Quality Assurance Engineer jobs in 2026 — required skills, demand trends, and top hiring cities
As of 2026-05-17, Skillenai has indexed 323 job postings with the title “Quality Assurance Engineer” over the past 90 days. The skill mentioned most often is quality assurance, with demand down 44% vs the prior 4 weeks.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-05-17
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+How many Quality Assurance Engineer jobs are being posted in 2026?
Skillenai has indexed 323 job postings with the title “Quality Assurance Engineer” over the 90 days ending 2026-05-17, with demand down 44% 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 2026-05-17, the skills mentioned most often are quality assurance, test automation, Regression testing, Manual testing, CI/CD.
+Which cities are hiring the most Quality Assurance Engineer?
As of 2026-05-17, Quality Assurance Engineer postings indexed by Skillenai are concentrated in Bengaluru, Herndon, Hyderabad, San Francisco, London.
+Is Quality Assurance Engineer a good career path right now?
Skillenai indexes 323 Quality Assurance Engineer postings over the 90 days ending 2026-05-17, with demand down 44% vs the prior 4 weeks. The skill mentioned most often in Quality Assurance Engineer postings is quality assurance, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| quality assurance | 134 | 14.0% |
| test automation | 95 | 9.9% |
| Regression testing | 83 | 8.7% |
| Manual testing | 74 | 7.7% |
| CI/CD | 62 | 6.5% |
| API testing | 57 | 5.9% |
| Automated testing | 56 | 5.8% |
| Playwright | 54 | 5.6% |
| Python | 53 | 5.5% |
| Selenium | 53 | 5.5% |
| functional testing | 51 | 5.3% |
| integration testing | 48 | 5.0% |
| test planning | 47 | 4.9% |
| test plans | 47 | 4.9% |
| Test case design | 45 | 4.7% |
Top metros hiring Quality Assurance Engineer
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Bengaluru | 10 | 17.9% |
| Herndon | 8 | 14.3% |
| Hyderabad | 8 | 14.3% |
| San Francisco | 7 | 12.5% |
| London | 6 | 10.7% |
| Pune | 6 | 10.7% |
| Ho Chi Minh City | 4 | 7.1% |
| New York City | 4 | 7.1% |
| Austin | 3 | 5.4% |
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How this was computed
Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-05-17, 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
- 2026-05-17
- 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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