Adam Ilyas

Adam Ilyas

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Grab - Things I do

Posted on August 21, 2021

Promote team culture

I try to continously promote a culture of test driven development and testable code/system to ensure the correctness of the system is maintained

  • Ensure each business logic has corresponding unit test, to ensure that the logic is maintained.
  • Added automated test mechanisms for invoicing workflows, this reduces engineering effort in the long run
  • Housekeeping: such as ensuring API tests and Unit test coverage to be above OE Scorecard standards.
  • Improve API tests from 20 percent to 75 percent and improved Unit test coverage to be consistently above 70 percent
  • Implemented test feature flags to allow testing on prod e.g. this is inline with trying to push for a testable system

Improve the processes/ operationalisation of the dev team

  • Pushed for each code release to prod from a monthly basis to a biweekly basis. Since staging and production are more closely matching, the team would have more confidence to test and push code to production
  • Ensured each code push is reviewed within the same day
  • Promoted documentation of planning and implementations
  • Promoted and coordinated release readiness data checks

Improve operationalisation/ observability of service

  • add alerts via email and slack to alert if error is higher than normal
  • maintain system dasboard for various metrics, such as latency, error count and percentage
  • logged various classification of errors for easier root cause analysis