[convalescindrey]

Then your developer should learn that "done" means more than "works on their machine".

The difference between devs and dedicated QA people is that devs know the dark corners of the implementation. They know the edge cases and scenarios that they struggled with getting right. That's where most testing focus has to be. QA doesn't know any of that. They can play through some scenarios that are the expected ones from the spec, perhaps have some hunch of what could be the tricky cases, but they don't actually know.

I love seeing all those downvotes for my GP comment. That's all the people working at companies where stuff that devs feel is below them is dumped on QA people, which is the main reason my company is well-known for shipping top quality (without having a QA dept) while our competitors struggle with quality (despite having a QA dept). That's all the evidence I need to back up my claim.

[antifa]

The devs should produce passing tests, not spend hours clicking around in their app like a QA person.

[Quikinterp]

How big is your company and product?

[convalescindrey]

Anual revenue is in the ballpark of about $1bn-$5bn.

[technion]

If this happens to be a reference to Microsoft, their famous laying off of qa people has been regarded as a disaster by everyone outside Ms, with windows update quality dropping off a cliff.

[convalescindrey]

It wasn't such a reference, no.

And I believe it's hard to do this kind of thing as an afterthought. If your whole engineering culture is built around having a QA dept then just firing that dept is obviously going to have disastrous consequences.