The recent webinar on using Cypress and GitHub Actions to build an automation pipeline featured Carter Capocaccia, Senior Engineering Manager of Quality Automation at Hilton, who provided valuable insights into setting up CI/CD workflows and integrating quality automation. Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery form the foundation of efficient development workflows, with CI focusing on updating code and CD centered around delivering code automatically to end users. Quality automation is a crucial element in the development lifecycle, offering actionable feedback to developers and improving overall quality, and tools like GitHub Actions, Vercel, and Cypress make it easier to set up a CI/CD pipeline with features like preview environments and quality checks. The "shift left" approach, which involves integrating automation code with UI code, ensures that testing is initiated early in the development process, identifying issues before deployment. By adopting the right tools and strategies, organizations can strike a balance between security, efficiency, and speed, and ultimately shorten the development lifecycle and deploy high-quality software applications more quickly.