Should Testers be involved in DEVops?

Good question. As someone somewhat new to testing, I find it interesting that there are some divisions here. There is a concept of “shift left” (moving testing further up the dev cycle) and “shift right” (importance of post production testing).

Each of us may find a sweet spot for our area of preference but in general I have always taken the approach of continual learning and expanding skillset rather than having a rigid view of what has always been done. So manual testers learning about automation and vice versa. Testers starting to learn about new tools and capabilities to test during development and post production testing like load/performance testing. Having a broader understanding of the entire cycle and process will make us all better in the long run.

This doesn’t necessarily mean that testers should become developers- unless they feel drawn to learn development :) But building strong relationships between testers and developers is never a bad thing.

So short answer… yes, imo.