Tanja Peeters

Euroclear continues to develop the Easyway Platform for its clients, constantly expanding functionalities and user base. This involves a large team that transitioned to Agile teams in a tribe structure in 2019. In 2023, the STP/Onboarding part led to improvements in the agile structures.

Tasks, responsibilities and activities - Functional testing of new applications until 2019

- Performance testing (PERFMON/SPLUNK/DYNATRACE/LOADRUNNER) since 2019

- Launch rehearsal + migrations in PIE

- Manage deployments + follow up deployments in PIE

- Manage data: harvest production data, generate with tools

- Support SQL performance specialist

- Global validation during pre-production launch

- Global validation during production launch

- Support production on specific topics (no hotline, no watch duty)

- Support shadow environment until 2020

- Follow up with technical support teams for SNOW tickets

- Support external vendor meetings (Windows, Dynatrace)

Result Taking over the PIE environments (FE/BE), handling all performance tests (release, specific tasks from the teams, technical, investigation). Onboarding new performance testers with a focus on the screens (9/2022). Onboarding new performance testers with a focus on the MQ/XPS part (01/2023).

New development within Euroclear for "Custody". Euroclear is extending the mainframe "Custody" application to a Windows platform. The project team was a mix of internal staff, consultants, and employees from offshore companies involved in the functional domain, development, and testing.

- Functional testing of new applications.

- Coach Indian testers.

- Review TCS/valorisation sheets.

- Manage defects.

- Technical testing XPS + mainframe feeds

- Assisting with performance testing (PERFMON)

- Launch rehearsal + migration

Easyway going live and onboarding clients. Moving away from only functional testing for Proceeds. Picking up some work in performance testing and deployments in IVSV/PIE/PPE/PROD.

The Mistral/Atlas project team is responsible for the software used to plan the material and drivers of the NMBS (mid and short term). Mistral and Atlas are developed by Bombardier (an external supplier to NMBS). Together with the key users, the analysts manage the functional requirements concerning the planning of material and personnel. Bombardier needs to supply a product that meets the technical and functional requirements. Interfaces with multiple other applications require significant attention and are managed in the Genesis project.

- Functional testing of planning software developed by external supplier Bombardier.

- Create and maintain test cases in Quality Center.

- Select tests to execute in Quality Center.

- Execute tests in Quality Center.

- Write and execute SQL statements to search and verify test data.

- Create defects in Quality Center.

- Manage Mistral/GENESIS defects in Quality Center.

- Provide feedback to the analyst and project leader.

- Coordinate GENESIS tests (Mistral interfaces).

- Coordinate Mistral tests (team lead, business team lead, analyst, key user, 3 testers).

- Coach new testers.

- Backup functional analyst, taking over during the functional analyst's maternity leave (6 months).

- Hypercare: user support during training (old and new Mistral users).

- Hypercare: user support during roll-out (visiting new Mistral users in Flanders and Brussels).

- Hypercare: feedback from users to IT management and business management.

- Hypercare: analyzing production defects, generating workarounds for users.

- Hypercare: create and manage defects found during hypercare activities in QC.

Fast switch to a new sector and new technology. Positive cooperation with the analyst and key user.