1. Feature Approval

• The Engineering Team identifies the features or bug fixes that are ready to be merged into production.
• The Engineering Lead and Engineering Team discuss and agree on which features are ready.
• The list of features is then reviewed and approved by the CEO, ensuring alignment with business priorities.

2. Merge to Production

• Once approval is obtained, the Engineering Team merges the approved feature branches into the production branch in the version control system.
• Ensure all related dependencies and integrations are considered and tested before merging.

3. Update Jira Status

• After the code is merged, the Engineering Team moves the relevant Jira tickets to the "Production Testing" status.
• This ensures clear tracking of what features are now live in production and ready for testing.

4. Quality Assurance (QA) Testing

• QA Team conducts thorough tests of the newly merged features directly on the production environment.
• Testing includes functional, performance, security, and regression tests to ensure the changes do not negatively affect existing functionalities.
• Any bugs or issues identified are logged in Jira and assigned to the Engineering Team for resolution.

5. Post-Deployment Monitoring

• Engineering Team monitors the production environment to ensure there are no unexpected issues.
• Logs and monitoring tools are used to check system performance and potential errors immediately after deployment.

6. Sign-off

• Once testing is successfully completed, and any issues have been resolved, the QA Team and Engineering Lead sign off on the deployment, confirming that the features are functioning as expected.

7. Communication

• The Engineering Lead notifies the CEO and relevant stakeholders that the features are live in production.
• Jira tickets are moved to the "Done" status, and a summary of the production deployment is communicated to all relevant teams.