diff --git a/doc/user/project/merge_requests/code_quality.md b/doc/user/project/merge_requests/code_quality.md
index 3c6677557873b013edf4699f8dd2c99f4af94860..92681e741de8d056885107acff1a5317e7c4f3da 100644
--- a/doc/user/project/merge_requests/code_quality.md
+++ b/doc/user/project/merge_requests/code_quality.md
@@ -66,6 +66,13 @@ will scan your source code for code quality issues. The report will be saved as
 that you can later download and analyze. Due to implementation limitations we always
 take the latest Code Quality artifact available.
 
+The included `code_quality` job is running in the `test` stage, so it needs to be included in your CI config, like so:
+
+```yaml
+stages:
+  - test
+```
+
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