#qa

Does this truly surprise any of you? By the time we joined our assigned teams, existing systems Analysts and QA were on their way out the door with a buyout. That was the first of many red flags. We remained categorized in who’s who as systems analysts, but largely fulfilled the traditional “product owner” roles on standard scrum teams. Some years later we were faced with two options when scaling across orgs. Become a scrum master, or a dual-hat scrum master/product owner. The latter option did not exist within the incoming scaled model, not to mention the two roles inherently contradicted one another. A lot of people took the (no pun intended) leap of faith into the new role. This happened in a lot of groups because the younger systems analysts were not experienced enough to take on squad lead roles yet, as those were being filled by the product managers at the director level. So in turn, some became scrum masters, others became squad leads without the director level promotion. Kudos to anyone who stuck it out as long as the most recent layoff. Most did so with dignity and grace, despite being dogged on by their engineering peers — & they did in-fact make an impact on the groups they joined. You will all do great in your next positions, hope you are all doing well this weekend despite the chaos and poorly delivered news.

I am hearing today will be layoffs focused on QA and redundant engineers. And the scrum and product layoffs will continue for another two weeks. Anyone else heard it? Kind of worried.

QA, & DEVOPS get ready for next round. got some time

at least 20 people just got laid off in the QA department (me included)

I’m hating this CIFT team more than ever. I joined this team recently as a Quality Analyst, and people here have so much attitude and arrogance almost all of them are like this. I feel like I want to quit this team or even this role.

My apologies if this already been posted....

How does Optum decide who gets laid off? I've heard most people say it's random but I've also gotten the idea that it's based on your QA.

Have there been any displacements yet due to the centralization of QA?

Why so many QA rules in TAC team? They just focus on case update timely or not. They don’t even have any technical knowledge! Even layoff BB QA and they can re-join TAC team as RB then keep audit TAC cases… So rediculous

Joe is hosting a q&a tomorrow. Who thinks there will be real insight or valuable info shared?

Confirmed, saw a couple of ex colleagues on Linkedin being laid off recently from SAP Fieldglass, QA Team, based in London

Quality appears to be suffering. Non-production level code is shipping.

Was QA and testing replaced with Copilot?

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/microsoft_bug_keyboard_mouse/

Do you think the QAs and testers roles are saved or are planned to be replaced by AI?

I swear it’s like they are purposely trying to get the whole department of wellmed fired so the offshore employees have more work they change the SOPs and don’t update the leadership then flag us because we didn’t do one single step that we’ve never done before and doesn’t even involve HIPAA or verification then the whole department is stuck with low QA and we get chewed out by upper management.

Very discouraging , disgusting behavior

working overtime was a problem before private equity takeover.
But now it is a bigger problem. Without QEs, developer has to do job of two people in same timeframe while maintaining "high quality". This is a death knell because escalated issue, due to management incompetence, has to be fixed by overworked developers :-(