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AI learning from job data

Explore job titles, skills and responsibilities from tracked job postings, see salary amounts recorded with job postings, and read research-backed ideas for where AI may help in the work.

Job data is a current snapshot across tracked locations. AI ideas are editorial suggestions, not measures of hiring demand.

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Compare the current job snapshot, posted salary evidence and researched AI-use possibilities.

Showing QA Engineer job-data trends.

Current job snapshot

Job trends and AI for QA Engineer

Across tracked locations · 38 candidate job postings captured · observed Oct 28, 2026

Limited evidence
Candidate postings
38
Confirmed in-role
31
Off-role excluded
5
Awaiting role-fit review
2

Title, skill, responsibility and salary summaries use only confirmed in-role postings. Across the candidate inventory, 30 descriptions were usable; 0 were missing, 0 were truncated, and extraction failed for 8. This is a snapshot, not a forecast of job growth.

What employers mention

Job titles, skills and responsibilities

Counts show distinct job postings in this snapshot. Similar postings across locations are deduplicated.

Job titles

Among 31 postings reviewed as in-role

  1. QA Engineer#1

    2 of 31 postings · 6%

    Mentioned by 2 employers

    Small sample

  2. HCM Test Automation & Quality Engineer#2

    2 of 31 postings · 6%

    Mentioned by 1 employers

    Small sample

  3. Quality Assurance Engineer#3

    1 of 31 postings · 3%

    Mentioned by 1 employers

    Small sample

  4. QA Engineer (Software)#4

    1 of 31 postings · 3%

    Mentioned by 1 employers

    Small sample

  5. Software Quality Assurance (SQA) Lead, Vice President, Onsite#5

    1 of 31 postings · 3%

    Mentioned by 1 employers

    Small sample

  6. Staff Software Engineer, Quality Engineering#6

    1 of 31 postings · 3%

    Mentioned by 1 employers

    Small sample

  7. cGMP Validation & Oracle EBS Quality Assurance Analyst#7

    1 of 31 postings · 3%

    Mentioned by 1 employers

    Small sample

  8. Senior QA Analyst, Privileged Access Management#8

    1 of 31 postings · 3%

    Mentioned by 1 employers

    Small sample

  9. Software Quality Manager#9

    1 of 31 postings · 3%

    Mentioned by 1 employers

    Small sample

  10. Sr Software QA Engineer#10

    1 of 31 postings · 3%

    Mentioned by 1 employers

    Small sample

Skills

Among 30 in-role postings with usable skill evidence

  1. Automated testing#1

    20 of 30 postings · 67%

    Mentioned by 16 employers

    Limited evidence

  2. Test planning#2

    20 of 30 postings · 67%

    Mentioned by 13 employers

    Limited evidence

  3. API testing#3

    9 of 30 postings · 30%

    Mentioned by 7 employers

    Limited evidence

Responsibilities

Among 30 in-role postings with usable responsibility evidence

  1. Validate software releases#1

    9 of 30 postings · 30%

    Mentioned by 6 employers

    Limited evidence

Posted salary data

Salary amounts recorded for job postings

Salary coverage uses only postings confirmed as in-role for this guide. Amounts, currencies and pay periods use the normalized values stored with job postings. The original pay context is not independently verified for every posting, so pay basis can vary. If captured compensation text clearly conflicts with a stored period, that posting is excluded. This snapshot is not a personal salary estimate; we do not convert currencies or annualize pay.

USD per hour

Recorded posting values · 2 postings · 2 employers

Observed stored range

$8.00 – $40.00

Full span of complete ranges in this snapshot, not a typical pay range.

Median withheld because the complete-range sample is below the reporting threshold.

2 complete ranges · 0 one-sided postings · 2 employers with complete ranges

Limited sample

USD per year

Recorded posting values · 15 postings · 10 employers

Observed stored range

$50,700.00 – $235,000.00

Full span of complete ranges in this snapshot, not a typical pay range.

Median stored midpoint from 15 complete ranges: $127,900.00

15 complete ranges · 0 one-sided postings · 10 employers with complete ranges

17 of 31 in-role postings had usable stored salary fields. 14 were missing or excluded by the salary rules.

How salary postings are grouped and excluded

Groups use the stored salary minimum, maximum, currency and pay period. Not all original posting context is retained with those normalized fields, so this page does not claim every figure is base pay. When nearby captured compensation text contains both stored range endpoints and one clear, different pay period, that record is excluded. Mixed or unclear context can remain grouped under the stored period. Currency and period are kept separate; amounts are not converted or annualized.

  • 13 missing salary
  • 0 invalid salary values
  • 0 unsupported salary source
  • 1 stored periods contradicted by captured posting context
  • 0 ambiguous geographic bands
  • 0 source conflicts

Practical ideas, with human review

How AI may support this role

These are research-informed possibilities, separate from measured job demand. People remain responsible for decisions and final work.

Brainstorm edge cases

Suggest boundary, negative, and alternate-path scenarios from a supplied work-item description.

Possible output

A candidate scenario checklist.

Human checks

  • Remove invented requirements and tie each scenario to an accepted criterion or risk.
  • Prioritize the final test set with the product and quality owners.

Clarify a defect report

With sensitive details removed, reorganize rough investigation notes into a clearer defect report and identify missing reproduction information.

Possible output

A draft issue with observed behavior, expected behavior, and open questions.

Human checks

  • Reproduce the issue and preserve exact evidence.
  • Remove guessed facts or requirements and keep sensitive information out of unapproved tools.

Research reviewed Oct 28, 2026.

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