Quality Assurance Lead jobs in 2026 — required skills, demand trends, and top hiring cities
As of 2026-11-05, Skillenai has indexed 50 job postings with the title “Quality Assurance Lead” over the past 90 days. The skill mentioned most often is quality assurance.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-11-05
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Frequently asked questions about Quality Assurance Lead jobs
+How many Quality Assurance Lead jobs are being posted in 2026?
Skillenai has indexed 50 job postings with the title “Quality Assurance Lead” over the 90 days ending 2026-11-05.
+What skills do Quality Assurance Lead jobs require?
Across Quality Assurance Lead postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-11-05, the skills mentioned most often are quality assurance, Root cause analysis, JIRA, CAPA, ISO 9001.
+Which cities are hiring the most Quality Assurance Lead?
As of 2026-11-05, Quality Assurance Lead postings indexed by Skillenai are concentrated in Atlanta, Buttonwillow, Charlotte, Irving, Lancaster.
+Is Quality Assurance Lead a good career path right now?
Skillenai indexes 50 Quality Assurance Lead postings over the 90 days ending 2026-11-05. The skill mentioned most often in Quality Assurance Lead postings is quality assurance, so building it gives the strongest signal that an applicant matches the role.
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+What roles do people move into and out of Quality Assurance Lead?
The career-flow chart shows roles before and after observed employer changes across all locations. Counts are moves, not distinct people or promotion probabilities. Same-role moves to another employer are included. The incoming and outgoing sides are separate groups of observations, not a matched three-stage journey.
Weekly indexed Quality Assurance Lead postings — last 90 days
Career paths through Quality Assurance Lead
Different-role employer moves. Each side is scaled independently.
Historical career profiles · all locations
120 employer moves kept the same role.
Roles before Quality Assurance Lead
Roles after Quality Assurance Lead
How to read this chart · view counts
Each side is an independent set of observed employer moves, not the same people followed through three stages. Ribbon widths compare move counts within that side. Internal moves are not included.
Same role means a change of employer while keeping the same role. Counts are moves, not distinct people, promotions, or your chances of making a particular move.
Source: Skillenai talent graph, historical career profiles. Historical descriptions and coverage can change. Only the leading published connections are shown.
| Connection | Moves |
|---|---|
| Before: Quality Assurance Lead (different employer) | 120 |
| Before: Quality Assurance Analyst | 66 |
| Before: Quality Assurance Engineer | 37 |
| Before: Quality Assurance Manager | 35 |
| Before: Quality Assurance Specialist | 22 |
| Before: Software Engineer | 17 |
| Before: Quality Assurance | 17 |
| Before: Quality Assurance Consultant | 12 |
| After: Quality Assurance Lead (different employer) | 120 |
| After: Quality Assurance Manager | 51 |
| After: Quality Assurance Analyst | 41 |
| After: Quality Assurance Engineer | 33 |
| After: Quality Assurance Specialist | 20 |
| After: Business Analyst | 11 |
| After: Quality Assurance Supervisor | 10 |
| After: Quality Assurance Technician | 9 |
Skills most often required for Quality Assurance Lead
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| quality assurance | 24 | 48.0% |
| Root cause analysis | 10 | 20.0% |
| JIRA | 7 | 14.0% |
| CAPA | 6 | 12.0% |
| ISO 9001 | 5 | 10.0% |
| corrective actions | 5 | 10.0% |
| Manual testing | 5 | 10.0% |
| Agile | 5 | 10.0% |
| Six Sigma | 5 | 10.0% |
| Quality Management Systems | 5 | 10.0% |
| change control | 5 | 10.0% |
| quality metrics | 5 | 10.0% |
| Automated testing | 5 | 10.0% |
| test planning | 4 | 8.0% |
| FSMA | 4 | 8.0% |
Top companies posting Quality Assurance Lead jobs
Employers ranked by indexed job postings in the last 90 days.
| Company | Postings · 90 days |
|---|---|
| Assurant | 3 |
| The Wonderful Company | 3 |
| 48forty | 3 |
| Brightspeed | 2 |
| Eurofins | 2 |
| General Motors | 2 |
| OpenBrain | 2 |
| Globalpr | 1 |
| Covenant | 1 |
| JCI | 1 |
Job postings indexed over the past 90 days, grouped by resolved employer. Counts are postings, not hires. Companies without a published page appear without a link.
Top metros hiring Quality Assurance Lead
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Atlanta | 2 | 4.0% |
| Buttonwillow | 2 | 4.0% |
| Charlotte | 2 | 4.0% |
| Irving | 2 | 4.0% |
| Lancaster | 2 | 4.0% |
| Anderson | 1 | 2.0% |
| Bloomington | 1 | 2.0% |
| Boise | 1 | 2.0% |
| Cairo | 1 | 2.0% |
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How this was computed
Weekly job-count charts omit the incomplete current week (weeks start Monday, UTC). Totals include all postings in the stated window. Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-11-05, matching postings whose canonical role is “Quality Assurance Lead”. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-posted roles). An adjusted trend is not shown because comparable posting coverage is insufficient.
- role
- Quality Assurance Lead
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- Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
- data_as_of
- 2026-11-05
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- 90