Modern QA strategies go beyond bug hunting best practices and have become in-depth philosophical, methodological cultures precisely crafted to an individual business’s goals. For brands that want high-quality digital products, QA is a critical tool in all parts of the dev cycle and the CI/CD pipeline. As a new year promises new challenges, products, and shifting consumer demands, technicality, functionality, and thorough QA will be critical to business success.

As diversity initiatives are top of mind entering 2022, companies are hungry to acquire and retain more female talent in QA. A recent Traliant and World Business Research survey of 300 US organizations across industries reported 89% of companies having a formal DEI strategy in place and 79% allocating more budget and/or resources to DEI in 2022 than in 2021. Implementing a distributed workforce is an emerging yet critical tool for acquiring female QA talent.

Fintechs are rapidly expanding their offerings to align with consumers who want to invest, manage, and diversify their portfolios with digital-first micro-investing apps, tools, and non-traditional asset classes.

Even when seamlessly combining manual and automated approaches, testing every functional combination within web or mobile applications is challenging. Unfortunately, this means critical issues inevitably go undetected and make their way into the hands of your customers. We strive for perfect code, perfect releases, and perfect apps, but alas, perfection is a myth. With that in mind, if you cannot catch every issue before a release, at least you can take the proper steps to limit them.

Late October, the Catalyze Tech Coalition released the Action to Catalyze Tech (ACT) report, which outlined best practices, accountability measures, and systemic changes needed to support workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion in the tech industry.

Testlio’s vision is imagining software experiences that energize the world. It’s a big vision and a big reason why companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Netflix, SAP, and ViacomCBS work with Testlio. This vision signals a responsibility that goes beyond delivering best-in-class testing services, bringing together a global network of expert testers, and building a platform that enables a new way of testing.

Testlio is a globally distributed company with over 150 TestLions working from more than 20 countries around the world 🌍. While many companies had to quickly transition to a remote model in 2020, at Testlio it has always worked this way — we’ve been distributed by design ever since we started back in 2013. So, what is it like working in a distributed-by-design culture?

In the face of increased demand and competition, software development teams are expected to iterate faster each project sprint. Iterating faster creates a market advantage because it means you can adjust quickly to evolving market conditions, changing end-user sentiment, and an unforeseeable black swan (like a global pandemic). However, increased software delivery speed cannot come at the expense of a high-quality end-user experience.