Thaloz

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Product Director of the company

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Technology solutions for charitable food

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Thaloz to accomplish?

• Establish an E2E Test Suite from scratch
• Implement a CI pipeline to run the test suite.

SOLUTION

How did you find Thaloz?

Internal Referral

Why did you select Thaloz over others?

• Pricing fit our budget
• Great culture fit
• Good value for cost
• Referred to me
• Company values aligned

How many teammates from Thaloz were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

Thaloz designed, built, and implemented a GitHub Action E2E test suite based on the Playwright framework for our primary application.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

We have nearly 300 tests and an integration pipeline where previously we had no testing infrastructure.

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

Thaloz faced numerous organizational challenges stemming from external issues on our end, including multiple changes in leadership on our side. Through all they were communicative, professional, and responded in an extremely timely manner.

What was your primary form of communication with Thaloz?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

Thaloz was able to scope, build, document, and implement an E2E test suite with extremely little guidance on a sparsely documented web application. This would serve as a significant challenge to even the most robust internal development teams.

Are there any areas for improvement or something Thaloz could have done differently?

Overall this was a great project. Though we ran over time on the project, Thaloz was transparent throughout.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the HR Generalist of a software company

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

AI Zwei is an AI-powered platform that guides you through the process of making predictions and extracting insights from your data, in minutes, without technical knowledge or the need to code.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Thaloz to accomplish?

• Find new tech talent

SOLUTION

How did you find Thaloz?

• Referral
• Other

Why did you select Thaloz over others?

Referred to me

How many teammates from Thaloz were assigned to this project?

1 Employee

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

Main tasks 

• Supporting the Software Development Lifecycle Process: 
  • Translating requirements into scalable, maintainable, extensible software modules 
  • Splitting software development needs into smaller implementation tasks 
• Implementing Software Modules: 
  • Creating software solutions for the given requirements
  • Covering implementations with unit-, integration- and system tests 
  • Covering implementation with documentation artefacts 
• Implementing Data Models: 
  • Creating Entity Models for relational and non-relation databases 
  • Implementing transaction scripts for relational and non-relational databases 
  • Research the optimization of the current data models 
• Monitoring Products: 
  • Monitoring the cloud solutions in the production environment 
  • Reporting errors and performance issues 
  • Providing solutions for optimization 
  • Reporting to the team members with respect to progress of current tasks and showstoppers 
  • Keeping in touch with latest technological developments 
  • Researching and learning new exciting technologies (e.g. Web3) 
  • Sharing ideas with other team members

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

• Lower defect density 
• Meeting delivery deadlines 
• High availability and minimal downtime 
• Decreasing technical debt, improving the software's maintainability

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

Yes,they also improved their technical skills on the frontend side.

What was your primary form of communication with Thaloz?

Virtual Meeting

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

Their responsiveness and willingness to help was most impressive.

Are there any areas for improvement or something Thaloz could have done differently?

No