What QA Taught Me About DevOps
When I started moving from QA and validation toward Cloud and DevOps, I initially thought I had to leave my QA background behind. I was wrong. The more I worked with AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes and CI/CD, the more I realized that many habits I developed as a QA engineer were still useful — sometimes even more than I expected. Here are the lessons from QA that I now carry into my Cloud and DevOps…
In the article "What QA Taught Me About DevOps" published on Dev.to, the author reflects on how their background in Quality Assurance (QA) has been beneficial as they transitioned into Cloud and DevOps roles. The author emphasizes three key lessons from their QA experience that have proven useful in their new role. First, QA encourages a mindset of anticipating failure and considering what happens during and after service unavailability, dependency failures, and under load.
This approach proved invaluable when working with Kubernetes and AWS, where the author focused on scaling, health checks, database availability, monitoring, and recovery. Second, automation in QA, such as tests, validation processes, and repetitive checks, becomes even more crucial in DevOps. The author highlights how infrastructure, application delivery, Kubernetes, and monitoring can be automated to create repeatable, predictable, and trustworthy processes.
Third, the author stresses the importance of reproducibility, which is crucial for testing environments and infrastructure. By using tools like Terraform and Kubernetes manifests, the author can describe infrastructure as code, ensuring consistent configurations across environments and avoiding the "it worked on my machine" dilemma.
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