Welcome to DevOpsQA•AI

An entrepreneurial lean startup with 40 years of delivering innovative solutions to banking.

DevOpsQA•AI is our brand, Micro to Mainframe (Pty) Ltd is the company. The company’s name, Micro to Mainframe, is synonymous with what we did. Connect PCs to large IBM mainframe networks.

Then we took core banking systems written in COBOL and shifted them to the PC. Think about it – this is DevOps, in the 1990s. 

The QA part came when we realised that we had state of the art test tools, but no one knew how to test.

We started with AI when ChatGPT was launched. We continue to be enthralled by what we can do with AI, in our business and our services. 

To move IT from being a cost centre, constrained by time and budget, to being a business enabler. For that to happen Business, Dev, QA and Ops must have equal seats at the table of developing software for business value.

For the practitioner in the software delivery pipeline, it is about escaping the daily grind of delivering to time and budget.

Evolving to be a professional where you love what you do, you are good at it, you provide value (what the world needs) and you are rewarded for your work.

It is the concept of Ikigai and finding purpose in work-life.

If the goal is to build quality in, then should we not think about Quality Interventions?

Distinct processes that are neither testing nor development nor operations. Interventions that change the way you work and create a better environment in which to work.

The theory of constraints is about identifying and eliminating what is holding you back in achieving your desired outcomes.

Our service design achieves that – identify and eliminate what is impeding you.

A concept we like is Quality Engineering, we are enabling you to engineer the quality into the software delivery process.

Every team is different. To make this work for you, we have a “Master Craftsperson” spend time in your team, absorbing the culture and understanding what’s important to you and your team.

We adapt the recipes and patterns we have evolved over the 30 years of software development, ops and testing to best fit what you plan to achieve, and how you go about it.