June 2020CIOAPPLICATIONS.COM8IN MY Viewt starts with a vision, a leader, and his/her execution team to manage the implementation of that vision.Today, QA departments are tasked with increasing efficiencies around the overall testing strategies in a two-week deployment cycle .Customers just want better products, are fickle to loyalty and can easily shift direction on their likes and dislikes. At Green Dot, headquartered in Pasadena, the QA department has multiple teams across various regions, and multiple projects running concurrently, sprint after sprint. The goal for each team has always been the same, utilize current technologies to efficiently test. Our products range from reloadable prepaid cards, instant pay for Uber drivers to having your tax refund deposited early in the account of your choice and many more. With quick launches like Uber Instant Pay, Stash Prepaid Debit Card, Apple Instant Pay to name a few, managing quality for these features and testing with multiple external partners requires an organized department that paysattention to the details.First, we must understand the strength and weaknesses, only then can a team be built with the right skills to manage the fast pace of Agile. At Green Dot, we quickly realized that a centralized automation team is needed to avoid fragmentation of the code being utilized to test frontend and backend features. Without it, the delivery teams were spending quite a large amount of time maintaining the framework. Thisteam focus is to manage the frameworks, upgrades, and to have the bandwidth from time to time to convert various testcases from manual to automation in order to provide a boost to the delivery team. This team has little ties into scrum teams that are testing the new or updated requirements for features. With a dedicated centralized team working on frameworks the benefit has been standards on framework code, stability of code check-ins, and an increase in automation coverage.Epics by their nature in Agile can and do span multiple teams. The first step from quality in managing any requirement is to identify the requirement and the ITANVI GUPTA, DIRECTOR OF QA, GREEN DOT CORPORATIONHow We Sharpened the Edge of Our Approach to QA and Testing
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