In 2015, the Standard & Poor’s Ratings IT team set out an ambitious objective—to tighten the process and controls around the quality of code deployed to production. Based on internal cost of quality assessments, and supporting agile and waterfall internal engineering processes, distinct testing levels were identified to help push quality left and root out the underlying causes of defects as early as possible. The ‘14 Levels of Testing’ were defined to collaboratively span organizational functions, establish quality expectations, and help track towards the goal of eliminating defects....
Adrian Thibodeau
Standard & Poors Rating Services
Vice president Adrian Thibodeau has led the QA & Metrics team at Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services since 2011 and held numerous other roles since 2005. For the past four years, Adrian has led the Ratings QA department in a number of transformational initiatives: adoption of the TMMi Operational Maturity Model, revision of its automation framework, a shift to metric-driven reporting, and the expansion of the team’s quality leadership into static code analysis and data.