Testing stopped living in a separate silo.

What changed

Separate the symptom from the constraint.

Requirements and delivery lived in Jira while testing evidence remained in HP ALM. That separation was not only a tooling boundary: QA followed a different lifecycle, so traceability broke and handoffs were duplicated.

Xray connected requirements, tests, defects, and evidence. Testing then moved into one governed delivery flow rather than continuing as a separate lifecycle.

Traceability improves when testing follows the same governed lifecycle as delivery.