (Walloon Public Service) developed OMEGA, an internal management tool that tracks the entire lifecycle of a public contract (development, award, and execution), and an EXPRESSUM frontend for communication and exchanges with companies awarded contracts. OMEGA also interfaces with regional and federal applications to offer users a complete procurement process. OMEGA is also integrated with SAP for all budget monitoring and invoicing purposes.
• OMEGA was developed on the Odoo ERP and uses several functional modules to meet business needs: Markets, Purchase Order Management, etc. All of these functionalities are included in a cross-functional platform for internal SPW services, the cross-functional platform named ‘SOOLID’.

Objectives

• The purpose of this mission is to strengthen the Omega team as a functional application tester, performing end-to-end testing including integration tests. This involves ensuring the completeness of test scenarios and executing them, identifying defects, documenting them, and reporting them to the project teams.
• The mission also involves coordinating business testers and transferring knowledge to enable business teams to become self-sufficient.

Activities and deliverables

• The application tester must possess a very good technical and functional understanding of the business (public procurement management) and excellent writing skills. They must also have strong interpersonal skills to work effectively with the relevant departments (organizing, coordinating, providing input, and reporting).
• The tester will be part of the business team for the Public Procurement Dematerialization Program.
• He will also work in collaboration with the quality assurance/test coordinator of the SPW’s Odoo platform and with the various departments involved in the project (legal experts, trainers, SPW SG, SPW MI, etc.)

More specifically, the missions covered by this request will be the following (non-exhaustive list):

• Helping business units to coordinate user validation tests (UATs) (proactively) on the complex parts of different projects.
• Helping business units to create functional test scenarios and structure their tests according to deployment priority waves
• Prepare conformance, non-regression (possibly integrity, load and performance) test plans specifically for the business application in question, developed within the Soolid cross-functional platform;
• Write test scenarios in Xray (JIRA);
• Verify that the functional requirements/specifications have been correctly implemented; and this from end to end of the functional scenario.
• Plan and execute these test plans, and write the test reports;
• Collect anomalies/non-conformities and communicate them to the team in charge;
• Perform non-regression tests
• Monitor anomalies and non-conformities with the teams;
• Compare the service documentation, and more specifically error handling, with the test reports;
• Anticipate the planned Odoo releases at SPW to organize testing accordingly.
• Participate in the testers’ community of practice.

• Very good technical understanding
• Very good functional understanding
• Excellent writing skills
• Demonstrate proactivity, autonomy, formality, structure, and rigor.
• Self-criticism of one’s work method, to ensure continuous improvement
• Ability to work in a team