r/QualityAssurance • u/dohenyblvd • 1h ago
PM told me to lie about the defect, what should I do?
I have been working on quality testing of this particular project, and I overlooked some defects during the dev. phase (due to lack of support from the other QA as well). I am the only one working on two projects right now, and I am trying my best to search for defects even until the weekends.
Now, I told my PM about that defect—which our developer marked as Change Request (CR). Now, our PM told me to “lie” to our developer that this defect has not occurred prior.
When I got back to the defect ID, I just told our developers about how it’s not a change request because it’s not even an additional field or functionality that needs to be integrated in the system—and all the logical reasoning for them to accept that it was not a change request.
It just feels hellish when I overlook some major defects. ☹️