Case study · Forestry governance · Devnest
Ghana Wood Tracking System
and its portal ecosystem
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
A web and mobile system the Forestry Commission of Ghana uses to track timber from its source to its destination. Three portals sit around it: the FLEGT Portal for EU licensing authorities, the Industry Portal for timber companies, and the public Transparency Portal.
02 — Why it mattered
It underpins the credibility of the Ghana Legality Assurance System. EU FLEGT competent authorities check licence validity directly with Ghana’s licensing authority, industry players get their documents in one place, and the public can see forest governance information.
03 — My role
Senior QA Engineer | Systems Implementation Engineer at Devnest Systems, as one member of the delivery team. I didn’t build the system.
04 — Technical problems
Four connected products served very different users: a regulator, EU authorities, timber companies and the public. Each had to work on its own and as part of the same chain-of-custody record.
05 — What I did
As part of the Devnest team, I contributed to end-to-end quality validation and launch across all four products. I ran Playwright regression suites to catch deployment regressions before production, and supported data migration with Postman and SQL Server. I also took part in production deployments, and trained and supported end users through documentation and remote troubleshooting.
06 — Tools
Playwright, Postman, Microsoft SQL Server
- Playwright
- Postman
- SQL Server
07 — Result
Launched and in use by the Forestry Commission of Ghana.
08 — What I learned
Testing four connected products taught me to follow a record across system boundaries, not just check each screen: the same data has to hold up for a regulator, EU authorities, timber companies and the public.