Some more context here would be useful. It's easy to assume the request is 100% ridiculous from the PM's side, but maybe the project has seen a significant dec

Some more context here would be useful. It's easy to assume the request is 100% ridiculous from the PM's side, but maybe the project has seen a significant decrease in quality recently. Has the bug rate skyrocketed? Have outages been on the rise? I'd expect a senior level person to be able to identify the warts and put a plan together on how to raise quality as a whole on the project. Educate them on what the right question to ask is, How can we improve quality, and have a well thought answer to follow it up with.