QA Engineer jobs in 2026 — required skills, demand trends, and top hiring cities
As of 2026-09-05, Skillenai has indexed 992 job postings with the title “QA Engineer” over the past 90 days. The skill mentioned most often is test automation, with demand up 30% vs the prior 4 weeks.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-09-05
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+How many QA Engineer jobs are being posted in 2026?
Skillenai has indexed 992 job postings with the title “QA Engineer” over the 90 days ending 2026-09-05, with demand up 30% vs the prior 4 weeks.
+What skills do QA Engineer jobs require?
Across QA Engineer postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-09-05, the skills mentioned most often are test automation, regression testing, Playwright, CI/CD, Postman.
+Which cities are hiring the most QA Engineer?
As of 2026-09-05, QA Engineer postings indexed by Skillenai are concentrated in Bengaluru, Kyiv, Hyderabad, Pune, Chennai.
+Is QA Engineer a good career path right now?
Skillenai indexes 992 QA Engineer postings over the 90 days ending 2026-09-05, with demand up 30% vs the prior 4 weeks. The skill mentioned most often in QA Engineer postings is test automation, so building it gives the strongest signal that an applicant matches the role.
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Weekly QA Engineer postings — last 90 days
Salary distribution
Box = 25th–75th percentile · tick = median · whisker = 10th–90th · USD, annualized
Skills most often required for QA Engineer
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| test automation | 289 | 29.1% |
| regression testing | 288 | 29.0% |
| Playwright | 272 | 27.4% |
| CI/CD | 245 | 24.7% |
| Postman | 234 | 23.6% |
| API testing | 230 | 23.2% |
| SQL | 223 | 22.5% |
| Python | 212 | 21.4% |
| Selenium | 205 | 20.7% |
| JIRA | 193 | 19.5% |
| Manual testing | 170 | 17.1% |
| Cypress | 157 | 15.8% |
| JavaScript | 153 | 15.4% |
| Java | 146 | 14.7% |
| Exploratory testing | 141 | 14.2% |
Top metros hiring QA Engineer
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Bengaluru | 44 | 4.4% |
| Kyiv | 29 | 2.9% |
| Hyderabad | 22 | 2.2% |
| Pune | 19 | 1.9% |
| Chennai | 13 | 1.3% |
| New York City | 13 | 1.3% |
| Tel Aviv | 12 | 1.2% |
| Toronto | 11 | 1.1% |
| Warsaw | 11 | 1.1% |
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How this was computed
Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-05, matching postings whose canonical role is “QA Engineer”. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-posted roles).
- role
- QA Engineer
- source
- Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
- data_as_of
- 2026-09-05
- 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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