I am just curious how other start-up founders are handling this: Once you are past product-market fit and you are shipping on a weekly basis, engineers self-testing tends to stop scaling, edge cases slip, regressions creep in and someone is spending their friday nights hotfixing
I have a few questions for those further along:
Are you doing manual regressions checklists or automation? Or both?
Who is owning the release sign-off? PM, Engineer Lead or nobody?
If you've bought in an external QA help, was it a contractor, an agency or a pilot?
Context: I am a QA consultant working with teams at this stage. So I am genuinely interested in what's working and what isn't working for people here.