QA Teams and Practices

QA was the dev doing manual testing with one eye closed...

That's not a lack of code review, that's a lack of QA.

You'd think a little QA might go a long way here...

"Isn't that what QA is for?"

Well, the lack of QA certainly explains a lot.

The real disease is everyone having this separate QA step. QA is part of developing a feature. Do it yourself.

You're describing what QA's function normally is.

This is what happens when you don't have a QA department.

I recently finished working as a team lead in a small startup company in a foreign land where I do not speak the language fluently. The entire team aside from one member were unable to speak or write in English.We had no "QA" team. The director of engineering expected us to do our own QA. He expected me to make sure it happened. This project consisted of breaking up an existing system into three parts: a backend and two separate frontends. New technology was involved and parity

Do they literally not have a QA department or what? You'd think this sort of thing would be caught by automated testing.