This is my favorite high powered individual at a company trope.

Hey you, yeah you with no power to change or order people around, yeah, you go ahead and do my job with no new tools or authority.

I have had so many CTOs tell me that I should go tell an entire department to change their entire goal system because of something they want done, but do not want to deliver any thought process of how that's going to happen or are willing to put in any effort to idk, move the gigantic ship they have in motion.

And of course, the blame only goes one direction in such a bad org, tbqh the QA person probably is happier literally anywhere else.