I began leading software quality 4 years ago. At that time the team was running scripts with their own methods. This made it hard to measure quality. They also were testing everything manually. I soon realized I would need to gain the teams buy-in to begin standardizing our practices and using dev tools in our process, as well as learn to do automated testing. Once, I gained team buy-in to us ADO to write test scripts and also gained their buy-in to want to learn automation, I created a strategy and plan for leadership to get their buy-in to execute this. Upskilling my team, bringing in resources with automation skillsets, identifying tools to use for our products, integrating these tools into ADO so we could measure quality, integrating into release pipelines, and identifying the benefits to being CI\CD to provide CT were all part of the strategy. I was able to execute on the above and my team is now automating in 80% of the areas we work in. We are now focusing on rolling out in all areas that QA supports and are beginning to understand metrics around quality.