This section provides an overview of various roles involved in low-code testing on the Power Platform. Each role has unique responsibilities and contributions to ensure the success of low-code solutions. Select role names to learn more about their specific responsibilities and how they can effectively contribute to the organization’s goals.
While the PowerfulDevs session is more focused on Software Engineering and Advanced makers, by exploring understanding how each role to understand their specific responsibilities and how they contribute to the success of low-code solutions on the Power Platform can help provide more context on the role of Automated testing.
NOTE: The roles and responsibility section is an area under review and update. We look forward to working with you to refine and improve this section to help support the role of Automated Testing in our organization.
Role Collaboration
To be successful in adopting an automated testing approach it can take a team to work together to collaborate and align different goals especially as solutions move grow to enterprise grade.
Represents business stakeholders who have invested in the Power Platform and want to ensure automated testing is applied at the correct level. They are concerned with business continuity, solution performance, and mitigating security risks.
Ensure that makers or software developers in their teams have the required knowledge and training to effectively build and test solutions. They also focus on succession planning and sharing successful solutions among the team.
Low-code maker community who build solutions using low-code tools to rapidly achieve business goals. They may be unfamiliar with formal testing skills and need low-code testing processes to create sustainable solutions.
Review the pillars of the Power Well-Architected Framework and implement quality control and integration with other information technology investments. They ensure holistic integration across low-code and code-first investments.
Implement enterprise standards and make recommendations on how enterprise plans could be executed. They ensure a robust ALM process that includes building, implementing, reviewing, and deploying low-code solutions.
Responsible for the overall Continuous Integration / Deployment process and integrating Power Platform into this process. They manage source control integration, test assets, and quality processes for deployment and updates.
Take ownership of low-code solutions to help them scale across the organization. They focus on the quality of low-code solutions and the ability to support and fix them.
Ensure an end-to-end audit trail of solutions from idea to delivery, with clear records of deployments and reviews. They verify compliance with security rules and processes.
Manage cybersecurity and data privacy, ensuring that solutions do not expose the organization to risk. They ensure compliance with security standards and manage secure deployment processes.
We are the Power Customer Advisory Team (Power CAT), part of the Microsoft Power Platform engineering team at Microsoft. We work with a specific group of key enterprise customers and do whatever it takes to ensure their success with Power Platform. We are a diverse group of technical architects, community managers, program managers, developers, and content creators, located all over the world, all sharing a deep passion for the possibilities of low-code.
