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)