We hired a guy with an English Lit degree as QA. He was super smart, and really self-motivated. He learned full-stack dev, and wrote a fcking amazing dashboard and test config wizard in like half a year. (This was before AI)

People at that point were complaining about tests being hard to run for YEARS.

He then left for a dev role at another company in a short time.

And “they had huge impact & left quickly” is actually a good outcome right!

Better than underhiring to set the whole endeavor up for failure