Agreed. In the places I’ve worked with dedicated manual QA, I’ve tended to see net negative impact. It can be like working with someone who has the technical u

Agreed. In the places I’ve worked with dedicated manual QA, I’ve tended to see net negative impact. It can be like working with someone who has the technical understanding of a user, but with write access to Jira, and whose reason for employment is predicated on being a blocker with some frequency. The best places I’ve worked have instead had engineering cultures of robust automated testing, real-time monitoring, and continuous delivery.