Software Quality Assurance Engineer jobs in 2026 — required skills, demand trends, and top hiring cities
As of 2026-06-12, Skillenai has indexed 56 job postings with the title “Software Quality Assurance Engineer” over the past 90 days. The skill mentioned most often is test automation, with demand down 26% vs the prior 4 weeks.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-06-12
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+How many Software Quality Assurance Engineer jobs are being posted in 2026?
Skillenai has indexed 56 job postings with the title “Software Quality Assurance Engineer” over the 90 days ending 2026-06-12, with demand down 26% vs the prior 4 weeks.
+What skills do Software Quality Assurance Engineer jobs require?
Across Software Quality Assurance Engineer postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-06-12, the skills mentioned most often are test automation, Software Testing, Python, Manual testing, regression testing.
+Which cities are hiring the most Software Quality Assurance Engineer?
As of 2026-06-12, Software Quality Assurance Engineer postings indexed by Skillenai are concentrated in Hyderabad, Sunnyvale, Taipei, Edinburgh, Munich.
+Is Software Quality Assurance Engineer a good career path right now?
Skillenai indexes 56 Software Quality Assurance Engineer postings over the 90 days ending 2026-06-12, with demand down 26% vs the prior 4 weeks. The skill mentioned most often in Software Quality Assurance Engineer postings is test automation, so building it gives the strongest signal that an applicant matches the role.
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Weekly Software Quality Assurance Engineer postings — last 90 days
Skills most often required for Software Quality Assurance Engineer
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| test automation | 16 | 28.6% |
| Software Testing | 16 | 28.6% |
| Python | 14 | 25.0% |
| Manual testing | 14 | 25.0% |
| regression testing | 13 | 23.2% |
| functional testing | 10 | 17.9% |
| test planning | 9 | 16.1% |
| Software Quality Assurance | 9 | 16.1% |
| Selenium | 9 | 16.1% |
| quality assurance | 8 | 14.3% |
| SQL | 8 | 14.3% |
| JavaScript | 8 | 14.3% |
| Automated testing | 8 | 14.3% |
| integration testing | 8 | 14.3% |
| Defect tracking | 7 | 12.5% |
Top metros hiring Software Quality Assurance Engineer
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Hyderabad | 3 | 5.4% |
| Sunnyvale | 3 | 5.4% |
| Taipei | 3 | 5.4% |
| Edinburgh | 2 | 3.6% |
| Munich | 2 | 3.6% |
| Noida | 2 | 3.6% |
| Toronto | 2 | 3.6% |
| Ahmedabad | 1 | 1.8% |
| Atlantic | 1 | 1.8% |
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How this was computed
Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-06-12, matching postings whose canonical role is “Software Quality Assurance Engineer”. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-posted roles).
- role
- Software Quality Assurance Engineer
- source
- Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
- data_as_of
- 2026-06-12
- 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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