Prioritise by business risk
Put automation effort where a failure would actually hurt operations.
Quality engineering that tests the behaviour the business depends on, not only the screens that are easiest to automate.
Large test suites can still miss the failure that matters. The risk often sits in integrations, data, performance, permissions and recovery paths that cross several systems.
Select each step to see how we would move the work forward without turning it into a larger programme than necessary.
Put automation effort where a failure would actually hurt operations.
Include APIs, data, identity and asynchronous flows in the journey.
Keep feedback fast enough to change a release decision.
Feed recurring incidents and defects back into the test model.
We keep deliverables tied to decisions, delivery and ownership. The exact format changes with the workstream; these are the outputs we would expect to leave behind.
Bring us in when regression suites are slow, production defects escape repeatedly or several teams own different pieces of one critical journey.
The current problem, the outcome you need and what cannot be disrupted are enough to start.