It depends on the project. I'm a manual tester who's worked on many different projects. The larger ones have had a separate automation QA team. On the smaller

It depends on the project. I'm a manual tester who's worked on many different projects. The larger ones have had a separate automation QA team. On the smaller projects, I'll fetch the code base and suggest missing unit testcases to the developers. Without writing a wall of text, I feel that dismissing the value of manual QA is like dismissing the value of a business analyst or project manager who doesn't write code. My value comes from helping make sure the customer got what they wanted and it works - and I can do that without writing much code. But that's not to say I don't use tools and scripts to automate some of my work.