My current job seems to disagree with you and their point about QA. As far as I've been able to see, the market explicitly for QA Automation is actually growing. The idea of

>Developers are responsible for full test automation and making sure their code works.

Is laughable outside of [insert new sexy startup here], if only due to the difference in mindset.

Granted I'm totally biased as a QA Automation, but the analogy actually removed quite a bit of credence that this article might otherwise have held with me.