I don’t see how a development background could hurt your chances. It’s good to already be familiar with parts of the new role.
I wouldn’t see you as a trained tester though. You could be hired for a junior position and trained on the job. Testing as a developer is something different in my experience, especially because you didn’t work together with any QAs in your previous jobs. Testing is a different mindset. Revealing issues in other peoples’ code can also require certain soft skills. From what I heard your salary might not be as good in QA compared to Dev.
Maybe this would be an interesting thread to read: Perceptions about software testing
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