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  In Agile, Quality and Testing teams’ roles and responsibilities often overlap. That is because ideally, matrices are not required in Agile Projects. So, Quality teams are often merged into Testing teams for the sake of convenience, though it depends on a lot of factors. Also, as customers are closely involved in providing feedback after every Sprint, even they can be considered as a part of Quality team. In  Agile projects , “Quality should be baked in.” What this means is that since coding, integration and testing happens in parallel, there is no need for quality being checked at a later phase, which in turn means that it has to be maintained from beginning till end, by the combined efforts of all the business stakeholders. In other words, quality has to be fed into a product from the beginning, rather than trying to test it in later. Hence, even a Project Manager conducts a functionality testing if required. Even a BA conducts smoke testing if needed. And even the cli...