Being embedded in the engineering team doesnt mean QA engineer knows about the design or the code. When I had one in my team, i found their input very valuable

Being embedded in the engineering team doesnt mean QA engineer knows about the design or the code. When I had one in my team, i found their input very valuable in devising a general test plan to go with the release strategy and ensuring quality standards were met, not by writing tests necessarily, but also things like API or CLIs usability, documentations etc.