Individual teams are making strides to have a better approach to software development that is in line with DevOps philosophy. But at a larger scale there are still many teams stuck under a backlog of work or in front of a fire hose of new expectations. One of the solutions we found is to mobilize the QA Engineers to help expand the capacity for cultural and process change.

In this talk I will focus on:

• Our DevOps organizational pattern
• Where is it working
• Where it isn’t working
• A false dichotomy between QA and DevOps
• The cultural shift in QA thinking
  • Postmortems
  • Not about testing about a process that results in quality
  • Producing faster feedback loops
• The technical shift in QA work
  • Clean code principles in tests Simple and focused as possible: API tests, Data Comparisons Minimize use of scripted workflows
  • Environmentally defined smoke tests Focus on reliable tests Clear prioritization Able to run fast
• The results
  • Devs more interested in tests
  • Devs doing more to maintain tests
  • Quicker feedback to devs since it can be run on PR