Test Lead Onboarding - Training Deck

Understand the role of a Test Lead vs QA in an Agile environment

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Q: I am a Scrum Master in a scaled environment, helping six agile teams. We have recently hired many Test/QA Leads to join the ART as SMEs. I am asked to onboard them to ART. I have a technical background and feel quite comfortable with the different roles I currently work with. However, I am confused about how the QA Lead role will interact with the QAs we already have on board. I would appreciate it if you could share some general understanding of what a QA Lead is responsible for in a scaled environment.

Thank you for the question.

Luckily, I have a deck you can use to onboard Test/QA Leads to your scaled Agile setup.

It explains the difference between the Test Lead and QA roles by highlighting the responsibilities of a Test Lead in various scenarios.

It covers the following in detail:

1. Role of a Test Lead in a Scaled Environment

2. Key Interactions with

   1. QAs

   2. Product Owners and Chief Product Owner

   3. Tech Lead

3. Key events they attend

4. Example scenarios

5. Key behaviours

You can download the document using the link below.