The relationship between Software QA Engineers and Developers is very crucial to the success of your product(s) and the teams you contribute to! It’s important that QA Engineers and Developers are building and maintaining trust through project & development cycles. This talk highlights some great strategies that Developers and others can adopt to improve communication, empathy, and efficiency through collaboration. You will learn about some key elements of building and maintaining trust that can be implemented immediately within your teams. It also presents an opportunity to reflect on the ways you've been investing in QA Engineer-to-Developer relationships and assess if you are actively considering how you're empathizing with these roles and providing support to make them successful and efficient at their work. These tips are meant to improve collaboration, time management, code quality, iterative development, and thus, the overall team culture.