Is your next release actually ready to ship?

Do your critical user journeys have documented, repeatable test cases — or does coverage live mostly in one tester's head?

Is a full regression pass run before every release, or only when someone remembers to?

When a defect reaches production, do you find out within a day — or does it usually surface through user complaints?

What share of your regression suite is automated rather than run by hand?

When the UI changes, do your automated tests keep working — or do they break and need rewriting?

Are your automated suites wired into CI and run on every build, or run manually now and then?

Have you load-tested your critical paths under expected peak traffic in the last 6 months?

Has this release had a security-focused QA pass, or only functional testing?

Do you know your system's actual breaking point under load, or just that it "seems fine" in normal use?

Is QA capacity keeping pace with release velocity, or is QA the thing slowing releases down?

If you needed another QA engineer next month, do you have a fast path — or would it take a standard hiring cycle?

Is there a clear, criteria-based go/no-go signal before each release, or is it mostly a judgment call?

If this release breaks something in production, how quickly would you know and be able to roll back?