Manual QA Engineer jobs in 2026 — required skills, demand trends, and top hiring cities
As of 2026-08-28, Skillenai has indexed 66 job postings with the title “Manual QA Engineer” over the past 90 days. The skill mentioned most often is JIRA, with demand down 32% vs the prior 4 weeks.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-08-28
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+How many Manual QA Engineer jobs are being posted in 2026?
Skillenai has indexed 66 job postings with the title “Manual QA Engineer” over the 90 days ending 2026-08-28, with demand down 32% vs the prior 4 weeks.
+What skills do Manual QA Engineer jobs require?
Across Manual QA Engineer postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-08-28, the skills mentioned most often are JIRA, SQL, Manual testing, API testing, Confluence.
+Which cities are hiring the most Manual QA Engineer?
As of 2026-08-28, Manual QA Engineer postings indexed by Skillenai are concentrated in Gurugram, Kaunas, Kuala Lumpur, Prague, Riga.
+Is Manual QA Engineer a good career path right now?
Skillenai indexes 66 Manual QA Engineer postings over the 90 days ending 2026-08-28, with demand down 32% vs the prior 4 weeks. The skill mentioned most often in Manual QA Engineer postings is JIRA, so building it gives the strongest signal that an applicant matches the role.
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Weekly Manual QA Engineer postings — last 90 days
Skills most often required for Manual QA Engineer
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| JIRA | 35 | 53.0% |
| SQL | 28 | 42.4% |
| Manual testing | 28 | 42.4% |
| API testing | 28 | 42.4% |
| Confluence | 24 | 36.4% |
| Postman | 23 | 34.8% |
| regression testing | 22 | 33.3% |
| test documentation | 21 | 31.8% |
| Test cases | 20 | 30.3% |
| test plans | 19 | 28.8% |
| functional testing | 17 | 25.8% |
| TestRail | 16 | 24.2% |
| integration testing | 16 | 24.2% |
| defect tracking | 15 | 22.7% |
| web application testing | 13 | 19.7% |
Top metros hiring Manual QA Engineer
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Gurugram | 2 | 3.0% |
| Kaunas | 2 | 3.0% |
| Kuala Lumpur | 2 | 3.0% |
| Prague | 2 | 3.0% |
| Riga | 2 | 3.0% |
| Tel Aviv | 2 | 3.0% |
| Vilnius | 2 | 3.0% |
| Armenia | 1 | 1.5% |
| Athens | 1 | 1.5% |
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How this was computed
Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-08-28, matching postings whose canonical role is “Manual QA Engineer”. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-posted roles).
- role
- Manual QA Engineer
- source
- Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
- data_as_of
- 2026-08-28
- window_days
- 90
The demand, skills, and geo numbers on this page come from the same Skillenai labor market index that powers our API. Use it for compensation benchmarking, hiring-competition analysis, and skill-adoption tracking.
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