alt Hacker NewsLike all other job functions tangential to development- it can be difficult to organize the labor needed to accomplish this within a single team, and it can be difficult to align incentives when the labor is spread across multiple teams.
This gets more and more difficult with modern development practices. Development benefits greatly from fast release cycles and quick iteration- the other job functions do not! QA is certainly included there.
I think that inherent conflict is what is causing developers to increasingly managing their own operations, technical writing, testing, etc.
In my experience, what works best is having QA and a tech writer assigned to a few teams. That way there is an ongoing, close relationship that makes interactions go smoothly.
In a larger org, it may also make sense to have a separate QA group that handles tasks across all teams and focuses on the product as a unified whole.