I agree with you on the bottleneck. Our QA is split into automation coders/testers and manual testers, the former of whom never have enough people for complete

I agree with you on the bottleneck. Our QA is split into automation coders/testers and manual testers, the former of whom never have enough people for complete coverage and the latter of whom are not very technical and the feature developers often have to walk them through exactly how to test the features, which takes even more time away from core feature building.