Case study · Forestry governance · Devnest
Ghana Natural Resource Monitoring System (GhNRM)
Ownership: Team · Senior QA
My role: Senior QA Engineer at Devnest Systems, as part of the delivery team.
- Sector
- Forestry & natural resources
- Context
- Devnest Systems
- Ownership
- Team · Senior QA
Real screenshot · seeded test data
01 — What it was
Software that aids the collection, transmission and analysis of data feeding Ghana’s Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) implementation impact-monitoring framework.
02 — Why it mattered
The framework monitors the impact of implementing Ghana’s VPA, and that monitoring is only as good as the data it receives.
03 — My role
Senior QA Engineer | Systems Implementation Engineer at Devnest Systems, as part of the delivery team. I didn’t build the system.
04 — Technical problems
Data passes through three stages, collection, transmission and analysis, so QA had to check that it arrived intact and that the analysis reflected what was collected.
05 — What I did
As part of the Devnest team, I contributed to the end-to-end quality validation and launch of GhNRM. I ran Playwright regression suites, supported data migration with Postman and Microsoft SQL Server, took part in production deployments, and trained and supported end users through documentation and remote troubleshooting.
06 — Tools
Playwright, Postman, Microsoft SQL Server
07 — Result
Launched to feed Ghana’s VPA implementation impact-monitoring framework.
08 — What I learned
When data is collected in one place and analysed in another, I learned to test the journey between them, not only each end.