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> Erika Chestnut, Head of QA at Calendly, gives the Dev Interrupted Podcast the inside scoop on successful Quality Assurance.

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Ensuring Quality Code That Fits Your Business

# Ensuring Quality Code That Fits Your Business

By Erika Chestnut

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June 10, 2021

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Modern businesses run on code - and ensuring quality code is crucial to success. To get the inside scoop on Quality Assurance (QA), Dan Lines talks with Erika Chestnut, Head of QA at Calendly about what you need to do to set up QA that works for your business needs, how to socialize the right values for your team, what not to do, and how to adapt these processes when necessary.

### Episode Highlights include:

* How to decide your QA strategy
* What Calendly's team culture does to ensure quality code
* Why QA and business goals have to be aligned
* Pitfalls to avoid when scaling up an engineering organization - and in instituting QA at your org

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