# Market evidence report — quality-engineer

Source: **43 real job ads** (JSearch API, countries: us 43), extracted into the MSSQL evidence store; as of 2026-07-19.
This report contains extracted, aggregated facts only — no ad text is
reproduced (copyright / platform terms).

## Seniority distribution

| Seniority | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|
| mid | 33 | 77 % |
| senior | 8 | 19 % |
| junior | 2 | 5 % |

## Tools — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Microsoft Office | 5 | 12 % |
| 2 | Microsoft Excel | 4 | 9 % |
| 3 | Minitab | 3 | 7 % |

## Hard skills — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | data analysis | 17 | 40 % |
| 2 | corrective action implementation | 16 | 37 % |
| 3 | root cause analysis | 16 | 37 % |
| 4 | process improvement | 12 | 28 % |
| 5 | quality assurance | 11 | 26 % |
| 6 | risk assessment | 6 | 14 % |
| 7 | statistical analysis | 6 | 14 % |
| 8 | auditing | 5 | 12 % |
| 9 | inspection | 5 | 12 % |
| 10 | internal auditing | 5 | 12 % |
| 11 | continuous improvement | 4 | 9 % |
| 12 | problem solving | 4 | 9 % |
| 13 | quality control | 4 | 9 % |
| 14 | quality engineering | 4 | 9 % |
| 15 | risk management | 4 | 9 % |
| 16 | statistical process control | 4 | 9 % |
| 17 | failure analysis | 3 | 7 % |
| 18 | process auditing | 3 | 7 % |
| 19 | quality improvement | 3 | 7 % |
| 20 | root cause investigation | 3 | 7 % |
| 21 | supplier evaluation | 3 | 7 % |

## Methods — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lean manufacturing | 12 | 28 % |
| 2 | six sigma | 10 | 23 % |
| 3 | iso 9001 | 6 | 14 % |
| 4 | FMEA | 5 | 12 % |
| 5 | 8d methodology | 4 | 9 % |
| 6 | 8D problem solving | 4 | 9 % |
| 7 | SPC | 4 | 9 % |
| 8 | APQP | 3 | 7 % |

## Responsibilities — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quality issue resolution | 4 | 9 % |
| 2 | corrective action implementation | 3 | 7 % |
| 3 | data analysis | 3 | 7 % |
| 4 | data collection | 3 | 7 % |
| 5 | process improvement | 3 | 7 % |
| 6 | quality standard development | 3 | 7 % |

## Regional breakdown

> **Corpus note:** 43 relevant ads in total — below the 100-ad target for a fully reliable ranking. Percentages above should be read as indicative.

### US (us)

43 ads.

**Top hard skills:**

- data analysis — 40 % (17 ads)
- corrective action implementation — 37 % (16 ads)
- root cause analysis — 37 % (16 ads)
- process improvement — 28 % (12 ads)
- quality assurance — 26 % (11 ads)
- risk assessment — 14 % (6 ads)
- statistical analysis — 14 % (6 ads)
- auditing — 12 % (5 ads)
- inspection — 12 % (5 ads)
- internal auditing — 12 % (5 ads)

**Top tools:**

- Microsoft Office — 12 % (5 ads)
- Microsoft Excel — 9 % (4 ads)
- Minitab — 7 % (3 ads)
- JMeter — 5 % (2 ads)
- Playwright — 5 % (2 ads)
- SAP — 5 % (2 ads)
- selenium — 5 % (2 ads)

**Seniority:** mid 77 % · senior 19 % · junior 5 %

### UK (gb)

**Insufficient evidence** — 0 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.

### EU/DACH (de, at, ch, nl)

**Insufficient evidence** — 0 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.


## Job title variants in the market

| Title | Ads |
|---|---|
| Quality Engineer | 6 |
| (USA) Quality Engineer | 1 |
| Aerospace Quality Engineer- Level 1 | 1 |
| Aerospace Supplier Quality Engineer | 1 |
| Engineer Supplier QA | 1 |
| Field Quality Engineer | 1 |
| Manufacturing Quality Engineer | 1 |
| Manufacturing Quality Engineer: Growth & Process Excellence | 1 |
| Night QA Coordinator: Food Safety & Production Quality | 1 |
| Oracle HCM Cloud Test Automation & Quality Engineer | 1 |
| Product Quality Engineer - Data Center Manufacturing | 1 |
| Product Quality Engineer/ Automation Specialist (Clearance Rq'd) | 1 |
| Quality Assurance Engineer | 1 |
| Quality Assurance Specialist Sr. | 1 |
| Quality Engineer - NCE Remediation | 1 |
| Quality Engineer - NDT | 1 |
| Quality Engineer (Product Transfer Validation) | 1 |
| Quality Engineer [Must have Complaint Handling exp] | 1 |
| Quality Engineer I | 1 |
| Quality Engineer II | 1 |
| Quality Engineer II - Lean Six Sigma in Manufacturing | 1 |
| Quality Engineer II Data-Driven Quality & Kaizen | 1 |
| Quality Engineer IV | 1 |
| Quality Engineer, Aerospace & Defense — 9/80 Schedule | 1 |
| Quality Engineer, CAPA & QC in Life Sciences | 1 |

Methodology: entities extracted per ad ({hard_skills, tools, methods, responsibilities, seniority}), normalized, counted as DISTINCT ads per entity; report threshold ≥ 3 ads. Headline sections in skills.md/tools.md use the stricter ≥ 20 % threshold.