5.4 KiB
Market evidence report — software-tester
Source: 42 real job ads (JSearch API, countries: us 42), 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 | 25 | 60 % |
| senior | 8 | 19 % |
| junior | 5 | 12 % |
| lead | 4 | 10 % |
Tools — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | JIRA | 13 | 31 % |
| 2 | Selenium | 13 | 31 % |
| 3 | Postman | 7 | 17 % |
| 4 | Cypress | 6 | 14 % |
| 5 | AWS | 5 | 12 % |
| 6 | Jenkins | 5 | 12 % |
| 7 | Playwright | 5 | 12 % |
| 8 | Azure DevOps | 4 | 10 % |
| 9 | Docker | 4 | 10 % |
| 10 | appium | 3 | 7 % |
| 11 | Confluence | 3 | 7 % |
| 12 | GitHub | 3 | 7 % |
| 13 | GitHub Actions | 3 | 7 % |
| 14 | JUnit | 3 | 7 % |
| 15 | Kubernetes | 3 | 7 % |
Hard skills — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | defect identification | 14 | 33 % |
| 2 | regression testing | 14 | 33 % |
| 3 | software testing | 14 | 33 % |
| 4 | integration testing | 9 | 21 % |
| 5 | performance testing | 8 | 19 % |
| 6 | test case creation | 8 | 19 % |
| 7 | functional testing | 7 | 17 % |
| 8 | api testing | 6 | 14 % |
| 9 | root cause analysis | 6 | 14 % |
| 10 | test automation | 6 | 14 % |
| 11 | test plan creation | 6 | 14 % |
| 12 | test case execution | 5 | 12 % |
| 13 | test execution | 5 | 12 % |
| 14 | debugging | 4 | 10 % |
| 15 | defect management | 4 | 10 % |
| 16 | end-to-end testing | 4 | 10 % |
| 17 | manual testing | 4 | 10 % |
| 18 | system testing | 4 | 10 % |
| 19 | test case design | 4 | 10 % |
| 20 | test plan design | 4 | 10 % |
| 21 | troubleshooting | 4 | 10 % |
| 22 | accessibility testing | 3 | 7 % |
| 23 | defect analysis | 3 | 7 % |
| 24 | defect tracking | 3 | 7 % |
| 25 | exploratory testing | 3 | 7 % |
| 26 | load testing | 3 | 7 % |
| 27 | quality assurance | 3 | 7 % |
| 28 | test case development | 3 | 7 % |
| 29 | test planning | 3 | 7 % |
| 30 | test script creation | 3 | 7 % |
| 31 | usability testing | 3 | 7 % |
Methods — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agile development | 11 | 26 % |
| 2 | scrum | 6 | 14 % |
| 3 | devsecops | 4 | 10 % |
| 4 | software development lifecycle (SDLC) | 4 | 10 % |
| 5 | automated testing | 3 | 7 % |
| 6 | ci/cd pipelines | 3 | 7 % |
| 7 | continuous integration | 3 | 7 % |
Responsibilities — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | defect tracking | 10 | 24 % |
| 2 | test case execution | 6 | 14 % |
| 3 | test execution | 6 | 14 % |
| 4 | test script maintenance | 5 | 12 % |
| 5 | defect resolution | 4 | 10 % |
| 6 | test documentation maintenance | 4 | 10 % |
| 7 | defect documentation | 3 | 7 % |
| 8 | defect reporting | 3 | 7 % |
| 9 | functional testing | 3 | 7 % |
| 10 | regression testing | 3 | 7 % |
| 11 | test plan execution | 3 | 7 % |
| 12 | test result documentation | 3 | 7 % |
Regional breakdown
Corpus note: 42 relevant ads in total — below the 100-ad target for a fully reliable ranking. Percentages above should be read as indicative.
US (us)
42 ads.
Top hard skills:
- defect identification — 33 % (14 ads)
- regression testing — 33 % (14 ads)
- software testing — 33 % (14 ads)
- integration testing — 21 % (9 ads)
- performance testing — 19 % (8 ads)
- test case creation — 19 % (8 ads)
- functional testing — 17 % (7 ads)
- api testing — 14 % (6 ads)
- root cause analysis — 14 % (6 ads)
- test automation — 14 % (6 ads)
Top tools:
- JIRA — 31 % (13 ads)
- Selenium — 31 % (13 ads)
- Postman — 17 % (7 ads)
- Cypress — 14 % (6 ads)
- AWS — 12 % (5 ads)
- Jenkins — 12 % (5 ads)
- Playwright — 12 % (5 ads)
- Azure DevOps — 10 % (4 ads)
- Docker — 10 % (4 ads)
- appium — 7 % (3 ads)
Seniority: mid 60 % · senior 19 % · junior 12 % · lead 10 %
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 |
|---|---|
| Software Tester | 4 |
| Software Test Engineer | 3 |
| Automation Tester | 2 |
| Senior Software Test Engineer | 2 |
| 10Years software testing / QA. - (Onsite - In Person Interview) | 1 |
| Applications Tester | 1 |
| Applications Tester with Security Clearance | 1 |
| Back-End Tester | 1 |
| Client Client UAT Tester Journeyman | 1 |
| Entry-Level App Tester - Freelance / Review | 1 |
| JR Software Tester | 1 |
| Junior Software Tester | 1 |
| Orace EBS QA / Tester - SCM & MFG | 1 |
| Oracle Functional Tester – Fixed Assets | 1 |
| PeopleSoft HCM Tester | 1 |
| QA Tester Jobs | 1 |
| QA/Test Automation Analyst | 1 |
| Senior QA Engineer – Mobile (Manual + Automation) | 1 |
| Senior Software Tester | 1 |
| ServiceNow QA Tester (321) | 1 |
| Software Applications Tester - TS/SCI with Polygraph | 1 |
| Software Automation Test Lead | 1 |
| Software Engineer in Test – C# / WPF | 1 |
| Software QA Engineer | 1 |
| Software QA Lead | 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.