The Role of CIOs in moving from Manual Testing to Test Automation

Last updated on October 18th, 2022 at 05:42 am

Leadership is a stepping stone for enterprises that are moving to agile environments. Testers and development teams make multiple decisions and work with various tools to achieve maximum results with their testing efforts. QA teams face many challenges when they shift to DevOps and Agile methodologies. Enterprises look for test automation companies to keep their costs low and to ensure that quality apps are ready to be sent for production. Following are a few ways in which CIOs can step up their game when creating the right balance between manual and automation testing:

Setting Targets:

Team leaders need to lay out a clear business vision with the benefits of automation and also to support their initiative.  Leaders can align the targets by learning, ensuring efficient communication and conducting cost/benefit analysis. 

Balance Between Leadership and Technical Skills:

Leaders hire experienced testers and engineers to work together as QA teams. Since they have worked in the same environment, leaders need to create a perfect balance between leadership and technical skills. It helps enterprises in making their shift from manual testing to automation testing easier.

Delivering Quality Solutions:

It is important for a test automation company to deliver specific solutions based on the interests of the audience. The idea is to train the product owners and analysts to write acceptance criteria for each user story in a specific language. As the product was developed during a sprint, the test team will use the same language and write automated tests for the testing tool that they will be using in its execution. The test execution will be connected to the deployment of a new code using a software testing tool. To avoid any disruption in the process, the team will build automation for existing software, proving that their plan worked. It will help them in completing the regression cycles and catch up with the work-in-progress that is not yet released. Again, the role of leadership is an important one since everything will be demonstrated, thus creating the stepping stones to have an aligned and connected team. 

Defining the Technical Architecture:

The QA teams and engineers leverage their technical knowledge with the rest of the stakeholders to select the best possible approach. They share their options and analysis with the teams and leaders decide how to take the right approach. One of their key success factors can be sharing their technical expertise to build better products.