The problem is usually in the company culture and hiring process.

Are the QA people & team treated like partners, first class citizens, and screened well the way you would an SWE?

Or are they treated like inferior replaceable cogs, resourced from a 3rd party consulting body shop with high turnover?

You get what you hire for.

The lack of respect and commensurate compensation at a lot of companies doesn't help. QA is often viewed as something requiring less talent and often offshored which layers communication barriers on top of everything. I've met QA people with decent engineering skills that end up having the most knowledge about the application works in practice. Tell them a proposed change and they'll point out how it could go wrong or cause issues from a customer perspective.