QA itself is a process failure. If the testers have ever repeated an action more than twice, they should be automated, and you're back to automated testing.
The only QA I've ever worked with that was worthwhile spent their time writing automated tests - they were programmers concentrated in test. Otherwise, you're literally saying 'It would be cheaper to pay this room full of people to do what a machine can do instead of paying 1/10th their number to write the same thing as a test', which is essentially never true.
The only QA I've ever worked with that was worthwhile spent their time writing automated tests - they were programmers concentrated in test. Otherwise, you're literally saying 'It would be cheaper to pay this room full of people to do what a machine can do instead of paying 1/10th their number to write the same thing as a test', which is essentially never true.