Technology

Software Quality Assurance Analyst and Tester in the United States

121 postings read · sampled 2026-10-01 · source ats · 44 employers · largest 13% of it

What employers actually ask for

Credentials named in the 121 postings we read, ranked by how many mentioned each one.

Bachelor's DegreeAccredited institution
15%
18 of 121 postingsAccredited institution →
Secret Security ClearanceU.S. Government (DCSA)
8%
10 of 121 postingsU.S. Government (DCSA) →

Lower signal for this role

Credentials that barely appeared in this sample. That is not a claim they are worthless — plenty are valuable for a different job, a different city, or a promotion later. It is a claim that employers here mostly did not ask.

Associate DegreeAccredited institution
1%
1 of 121 postingsAccredited institution →
CWIAmerican Welding Society
1%
1 of 121 postings$1,150 exam · fee checked 2026-08~200 hrs prepAmerican Welding Society →
Master's DegreeAccredited institution
3%
4 of 121 postingsAccredited institution →
TS/SCIU.S. Government (DCSA)
5%
6 of 121 postingsU.S. Government (DCSA) →

What the official taxonomy says

O*NET surveys people already doing this job. That describes who got hired over a long window, not what employers are asking for now — where it disagrees with the counts above, the counts are the more current answer.

Education reported by people doing this job

50%reported bachelor’s degree

Bachelor’s degree50%
Associate’s degree or other 2-year degree26%
Post-secondary certificate9%

Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed. Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.

O*NET 15-1253.00 · pulled 2026-10-01 · percentages are of surveyed workers, each rounded separately, so they need not total 100

What it pays

BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. A different survey from the postings above, so the two do not share a sample.

$61,440

10th percentile

$104,300

median

$167,010

90th percentile

Who was hiring

Employers with at least one matching posting in this sample.

Anduril Industries · SpaceX · Artech Information System · Idealforce LLC · Infojini Inc · Rocket Lab · System Canada Technologies · USM · Ask IT Consulting · Coinbase · Fivetran · Upgrade · Zoox · Astranis · Bosch · Collabera · Deegit Inc · Harbinger Motors · Lucid Motors · Lyft · Nimble Robotics · PsiQuantum · Saronic · vTech Solution · 360 IT Professionals · Advanced Technology Group · Affirm · Cloudflare · Cognition · Cribl · Discord · Epirus · Etched · Ingram Barge Company · IonQ · Klaviyo · Latitude Inc · NielsenIQ · Oura · Pinterest · Sonsoft Inc · Stripe · Ursa Major Technologies · Verkada