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  • Possible duplicate of Should a developer also act as a tester? Commented Feb 9, 2018 at 16:11
  • thanks @gnat, I've updated; please see my "Existing questions" section and see if you agree that my question is sufficiently distinct Commented Feb 9, 2018 at 16:15
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    Do you need to have independent QA? Do you anticipate the need in the future to need independent QA? One example is in regulated industries - in order to maintain compliance, the development and test must be done by two independent people. That doesn't mean that the people who do the development can't test, but it does mean that someone else also needs to have independent tests, which may be manual or automated. Commented Feb 9, 2018 at 16:18
  • I would like to answer your question, but even with the most recent edits, it doesn't provide enough information about your environment. I also think that your edits about focusing on implementation vs design are incorrect - writing code (whether production or test) is a design activity. Commented Feb 9, 2018 at 19:35
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    In this case, yes. There is no universal answer to who should design automated tests. It's going to depend on the characteristics of your environment. Without that specification, this question feels too broad. Commented Feb 9, 2018 at 20:18