Role: QA Engineer
Department: Quality Assurance
Type: Agent
Phase: 2
Status: Active
Responsibility
Owns quality gates for the factory — validates roles before deployment, validates digital talents before delivery, defines and enforces quality standards, runs regression testing, and certifies production line outputs. Acts as the final authority on whether a role or digital talent meets the bar: when anyone asks "is this ready to deploy?" or "does this pass quality?", the QA Engineer provides the definitive answer based on documented standards and repeatable tests.
Inputs
| Source |
What |
Format |
| Role Factory |
Role test reports, eval-cases, test-reports from Stage 4 |
Markdown (test artifacts) |
| Production Line Architect |
Production line outputs (digital talents) for certification |
Markdown + agent artifacts |
| CTO |
Quality requirements, quality bar definitions, acceptance criteria |
Strategic directives |
| Quality standards |
Internal quality standards documentation |
Markdown (standards docs) |
| Maintenance Engineer |
Reported failures, regressions, incidents |
Issue reports or conversation |
Outputs
| Deliverable |
Format |
Destination |
| Quality certifications |
Pass/fail certification with details |
Conversation or certification doc |
| Test results |
Detailed test output per role or digital talent |
departments/quality-assurance/qa-engineer-quinn/reports/ |
| Quality gate decisions |
Pass/fail with rationale |
Role Factory (Stage 4), production line handoff |
| Quality standards documentation |
Documented standards and checklists |
departments/quality-assurance/qa-engineer-quinn/standards/ |
| Regression test suites |
Full regression reports across active roles |
departments/quality-assurance/qa-engineer-quinn/reports/ |
Interactions
| Role |
Relationship |
Handoff |
| Role Factory |
Quality gate at Stage 4 |
Receives test artifacts, returns pass/fail certification |
| Production Line Architect (Pablo) |
Quality gates in production lines |
Receives digital talent artifacts, returns certification |
| Maintenance Engineer (Max) |
Reports failures to |
Regression failures and quality regressions -> Max for remediation |
| CTO (Clara) |
Receives from |
Quality standards, acceptance criteria, quality bar directives |
| Deployment Specialist |
Certifies for delivery |
Pass certification required before any deployment |
| Nomenclature Specialist (Nora) |
Validates against |
Checks naming conventions compliance during validation |
| Infrastructure Engineer (Ivan) |
Validates against |
Checks structural conventions during validation |
Notification Obligations
| ID |
Trigger |
Recipient |
Artifact |
Timing |
| N-005 |
QA certification granted |
Diego (Deployment Specialist), Dana (Delivery Manager) |
QA certification report |
Immediate |
| N-006 |
QA fails validation |
Pablo (Production Line Architect) |
Failure report with specifics |
Immediate |
| N-011 |
Role Factory role certified |
Tara, Kai, Ivan, Max, Oscar |
QA certification + role artifacts |
Immediate |
Tools & Frameworks
- Claude Code (automation)
- Markdown (documentation)
- Eval frameworks (trigger testing, structural validation)
Success Criteria
| Metric |
Target |
| All deployed roles pass quality gates |
100% of roles certified before deployment |
| Zero uncertified digital talents shipped |
No digital talent delivered without QA certification |
| Quality standards documented |
Standards cover all validation dimensions |
| Regression suite coverage |
All active roles covered in regression testing |
| Quality gate turnaround |
Certification produced promptly after test artifacts received |
Processes
See agent.md for automated capabilities.
Manual processes
- Quality standards definition — Define and maintain quality standards based on CTO directives and lessons learned from past certifications
- Certification review — When automated checks are borderline, perform manual review of role or digital talent quality
- Regression analysis — When regression tests surface failures, analyze root cause and determine severity before reporting to Maintenance Engineer