DeviQA has restructured its internal QA mentoring system as part of a broader effort to institutionalize quality expertise and reduce dependency on individual experience within delivery teams.

Rather than focusing on one-to-one knowledge transfer, the updated mentoring system is designed to formalize how testing judgment, risk evaluation, and delivery decisions are developed and reinforced across projects. The initiative addresses a common challenge in scaling QA organizations: preserving depth of expertise while growing distributed teams.

According to DeviQA, internal analysis revealed that quality gaps most often emerge not from missing test cases, but from inconsistent decision-making under delivery pressure. The revised mentoring system therefore places emphasis on how QA engineers reason about scope, prioritize risk, and adapt testing strategies to different product and release contexts.

“As products scale, quality cannot rely on individual intuition alone,” said Dmitry Reznik, co-founder & CTO, at DeviQA. “Mentoring must evolve from informal guidance into a structured mechanism that shapes how decisions are made across the organization.”

A system-level approach to mentoring

The redesigned model introduces shared mentoring principles applied across teams, including:

  • contextual review of testing strategies during active delivery

  • guided analysis of production incidents and near-miss releases

  • structured peer discussions around trade-offs between speed and coverage

  • continuous calibration of quality standards across projects

Senior QA specialists act as mentors across multiple teams, providing an external perspective while remaining closely aligned with delivery realities.

Supporting long-term product delivery

DeviQA notes that the updated mentoring system is particularly relevant for long-term product development, where team composition evolves over time and maintaining consistent quality standards becomes increasingly complex. By embedding mentoring into day-to-day delivery rather than isolating it as a training activity, the company aims to strengthen quality ownership at scale.

The mentoring redesign reflects DeviQA’s broader view of quality assurance as a discipline that depends as much on structured thinking and decision-making as on tools or test coverage.

About DeviQA

DeviQA is an established software testing partner with 15+ years of experience, delivering QA services for 500+ digital products across North America and Europe. With a team of 250+ QA engineers and access to a 4,000+ tester community, DeviQA helps product companies improve release predictability, reduce production risk, and scale quality practices across SaaS, FinTech QA, HealthTech, and other technology-driven industries.