I’m really tired of hearing tales of QA departments waiting on development and being a second class citizen in the software development process. QA needs to mean quality assurance not testers.
I would love to see the day when QA steps up and drives the software development process instead of development. Developers should be going to QA to ask questions of how something should work. QA should be working on tests before development even starts on a feature.
You can probably pick up on my disgust on this. I truly believe the roles of QA and development need to be reversed and Quality Assurance should drive software development. Obviously both QA and development are always a part of the bigger picture with business stakeholders driving the direction of product and company.