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Counted October 20, 2026 · from employers’ own postings

Qa Automation Engineer: $127K median posted pay.

From 8 salary bands employers posted on 90 open qa automation engineer roles in software engineering. Never an estimate.

Median posted band$127K8 posted a band
Middle half$115K–$135K25th to 75th percentile
Open roles9035 posted in 30 days
Entry level2asking no prior experience
Remote16%as the postings state it

The ladder, by level

What each rung pays.

LevelOpen rolesMedian posted bandMiddle half
Senior49— (4 of 8 bands)—
Junior2— (0 of 8 bands)—

Levels as the postings name them. A rung shows a median only where eight or more postings at that level carried a band.

Who is hiring

The employers with the most open.

EmployerOpen rolesEntry level
Flosum18—
Air Apps11—
NVIDIA4—
Db4—
JetBrains3—
Anaplan3—
Devsu2—
Evolution2—
Encora2—
Capco2—

Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open qa automation engineer roles tonight.

The skills, as the postings name them

What these postings ask for.

SkillPostingsAt entry
Test Automation73—
CI/CD64—
Git53—
Integration Testing48—
Python38—
Java31—
JavaScript30—
Visual Design28—
Cloud Infrastructure26—
DevOps25—

Where the work is

16% of these roles are remote.

  • Remote16%14 roles
  • Hybrid3%3 roles
  • On site48%43 roles
  • Not stated33%30 roles

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How this was counted

Every figure is counted from 90 open postings read from employers’ own job boards on October 20, 2026, and recounted every night. Pay is the band the employer posted — never an estimate, never a model — and 8 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Qa Automation Engineer (Nights)” counts here too. 100% of roles with this title sit in software engineering, which is why this page belongs to that career. A title gets a page only where twenty-five or more roles are open, eight or more of them posted a band, three or more employers are hiring for it and four in five of its postings sit in one career, so no page here is a guess.