You’re not the only ones doing it. The idea is developers do more testing, they think about it upfront and they have assistance from a QA lead who leads and coa

You’re not the only ones doing it. The idea is developers do more testing, they think about it upfront and they have assistance from a QA lead who leads and coaches the quality culture across the development team. That QA leads embeds the skills in the dev team and oversees the quality. The QA lead can also be freed up to look at quality from other perspectives like is the product actually delivering value to the customer overall. The devs are already working across the SDLC so have the knowledge and the skin in the game to do a good job. It also works more efficiently with less handover which is better for frequent releases vs a time when releases were once every two years.