The Q&A teams I've seen worked the way you describe initially except they were valuable. They weren't there for engineering, they were there for product qualit

The Q&A teams I've seen worked the way you describe initially except they were valuable. They weren't there for engineering, they were there for product quality. Their expertise was that they knew what the product was supposed to do and made it did it. Things like "unit tests" help development but they don't make sure the product satisfies client requirements. If engineering is really on top of it, they learn from QA and QA seems to have nothing to do. But don't let that situation fool you into thinking they are "just creating noise and taking away more value than they provide"