I am a CTO and have always tried to have the QA team to be part of the Product Office (CPO) . It tends to keep us honest and ultimately it aligns the decision o

I am a CTO and have always tried to have the QA team to be part of the Product Office (CPO) . It tends to keep us honest and ultimately it aligns the decision of churning out new features and building crap in the same team/person. Now, don't get me wrong, my teams always do unit and integration testing, along with automation of those two. Devs are responsible for the quality of their work. But ultimately it os the product team, with input from their QA team the ones deciding if a new feature is ready for release as it is, or needs more polish