I recently finished working as a team lead in a small startup company in a foreign land where I do not speak the language fluently. The entire team aside from

I recently finished working as a team lead in a small startup company in a foreign land where I do not speak the language fluently. The entire team aside from one member were unable to speak or write in English. We had no "QA" team. The director of engineering expected us to do our own QA. He expected me to make sure it happened. This project consisted of breaking up an existing system into three parts: a backend and two separate frontends. New technology was involved and parity + additional new features were expected. The team was small. Half of the six engineers were not performing as expected for a variety of reasons. This thing broke me. In order to try to attain what he was asking for evidence was required. Screenshots, gifs, explanations in PRs. I was removed from the position of team manager just two months before release and replaced by a native speaker. Yes I am bringing my weird personal anecdote into the conversation, but not having people who were specifically there to do testing was soul crushing.