Subway restaurants was recently presented with the “Most Innovative” award for its Quality Engineering & Assurance practices at LiQE 2016.

Carman Wenkoff, CIO and chief digital officer of Subway says in a press release that “Quality Assurance is so much about the value that end users derive from a product. Organizations are quickly grasping that the job is far from done upon the initial launch or eventual delivery of the product or service.”

Robert Warakomski, a senior quality engineering manager told a panel at the conference that he had long seen a noticeable gap between software development and QA, and that QA received little to no attention and discussion at software conferences.

Some of the best practices included in the DevOps implementation at Subway are:

Continuous Integration process for all of the automation projects

In-sprint automation for better ROI

Process streamlining by maintaining test artifacts, activities, and efforts in TFS

Automating status reports to promote transparency among projects

An automation master framework

Payment manager automation