[hvs]

For the most part I agree with you. I will say that I have met those in QA over the years that may or may not have been good developers, but were phenomenal testers and truly enjoyed their work. They loved being able to break things (seriously), but they also were great at being able to document how to recreate issues and explaining it to the developers.

Sadly, those people are not as common as they should be. There's honestly a huge market opportunity for high quality testers and it's not something that requires years of training. Heck, maybe we can solve the unemployment problem by just convincing companies to care more about quality software! ... probably not, though.