Quality Assurance Technician jobs in 2026 — required skills, demand trends, and top hiring cities
As of 2026-11-04, Skillenai has indexed 152 job postings with the title “Quality Assurance Technician” over the past 90 days. The skill mentioned most often is quality assurance.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-11-04
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Frequently asked questions about Quality Assurance Technician jobs
+How many Quality Assurance Technician jobs are being posted in 2026?
Skillenai has indexed 152 job postings with the title “Quality Assurance Technician” over the 90 days ending 2026-11-04.
+What skills do Quality Assurance Technician jobs require?
Across Quality Assurance Technician postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-11-04, the skills mentioned most often are quality assurance, Microsoft Office, HACCP, quality control, food safety.
+Which cities are hiring the most Quality Assurance Technician?
As of 2026-11-04, Quality Assurance Technician postings indexed by Skillenai are concentrated in Attica, Burnsville, Houston, Oklahoma City, Santa Fe Springs.
+Is Quality Assurance Technician a good career path right now?
Skillenai indexes 152 Quality Assurance Technician postings over the 90 days ending 2026-11-04. The skill mentioned most often in Quality Assurance Technician 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 Technician?
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 Technician postings — last 90 days
Career paths through Quality Assurance Technician
Different-role employer moves. Each side is scaled independently.
Historical career profiles · all locations
180 employer moves kept the same role.
Roles before Quality Assurance Technician
Roles after Quality Assurance Technician
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 Technician (different employer) | 180 |
| Before: Quality Assurance Specialist | 35 |
| Before: Quality Control Technician | 26 |
| Before: Quality Technician | 22 |
| Before: Laboratory Technician | 20 |
| Before: Customer Service Representative | 17 |
| Before: Quality Assurance Inspector | 15 |
| After: Quality Assurance Technician (different employer) | 180 |
| After: Quality Assurance Specialist | 39 |
| After: Quality Assurance Supervisor | 21 |
| After: Quality Assurance | 19 |
| After: Quality Assurance Manager | 15 |
| After: Software Engineer | 13 |
| After: Quality Assurance Analyst | 13 |
| After: Quality Assurance Engineer | 12 |
Skills most often required for Quality Assurance Technician
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| quality assurance | 55 | 36.2% |
| Microsoft Office | 28 | 18.4% |
| HACCP | 23 | 15.1% |
| quality control | 22 | 14.5% |
| food safety | 22 | 14.5% |
| calibration | 19 | 12.5% |
| Root cause analysis | 19 | 12.5% |
| GMP | 19 | 12.5% |
| corrective actions | 17 | 11.2% |
| Data Entry | 15 | 9.9% |
| calipers | 13 | 8.6% |
| good manufacturing practices (GMP) | 12 | 7.9% |
| Data analysis | 12 | 7.9% |
| standard operating procedures (SOPs) | 12 | 7.9% |
| Inspection | 11 | 7.2% |
Top companies posting Quality Assurance Technician jobs
Employers ranked by indexed job postings in the last 90 days.
| Company | Postings · 90 days |
|---|---|
| Trojan Battery Company | 9 |
| Actalent | 8 |
| Amcor | 7 |
| CHG | 5 |
| Hourly-nationalbeef | 5 |
| Strive Pharmacy | 5 |
| Cornerstone Building Brands | 5 |
| Nortekinc | 4 |
| Globalpr | 3 |
| Greenthumbindustries | 3 |
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 Technician
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Attica | 3 | 2.0% |
| Burnsville | 3 | 2.0% |
| Houston | 3 | 2.0% |
| Oklahoma City | 3 | 2.0% |
| Santa Fe Springs | 3 | 2.0% |
| Atlanta | 2 | 1.3% |
| Auburndale | 2 | 1.3% |
| Carrollton | 2 | 1.3% |
| Denver | 2 | 1.3% |
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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 2026-11-04, matching postings whose canonical role is “Quality Assurance Technician”. 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 Technician
- source
- Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
- data_as_of
- 2026-11-04
- window_days
- 90