If your devs aren't good what are the chances of your QA team being good enough to make up for their short comings? The dynamics laid out by the parent comment

If your devs aren't good what are the chances of your QA team being good enough to make up for their short comings? The dynamics laid out by the parent comment will just hit even harder. Your best bet is to enforce basic practices like continuous integration, coverage goals and maybe a coverage ratchet as a merge gate. Training and education on areas were the team is weak is also a must.