Verto Health
In the winter of 2023, I had the great pleasure of starting my first internship at Verto Health, a healthcare tech startup based in Toronto.
Verto's main mission was to bring a modern solution to the outdated world of healthcare that still saw the use of paper files and fax machines (sadly). Throughout the past 8 months, I've become a key part of the QA team and grown attached to Verto's culture and its people.
Our growing QA team was in charge of a robust automated test suite that ran against all of Verto's technical solutions. The suite was maintained in Javascript using Cypress and mostly consisted of end-to-end tests, simulating how clients would use our software.
Alongside bug reporting, I played a large part in maintaining our existing test suite, ranging from fixing faulty test logic to adding new tests to cover new features. Frequent communication with cross-functional teams was key, especially the adjacent product and full-stack teams.
I also had the opportunity to work on several innovation projects - one aimed to add copy-and-paste functionality to Cypress, a currently unsupported feature. This had previously been a blocker for QA, as it was a common use case for our clients that had remained untested. The new feature has since been rolled out to existing tests — along with Typescript intellisense support to boot.
While I found success in the QA process, I also recently had the chance to embark on a project outside the scope of QA duties, marking the beginning of Lighthouse testing.
A quick rundown on Lighthouse: Google's Lighthouse is a tool that scores performance metrics for a website, including load time, accessibility, and best practices. Lighthouse generates performance reports with actionable recommendations for improvement, making it a great tool for developers as well.
As the company behind over 8.5M patients served using digital healthcare solutions, Verto was in need of a way to enforce accessibility and performance standards for our patient-facing solutions. This is where automated Lighthouse testing comes in.
Fast forward to April 2023, I successfully integrated scheduled Lighthouse tests into our patient-facing solutions to keep track of accessibility and performance metrics. In addition, I connected these tests to Verto's own Lighthouse server so that reports can be stored and performance trends can be monitored.
Over my amazing experience at Verto, I worked with the following frameworks and tools:
