{"id":12328,"date":"2018-04-11T11:21:01","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T10:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devopsonline.co.uk\/?p=12328"},"modified":"2018-04-17T09:19:39","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T08:19:39","slug":"qa-manager-celebrates-five-years-at-lovehoney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devopsnews.online\/qa-manager-celebrates-five-years-at-lovehoney\/","title":{"rendered":"QA Manager celebrates five years at Lovehoney"},"content":{"rendered":"
Stepping up from QA Engineer to QA Manager, Julian Bowles celebrates his five year anniversary at Lovehoney by exclusively speaking to DevOps Online about his career and achievements\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Bowles has been a part of the software testing industry for more than 15 years’, with his first taste of software testing being in the form of performing UAT as a supply chain analyst at the head office of a supermarket chain. While in the course of this work, he luckily enough got in contact with the development Test Manager, who was in the process of expanding his team of testers, who soon employed him \u2013 helping start his testing career.<\/p>\n He then became the QA Engineer\u00a0for a software-house who made compliance software for financial institutions. “Soon after joining, I was asked if I would like to write regression tests for the automated testing tool that had been built in-house. I ended up leading a small team of automated testers and also the developers in test that build and maintain the automated testing software,” explained Bowles.<\/p>\n Furthermore, he finally arrived at Lovehoney, which was 5 years ago now, in hope to find a fresh new challenge in the e-commerce space.<\/p>\n Bowles enjoyed all the challenges that he encountered in his testing career, especially learning to script in python in order to build an automated regression test framework based on selenium that still forms the basis of the automated testing we run today.<\/p>\n He continued: “My favourite challenge and biggest achievement working at Lovehoney was when I made a change to the payment\u00a0gateway we use in the checkout for all our sites within less than a month, with no problems when we went live. I also helped to update all the automated checkout regression tests during the testing process which helped the company quickly regression test when fixes to bugs were found.\u201d<\/p>\n When Bowles began working for Lovehoney, he started as a QA Engineer in the tech team, but because of showing dedication to his work and tasks, he now manages a team of 7 QA Engineers, which led to him being promoted as the QA Manager.<\/p>\n “I came into the company as the only QA Engineer and soon realised there was too much work for one QA, so began building a team to help improve the quality of the new live features we released,\u201d added Bowles.<\/p>\n “I do fewer hands-on testing now but still have a very hands-on role in the creation of scripts and maintenance of the automated test suite. We run a large suite of selenium tests each night on our develop branch and smaller suites as part of our automated test environment creation triggered on the pull request. This smaller suite of tests gives us confidence that the core functionality has not been regressed before the manual testing starts on the created test environment for the feature under test.\u201d<\/p>\n‘A new challenge in the e-commerce space’<\/h2>\n
Automated test environment<\/h2>\n