Quality Engineer jobs in 2026 — required skills, demand trends, and top hiring cities
As of 2026-09-25, Skillenai has indexed 158 job postings with the title “Quality Engineer” over the past 90 days. The skill mentioned most often is Playwright, with demand down 14% vs the prior 4 weeks.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-09-25
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+How many Quality Engineer jobs are being posted in 2026?
Skillenai has indexed 158 job postings with the title “Quality Engineer” over the 90 days ending 2026-09-25, with demand down 14% vs the prior 4 weeks.
+What skills do Quality Engineer jobs require?
Across Quality Engineer postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-09-25, the skills mentioned most often are Playwright, test automation, CI/CD, Python, Java.
+Which cities are hiring the most Quality Engineer?
As of 2026-09-25, Quality Engineer postings indexed by Skillenai are concentrated in Austin, Toronto, Atlanta, Telford, Pune.
+Is Quality Engineer a good career path right now?
Skillenai indexes 158 Quality Engineer postings over the 90 days ending 2026-09-25, with demand down 14% vs the prior 4 weeks. The skill mentioned most often in Quality Engineer postings is Playwright, so building it gives the strongest signal that an applicant matches the role.
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Weekly Quality Engineer postings — last 90 days
Skills most often required for Quality Engineer
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Playwright | 71 | 44.9% |
| test automation | 63 | 39.9% |
| CI/CD | 59 | 37.3% |
| Python | 59 | 37.3% |
| Java | 57 | 36.1% |
| JavaScript | 52 | 32.9% |
| Selenium | 49 | 31.0% |
| TypeScript | 43 | 27.2% |
| API testing | 38 | 24.1% |
| Cypress | 37 | 23.4% |
| AWS | 33 | 20.9% |
| SQL | 27 | 17.1% |
| Kubernetes | 26 | 16.5% |
| regression testing | 26 | 16.5% |
| Git | 24 | 15.2% |
Top metros hiring Quality Engineer
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Austin | 7 | 4.4% |
| Toronto | 7 | 4.4% |
| Atlanta | 5 | 3.2% |
| Telford | 5 | 3.2% |
| Pune | 4 | 2.5% |
| Bengaluru | 3 | 1.9% |
| De Soto | 3 | 1.9% |
| Hyderabad | 3 | 1.9% |
| Prague | 3 | 1.9% |
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How this was computed
Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-25, matching postings whose canonical role is “Quality Engineer”. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-posted roles).
- role
- Quality Engineer
- source
- Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
- data_as_of
- 2026-09-25
- 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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