Infra QA_24-Q1
Rainier Dumandan
Created on October 6, 2023
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Agenda
- Metrics and Team Performance
- Business and Infra Organization Growth's Impact to the Team
- PRBs into QA Opportunities
- Demo - Network Regression Unit Testing
- Roadmap
- Multi-Stage Testing Model in Detail
- Priority Items
- Q&A
Testing Coverage
Infra-QA Dashboard
92+%
4
~$10,000/yr
Testing Coverage
Test Automation ROI
Metrics
Up Next...
Enabled QA Test Automation
App Support - SSL Certificate Testing
App Support - PGP Keys Testing
QA Laboratory Expansion
Health Check Tool and Power BI Reporting
Tooling Innovations and Standardization
FEB 2022
APR 2022
APR 2023
MAY 2023
servicES
TARGET
Multi-stage QA Testing
SCCM Compliance Test for Endpoints & Servers
2024-Q2
2024-Q3
App Support - PROD Application Sanity
Network Engineering and Security - Regression
JUN 2023
OCT 2023
- Cloud Services
- Database Services
- Core Infra Services
- Global IT Ops
- Application Support
- Cybersecurity
- Unified Communications
TOOLING
TARGET
Automation Framework Enhancements
2024-Q2
2024-Q4
Core Infrastructure and SQL Services - Regression
Global IT Infra Ops and APS Workflow Integration
Continuous
Team Resources
AI POV
2024-Q3
TARGET
UPSKILL
SCCM
2024
Citrix
2024
Growing Business + New Applications + New Team Members == Infra QA Team Continuous ImprovementAres and Ares IT have significantly grown in the last 3 years with Infra QA maintaining and optimizing deliverables.
Business Growth
5 M&As since 2021
Organization Growth
200+ IT Professionals across multiple timezones
Operational Applications
~500 Applications and Services
Weekends Supported
60+ weekend days worked on 2023
Infra QA Resources
4 team members rotating the support
90% in support of Global IT Ops, Network, and Applications
Problems into opportunities
L1 Testing
Infrastructure and Application Stability
QA Solution
Issues and Challenges
Goal
Hardware, Ports, Policy Compliance
L2 Testing
Network Services and Site Certificates
L3 Testing
App Services and User-Facing Tests
Infrastructure and Network Unavailability and Instability
Application intermittent issues
App functions not working
URL blocked/not accessible
Server not responding
Applications not operationally ready after change implementation
Demo - Network Regression Testing
Infra QA Roadmap
2024-Q1
L1 Infra Hardware and Policy Compliance
2023-Q3
Health Check Tool and PowerBI Reporting
2024-Q3
L3 Application Services Availability Testing
2023-Q4
L2 Network Services and Certificate Testing
2023-Q2
QA Lab Expansion and Modernization
2024-Q2
App/Service Owners Collaboration, Upskilling
Adapting, Scaling, and Standardizing QA Capabilities.
2024-Q4
Infra and App Process Integration
L1
L3
L4
L2
Multi-Stage Infra Testing
"Web-Request" test of all application URLs
Application Layer is ready to be tested
Global IT Ops Escalation
Infrastructure Maintenance
Selenium Application Sanity Tests
"Test-Connection" test of all App, Web, and SQL Servers
"Get-Service" test for all required/dependent app services
ApplicationSupport Escalation
Priority Items
top 5
Network Baseline Configurations and Tests
Endpoint Baseline Configurations and Tests
Include Infra QA testing requirements when onboarding apps/services.Standardizing and scaling infrastructure/hardware requirements.
Application Onboarding and Infrastructure Requirements
IN PROGRESS -- Priotize the top/critical applications and services to identify dependencies for operation readiness.
Application Services, Dependencies, and Priorities
Server Baseline Configurations and Tests
04
05
01
02
03
IN PROGRESS -- Develop a Server Regression Test Pack that checks assets for availability, accessibility, and compliance.
COMPLETED -- Enhanced Automated Network Regression Test Pack.
COMPLETED -- Enhanced Workstation Regression Test Pack.
Next steps:
- Continuous improvements
- Partnership with the APS to determine critical applications
- Collaboration with the Application Owners to establish sanity testing requirements
- Process Maturity
- Estate review and analysis with industry standards/best practices
- Standardization of QA Metrics
- Change Management workflow enhancements
- Application Catalog information update
- Service Now QA Dashboard
- Power BI QA Dashboard
- Technology Advancements
- Apply AI best practices across QA processes
- Discovery and onboarding of new tools and solutions
- Is the application URL accessible?
- Is the URL's certificate valid?
- Do we have specific or custom rules to route the traffic?
- These prerequisites will be reusable for Networking-specific changes.
Create accessibility and validity layers acting as "gate-checks" before full Application testing.
Perform verifications on networking components that dictate the flow of information.
How we communicate?
- Application URL is not accessible in a location.
- Service performance degradation.
