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Idk, QA Automation is growing but that has rapidly replaced TONS of "follow the procedure by hand" type QA specialists. People who knew how to write procedures well and document executing them well are disappearing in droves to 1-2 people who write QA Automation scripts in Selenium or something.

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Yeah I can definitely see that side of things. The manual aspect of QA is definitely reducing, though I would hesitate to call it entirely dead. I love the fact that I've got experienced manuals who are able to craft well written procedures that I can automate.

There are more and more opportunities for QA Automation with the ability to write those procedures, which I suspect are the ones replacing the manual QA specialists you reference.

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