quality assurance jobs in 2026 — demand, top roles hiring, and related skills
As of 2026-09-28, quality assurance appears in 2,233 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the past 90 days — Quality Assurance Specialist has the most postings mentioning quality assurance, with demand down 27% vs the prior 4 weeks.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-09-28
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Frequently asked questions about quality assurance
+Is quality assurance in demand in 2026?
Yes. quality assurance appears in 2,233 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-09-28, with demand down 27% vs the prior 4 weeks. Quality Assurance Specialist accounts for the most postings mentioning quality assurance (7.1% of all postings mentioning quality assurance).
+What jobs require quality assurance?
According to the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-28, among roles with at least 20 postings, the highest shares mentioning quality assurance are Quality Assurance Specialist (48.9% of that role’s postings mention quality assurance), Generative AI Analyst (47.6% of that role’s postings mention quality assurance), Quality Assurance Coordinator (47.2% of that role’s postings mention quality assurance).
+What skills are commonly paired with quality assurance?
Across job postings indexed by Skillenai (90 days ending 2026-09-28), quality assurance most often appears alongside Root cause analysis, Data analysis, SQL, test automation, Python.
+Where is quality assurance most in demand?
As of 2026-09-28, the metro areas posting the most jobs requiring quality assurance are New York City, Toronto, London, Pune, Washington, according to the Skillenai jobs index.
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Weekly job postings requiring quality assurance — last 90 days
Salary distribution
Box = 25th–75th percentile · tick = median · whisker = 10th–90th · USD, annualized
Roles most likely to require quality assurance
Among roles with at least 20 postings in the same period.
| Role | Postings mentioning skill | % of role postings mentioning skill |
|---|---|---|
| Quality Assurance Specialist | 159 | 48.9% |
| Generative AI Analyst | 10 | 47.6% |
| Quality Assurance Coordinator | 17 | 47.2% |
| Quality Assurance Director | 36 | 42.9% |
| Quality Assurance Associate | 34 | 40.0% |
| Quality Assurance Technician | 48 | 38.4% |
| Quality Assurance Analyst | 61 | 38.4% |
| Quality Assurance Lead | 32 | 36.0% |
| Quality Assurance Manager | 95 | 35.8% |
| Quality Assurance Supervisor | 22 | 35.5% |
Roles with the most quality assurance postings
| Role | Postings mentioning skill | Share of skill postings |
|---|---|---|
| Quality Assurance Specialist | 159 | 7.1% |
| Program Manager | 109 | 4.9% |
| Quality Assurance Manager | 95 | 4.3% |
| Quality Assurance Engineer | 94 | 4.2% |
| Software Engineer | 93 | 4.2% |
| Quality Assurance Analyst | 61 | 2.7% |
| Product Manager | 57 | 2.6% |
| QA Engineer | 56 | 2.5% |
| Quality Assurance Technician | 48 | 2.1% |
| Data Analyst | 37 | 1.7% |
Top metros hiring for quality assurance
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| New York City | 45 | 2.0% |
| Toronto | 35 | 1.6% |
| London | 32 | 1.4% |
| Pune | 26 | 1.2% |
| Washington | 26 | 1.2% |
| Nashville | 24 | 1.1% |
| San Francisco | 21 | 0.9% |
| Singapore | 21 | 0.9% |
| Hyderabad | 20 | 0.9% |
Skills commonly paired with quality assurance
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- Quality Assurance Specialist
- Generative AI Analyst
- Quality Assurance Coordinator
- Quality Assurance Director
- Quality Assurance Associate
- Quality Assurance Technician
- Quality Assurance Analyst
- Quality Assurance Lead
- Root cause analysis
- Data analysis
- SQL
- test automation
- Python
- quality control
- regression testing
- data annotation
How this was computed
Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-28. Skills are resolved against the Skillenai canonical taxonomy, so the same entity is counted whether a posting writes 'Python', 'Python 3', or 'python'. Role prevalence divides postings mentioning quality assurance by all postings for each role in the same window, ranking roles with at least 20 postings. Role distribution divides each role’s quality assurance postings by all quality assurance postings, including postings without a role. Shares need not sum to 100% for the displayed roles. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-requested skills).
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- Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
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- 1907458ce4589568
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- 2026-09-28
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- 90
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