Issues are not proactively caught/reported until a user reports it.
URLs and resources are not accessible due to outages or changes.
Can't access...
- Execute with confidence and stability.
- Infrastructure or Application issues are isolated and segregated.
- Efficient and precise test results
Utilize the existing QA Test Automation pack to run the application smoke and sanity verifications.
Execute identified application tests.
All backend stuff is ready. Now what?
- Generate experiences with your content.
- It’s got the Wow effect. Very Wow.
- Make sure your audience remembers the message.
- Activate and surprise your audience.
Create a new layer with all the Genially features.
Bring it to life with an interactive window
Got an idea?
- Is the server available?
- Is the server compliant?
- Are the needed ports and configurations accurate?
- These prerequisites will ensure the optimal utilization of testing runtime.
Create efficiency and compliance verification layers acting as "gate-checks" before full Application testing.
Perform verifications on assets that are the backbone of the application.
What users do not see?
- Increased Network Engineering/Security Testing
- Asset to be readily available for troubleshooting
- Use the assets for the Health Check Tool initiative
Provision endpoints in all Ares Offices/Branches.
Increasing the footprint and reach of Infra QA testing.
QA Lab Expansion
- Available
- Accessible
- Compliant with Industry Standards and internal Cybersecurity controls
Verify that application/services components are:
Establish an asset compliance test prior to executing user-facing validations.
L1 Component Testing
- False failures
- Inefficient utilization of runtime
- Induce delays in signing off
Create a new layer with all the Genially features.
Application dependency on Infrastructure may not be fully ready yet.
Why is it not opening?
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- Activate user tracking;
- Let the communication flow!
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- Check URL/Website certificate validity
- Invoke traffic to verify networking rules (whitelisting and blacklisting)
Utilize PowerShell to:
Provide a scalable and reliable test approach to verify Network health.
L2 Component Testing
- Applications and Core Services are ready to use.
- Underlying infrastructure and technology are secure.
- Repeatable and consistent verifications.
- Lessen and augment problems and issues.
Ensure the following:
Consistent, repeatable, and secure process to have services operationally-ready.
Stability and Security
- Generate experiences with your content.
- It’s got the Wow effect. Very Wow.
- Make sure your audience remembers the message.
- Activate and surprise your audience.
Create a new layer with all the Genially features.
Bring it to life with an interactive window
Got an idea?
- Unknown service dependencies
- Limitations and delineation of QA ownership
This impacts testing by:
Applications may be served but not all functionalities are operational.
Why is it not working?
- Visit the Analytics settings;
- Activate user tracking;
- Let the communication flow!
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- Incomplete, unfamiliar, or unknown testing requirement
- Induce delays in signing off
This impacts testing by:
Rules may have been missed or have been inadvertently impacted by a recent change.
It was working before...
- Application URL certificate validity check.
- Application accessibility.
- Cloud applications whitelisting test.
- Restricted content blacklisting test.
- All passed? Then proceed to the next testing stage.
QA Testing Process will include:
Verify that all networking components and rules are implemented.
L2 Components
- Service Now - Service Catalog
- Jenkins
- Cybersecurity
- Global IT Infrastructure Ops
- Application Support
- Application Onboarding
Infra and App Processes:
Seamlessly introduce the QA Test Automation Workflow into existing processes.
Process Integration
Review the L1 and L2 test results before executing user-facing tests.
L3 Component Testing
- Optimal use of execution runtime
- Infra issues are isolated and caught earlier in the test cycle
- Leverage the same test approach for Disaster Recovery scenarios
Create a gate-check to optimize test execution runtime.
- False failures
- Inefficient utilization of runtime
- Induce delays in signing off
This impacts testing by:
Server might not be fully operational just yet.
Not responding...
- Visit the Analytics settings;
- Activate user tracking;
- Let the communication flow!
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- Hardware/Asset availability.
- Port accesibility.
- GPO and Security Controls compliance.
- All passed? Then proceed to the next testing stage.
QA Testing Process will include:
Ensure that all corresponding hardware components are available and accurate.
L1 Components
- List of servers
- List of services
- Other dependencies
- Review existing test cases and create new ones as needed.
Discover the application/service pre-requisites for operational stability.
Partner and work with stakeholders.
Collaboration
- Application service/s availability.
- Application smoke and sanity test.
- Everything looking good? Then the application is operationally ready for use.
QA Testing Process will include:
Validate that all previous components are working and proving the expected end-user functionality.
L3 Components
- Proactively detect issues
- Establish stability and health trends
- Capitalize on constant unattended testing for pre and post change implementation
- Leverage data for AI/ML
Execute the Infra QA tests to catch potential issues.
Regularly test and scan the environment for application and services stability.
Health Check Tool
- Parts of the application to not work.
- User interruption.
Inter-dependency among applications and services causing:
Integration points are not functioning as expected due to dependencies.
It is up but not ready.