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Management may not see it that way, but a cunning, experienced tester is invaluable.

The nature of testing may have changed.

For one, the approach to testing is different with more smaller iterations and more powerful automation.

For another, better automation has split testing into more of an automated test developer/pipeline plumber part and an exploratory (manually testing the juicy stuff, the boring routine is handled by automation) part.