Love Your QA Team

They prevent customers like me from finding YOUR bugs in production

Teri Radichel
Cloud Security
Published in
10 min readDec 24, 2023

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In the last post, I wrote about importing the default components deployed outside of CloudFormation when you create a new VPC so you can monitor and manage them from within CloudFormation.

Now, as I’m trying to get work done outside of this blog so I can get back to blogging, I have to stop and write a very quick post about something that is currently slowing me down and led me to a few memories that may help companies and developers improve the quality of their products and code. The quality of your code and your products affects everyone down the line if you produce tools that other people use to get their work done.

Feel free to pass this along to people to help them understand the importance of QA in your organization!

Why you should love your QA team

When I was managing a team that was performing a cloud deployment there was initially a clash between my top DevOps person and my top QA person. The DevOps person…

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Teri Radichel
Cloud Security

CEO 2nd Sight Lab | Penetration Testing & Assessments | AWS Hero | Masters of Infosec & Software Engineering | GSE 240 etc | IANS | SANS Difference Makers Award