Quality Assurance Specialist jobs in 2026 — required skills, demand trends, and top hiring cities
As of 2026-08-28, Skillenai has indexed 273 job postings with the title “Quality Assurance Specialist” over the past 90 days. The skill mentioned most often is quality assurance, with demand up 117% vs the prior 4 weeks.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-08-28
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+How many Quality Assurance Specialist jobs are being posted in 2026?
Skillenai has indexed 273 job postings with the title “Quality Assurance Specialist” over the 90 days ending 2026-08-28, with demand up 117% vs the prior 4 weeks.
+What skills do Quality Assurance Specialist jobs require?
Across Quality Assurance Specialist postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-08-28, the skills mentioned most often are quality assurance, Root cause analysis, CAPA, cGMP, Data analysis.
+Which cities are hiring the most Quality Assurance Specialist?
As of 2026-08-28, Quality Assurance Specialist postings indexed by Skillenai are concentrated in Madison, Houston, Orlando, Santi Cosma e Damiano, Columbus.
+Is Quality Assurance Specialist a good career path right now?
Skillenai indexes 273 Quality Assurance Specialist postings over the 90 days ending 2026-08-28, with demand up 117% vs the prior 4 weeks. The skill mentioned most often in Quality Assurance Specialist postings is quality assurance, so building it gives the strongest signal that an applicant matches the role.
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Weekly Quality Assurance Specialist postings — last 90 days
Skills most often required for Quality Assurance Specialist
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| quality assurance | 98 | 35.9% |
| Root cause analysis | 32 | 11.7% |
| CAPA | 29 | 10.6% |
| cGMP | 27 | 9.9% |
| Data analysis | 26 | 9.5% |
| SOPs | 22 | 8.1% |
| GMP | 22 | 8.1% |
| change control | 20 | 7.3% |
| quality management system (QMS) | 17 | 6.2% |
| Microsoft Office | 17 | 6.2% |
| Microsoft Excel | 17 | 6.2% |
| batch record review | 16 | 5.9% |
| Microsoft Word | 16 | 5.9% |
| Excel | 14 | 5.1% |
| Data integrity | 14 | 5.1% |
Top metros hiring Quality Assurance Specialist
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Madison | 7 | 2.6% |
| Houston | 5 | 1.8% |
| Orlando | 5 | 1.8% |
| Santi Cosma e Damiano | 5 | 1.8% |
| Columbus | 4 | 1.5% |
| San Jose | 4 | 1.5% |
| Singapore | 4 | 1.5% |
| Toronto | 4 | 1.5% |
| Austin | 3 | 1.1% |
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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 “Quality Assurance Specialist”. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-posted roles).
- role
- Quality Assurance Specialist
- 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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