[natbennett]

It’s not the “separate” part that I think is ridiculous. It’s the fact that the team is named “quality assurance.” It relies on a metaphor from manufacturing that’s entirely inappropriate for software.

If you want to call it “Testing and Exploration” you’d get no argument from me. (Though I do think you’ll find that team is hard to staff.)

[spinningD20]

I'd call it something like "Risk analysis, identification and mitigation group"