This is another take away from my Podcast "Leading with Quality".
From me to you:
A comprehensive guide outlines how to establish a practical and scalable Quality Roadmap that can be easily adapted by agile teams of any size.
We need to focus on the following four major areas:
1. People - Quality Assistance
2. Process - Quality Control
3. Technology - AI Tooling
4. Vision - QA Ops (Continuous Testing)
Let’s deep dive in:
Create a Roadmap that best fits your company or agile teams. I’ll be structuring mine quarterly, with each quarter having a clear goal, defined actions, and a retrospective at the end:
Quarter 1 - Jan-Mar
Quarter 2 - Apr-June
Quarter 3 - July-Sep
Quarter 4 - Oct-Dec
Goal of Quarters 1 - 3:
People
-Start with trainings
-Connect with Devs over 1:1
-Share QA checklist – questionnaires
-Support testing by adding ‘Testing Notes’
-Monitor and assist
Process
-Pick automation failures
-Efficiency in automation
-Allocate tickets that needs automation
-Monitor release signs off
-Monitor release notes are in place before each release
-Curate & share Smoke Check Lists
-Curate & share Sanity Check Lists
-Monitor
Technology
-Explore different AI tools
-POC tools works best with your product
-Monitor and assist
Vision
-Work towards achieving QA Ops – continuous testing
Goal of Quarter 4:
People
-Take results in from previous quarters
-Allow team to do the self-kick off, asking questions, creating testing notes
-Monitor and assist
Process
-Take results in from previous quarters
-Explore testing methodologies
-Mentoring sessions / talks
Technology
-Take results in from previous quarters
-Integrate the AI tool
Vision
-Take results from previous quarters
-QA Ops
-Collaboration + Continuous Delivery + Continuous testing + Reporting + Audit
Few take aways:
This roadmap is effective for any team, especially in setups where there’s a single QA leader and most of the testing, automation, and product responsibilities fall to developers. It’s a generalised version that has worked well for my team, but you can adapt it as needed for yours
Hope it helps your team as much as it has my mine!
PS: This has been in pending as an article as well for proper format writing, numbers and bullets.
