Should testers be part of a squad/feature team?

[jesper (Jesper Ottosen)]

Also being discussed here:

Possible reorg to put QA testers in Dev groups

After years of being in a separate QA team, there is a plan to move all of us to be a part of Development teams. We have been working on specific projects, but often straddle different teams for testing integrated systems or perform deployment tests. My concern is that although the message is that we are moving testing to the left, there still seems to be an emphasis on QA being responsible for all quality, to the point where Developers don’t really create efficient tests. I am wondering if I wi…

We often discuss where the “testing people” fit into the organisation – are they part of a delivery team or an enablement team independently of the delivery teams? I have used the Team Topologies model (a model of organizing software teams for FLOW) to articulate the where the testers fit in:

Where Does Testers Fit In?