I’m new to this startup and was leading a cross functional project involving several other product teams with dependencies. When we got near the end with E2E testing, I realized that none of the product teams really do QA: no test scripts, not logs of dev unit testing, no documentation of testing cycles – there devs asked “what do we do about edge cases?” I raised this to my boss (since I don’t manage those other teams) and he said I’m creating unnecessary stress for the teams. Is he right?

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Cont: I did come to him to address my concerns and proposed a way to coordinate a better test/QA and launch plan between the teams (I did have the larger go-to-market plan set). The problem was I assumed each team would be completely QA’d by the time we did end to end testing.

It kind of backfired on me by him saying that I’m overthinking it and was causing unnecessary stress/nervousness on the team and wasn’t a good leadership look.

Is he right?

Does the company have an existing process setup for projects like this where QA testing by each product team isn't required, or have a more informal process for QA testing where they do the work but don't necessarily document it with the artifacts you're expecting? I'm assuming your manager isn't saying "fuck QA" so maybe it's a disconnect in what you're expecting for QA vs the product teams' standard SOPs.

I've worked projects involving Product before and definitely run into situations where the client's expecting something from Product using very specific terminology, Product said they don't do it, and the end result is that Product was doing what the client asked for, just not following the same process or using the same terminology.

Had same situation. My new boss who is high level said same thing to keep all happy vs doing a right thing. In a week timeframe from that, things backfired and beta customers reported issues at infra level. Guess what, VP of Engineering now saying same exact thing to do validation and QA and not rely on Beta customers alone. I am getting same outcome, doing right by the product and customers but when I mentioned, I was a trouble maker.

Lessons learnt. Work backchannel and have Engr head raised if an issue and stay in your boundary. Is this perfect culture and environment when you shot down? NOO... Not at all. I will choose my exit once I find a better fit and supportive boss.

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