Microsoft
Dynamics
365

Solution Discovery – Establish the goals and scope of the project to equip the team for success.

Technical Discovery – Understand the architectural landscape as well as the integration and migration implementation approaches.

Business Process Discovery – Understand current business processes, fit/gap analysis and potential customisations

Non-functional requirement analysis – Evaluate non-functional requirements e.g. Performance testing, automated regression

Maturity assessment – Understand client maturity and capabilities to utilise and/or increase capability during delivery

Approach – Understand the project approach, explore approach methods, standards and assets for reuse to fit client needs.

Test team on boarding – Onboard the test team (internal and external) to understand context and solution. Setup for prep and execution

Test Planning and Business Scenarios – Detailed planning of each workstream or phase based on project approach, current business flow etc

Test Scripting and Execution – Documenting and executing tests based on business priorities and delivery plan

User Acceptance Testing (UAT) – Prep, manage and support business users to test the solution by business unit and End to End.

Non-Functional testing – Performance test solution and build business critical automated regression suite.

Production readiness – Exit and summary reports. Handover for operational support

Future Ready – Understand and plan for future releases from Microsoft. Ability to run and maintain the automated regression suite, manually test new functions

Integration and dependencies updates – To test and integrate all dependencies to ensure the full End to End process are not impacted

Monitoring and performance – Ongoing performance testing to ensure performance is not compromised regardless of version upgrades fixes

On-boarding additional Microsoft components – Focus on migrating and testing other additional components as they are integrated into the main solution/application