QA is Not Final Testing

I see a lot of people (CTOs included) who are still confused about this, so let’s say it again: QA does not mean final testers. Just like many others in the software engineering field, that’s a common fallacy.

A “QA professional” is not a manual tester sitting at the end of a production line, waiting to receive batches of work to validate from developers, acting as a go/nogo gate to production.