Goodnight LJ!
For those that are software weenies like myself I just posted this on LinkedIn. Just because.
“A Software QA Engineer’s job is to find bugs. Their job is not to verify that design requirements have been satisfied. That is the job of the product manager(s) that came up with the requirements to begin with. If your Jira tickets go from development to QA directly you are doing it wrong. You will lose employees because of it. Why? Because if QA misses one aspect of a design requirement, they’re in trouble. Now you are pitting QA vs. Product Management. You are setting up conflict even in the best environment. Product managers, verifying your requirements is not my job. I break stuff. Or I automate the process of breaking stuff. YOU came up with those requirements, not me. It’s YOUR job to verify that the requirements have been met. It goes like this: ticket creation->development->code review->product management->QA. If you don’t do that I will not work for you. This applies when the Jira ticket is a functional requirement, not a bug, and was entered by product management. This is a hill I will die on.”
-SB