AMA about transitioning to Quality Assistance model

Ways of working is often fascinating topic to explore. While I was moving from quality assurance to quality assistance, I didn't expect it would change the way I work as tester. Once implemented correctly, it creates a space and mental capacity for testers to do creative, innovative work while delegating day-to-day work to engineers. It helps to expand your horizons, think about outside of the box and eventually grow your skills and career.

Let me explain it in a little bit more details.

Quality Assistance Model promotes the ownership of quality and testing by every engineer on the team, regardless of their role. This allows each engineer to develop code, test it, and release it to production without gatekeeping by a quality team or quality engineer. 

Then what do testers do? Under the Quality Assistance Model, you use your testing expertise to guide and educate the team, empowering and influencing them to produce high quality software. 

Sharing quality and testing responsibilities across the team spreads the testing workload more evenly and gives testers time to:

I am happy to share some tips, specific examples, pitfalls (it's not all flowers and rainbows) and help you understand whether it's something beneficial for your role and organisation. There are a lot of nuances and context matters a lot here.

Ask me anything about Quality Assistance model and transitioning into it.