Quality Assurance Engineer jobs in 2026 — required skills, demand trends, and top hiring cities
As of 2026-09-07, Skillenai has indexed 459 job postings with the title “Quality Assurance Engineer” over the past 90 days. The skill mentioned most often is test automation, with demand down 15% vs the prior 4 weeks.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-09-07
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+How many Quality Assurance Engineer jobs are being posted in 2026?
Skillenai has indexed 459 job postings with the title “Quality Assurance Engineer” over the 90 days ending 2026-09-07, with demand down 15% vs the prior 4 weeks.
+What skills do Quality Assurance Engineer jobs require?
Across Quality Assurance Engineer postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-09-07, the skills mentioned most often are test automation, quality assurance, Playwright, regression testing, CI/CD.
+Which cities are hiring the most Quality Assurance Engineer?
As of 2026-09-07, Quality Assurance Engineer postings indexed by Skillenai are concentrated in Bengaluru, Bayan Lepas, Bangkok, Hyderabad, Lagos.
+Is Quality Assurance Engineer a good career path right now?
Skillenai indexes 459 Quality Assurance Engineer postings over the 90 days ending 2026-09-07, with demand down 15% vs the prior 4 weeks. The skill mentioned most often in Quality Assurance Engineer postings is test automation, so building it gives the strongest signal that an applicant matches the role.
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Weekly Quality Assurance Engineer postings — last 90 days
Skills most often required for Quality Assurance Engineer
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| test automation | 102 | 22.2% |
| quality assurance | 91 | 19.8% |
| Playwright | 83 | 18.1% |
| regression testing | 74 | 16.1% |
| CI/CD | 73 | 15.9% |
| Python | 69 | 15.0% |
| Root cause analysis | 69 | 15.0% |
| Selenium | 67 | 14.6% |
| API testing | 63 | 13.7% |
| Postman | 59 | 12.9% |
| Manual testing | 59 | 12.9% |
| JIRA | 59 | 12.9% |
| SQL | 56 | 12.2% |
| JavaScript | 56 | 12.2% |
| Java | 55 | 12.0% |
Top metros hiring Quality Assurance Engineer
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Bengaluru | 10 | 2.2% |
| Bayan Lepas | 9 | 2.0% |
| Bangkok | 8 | 1.7% |
| Hyderabad | 8 | 1.7% |
| Lagos | 7 | 1.5% |
| Toronto | 6 | 1.3% |
| Hamburg | 5 | 1.1% |
| Madison | 5 | 1.1% |
| Singapore | 5 | 1.1% |
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How this was computed
Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-07, matching postings whose canonical role is “Quality Assurance Engineer”. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-posted roles).
- role
- Quality Assurance Engineer
- source
- Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
- data_as_of
- 2026-09-07
- 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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