What Is Quality Assurance? | QA Life Cycle | Smoke Testing & Exploratory Testing

Tatiana is the QA Team Lead at Turing and has 17+ years of experience in Quality Assurance. In this chapter of Turing Dev Talks, she walks us through the Quality Assurance cycle, helps us understand smoke testing, exploratory testing, and the importance of testing a product before deployment.

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1:16 - Experience of working at Turing
5:42 - Quality Assurance and QA Cycle
12:31 - Importance of testing before deployment
22:49 - Collaborating with cross-functional teams
28:22 - Smoke tests and exploratory tests
35:19 - Why exploratory tests aren't popular amongst developers
37:28 - Exploratory testing at Turing
38:51 - Tools for Quality Assurance
48:26 - Conversation with developers after finding escaped defects
56:53 - Challenges in collaboration as a woman in a leadership role
1:02:47 - How QA engineers can enhance the quality of a product

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