The first four steps on how to start a Software Quality Team for MySQL Cluster from ground up

On June 2018, the first ever re-organization of the Oracle MySQL Cluster group occurred. As in other companies, there’s a moment when a larger group is broken down into smaller teams each owning a part of the overall process/code-base/tasks. While in some cases the new teams are just a formalization of an already-existent informal structure, in others a new team emerges to answer specific long-term needs.
In MySQL Cluster group, such team was the Quality Team which I have become responsible for. The long-term needs were getting the grips on testing infrastructure, ensure reliable test execution and reporting, and evolve current infrastructure to support developers in creating better tests.
As soon as the team was formed, the first challenge was to define the first steps to start this team. Here are the first four steps our …