Aligning DevOps Teams for API Quality with Temil Sanchez

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About this DevOps Toolchain Episode:

Welcome back to the DevOps Toolchain podcast! In this episode, host Joe Colantonio is joined by Temil Sanchez, a Product Manager at SmartBear, for a deep dive into how quality truly becomes a team effort—especially when aligning development, QA, and product teams within agile API environments.

Together, they explore the evolution and surge in API adoption, the unique challenges of collaborating on APIs in agile settings, and the importance of closing feedback loops to deliver reliable software faster.

Temil shares his journey from QA engineering to product management, offers insights on bridging the gaps between technical and non-technical roles, and provides details on how SmartBear’s new API Hub aims to unify teams across the API lifecycle.

Additionally, discover the latest platform innovations, including contract testing, collaboration features, and AI-powered design tools that make API quality accessible to everyone—developers, testers, and even product managers.

If you’ve ever struggled with fragmented processes or siloed teams in your API projects, this episode is packed with practical tips and tools to level up your DevOps practice.

Listen up!

Head over to https://testguild.me/apihub to learn more and get started.

TestGuild DevOps Toolchain Exclusive Sponsor

This Weeks Sponsor SmartBear API Hub.

If your team is building or testing APIs—whether REST, GraphQL, Kafka, or microservices—you know how complex it gets managing design, docs, tests, governance, and collaboration. That’s where SmartBear API Hub shines.

It’s an integrated platform that combines:

  • Design: real-time, collaborative API design using OpenAPI/AsyncAPI, with built‑in linting and governance
  • Contract Testing: catch breaking changes before they hurt production
  • Explore: interactively test endpoints from the browser—no local setup is required
  • Portal: automatically generate and maintain branded API documentation hubs
  • Test: auto‑generate and run functional, regression, and integration tests—built to plug right into your CI/CD pipelines

You get all this power from one unified interface—and the best part? You can try it out for yourself. No commitments—just sign up for a free trial. Jump in, explore how well it fits your workflow, and see where it might save you time and reduce risk.

Head over to https://testguild.me/apihub to learn more and get started.

About Temil Sanchez

Temil Sanchez

Temil Sanchez Product Manager at SmartBear

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