I think that's a compensation problem more than anything else. I've known some QA folks who enjoyed QA and would have stayed in that role if they could have jus

I think that's a compensation problem more than anything else. I've known some QA folks who enjoyed QA and would have stayed in that role if they could have justified the massive differential in comp between QA and SWE or product development. If we valued QA and compensated it at the same level we do those other roles then there would be a lot less difficulty retaining good QA folks.