
SQA Automated Testing - USA - 6 Years
Salary Report
Information Technology Job
Software Quality Assurance:
Automated Testing
United States Location
United States of America
Competitive Position® Salary Report
Data Observed 6/1/22 to 5/31/23
Salary Average
$111,520
Experience Requirement
6 Years
Raise +1 Year
$4,145 at 3.72%
Salary and Number of Jobs

About Salary and Jobs
Salary Range :
At required Experience of 6 Years: $111,520 is Salary average; 50% of Jobs pay between $87,416 & $135,623; and, 5% of Jobs top $170,392.
Number of Jobs :
Most Jobs are available closest to the Salary Average.
Fewer Jobs are available at Lower and Higher Salaries.
Salary End Points :
$26,400 = annual salary at $15 per hour working between: 44 weeks at 40 hours a week, to, 52 weeks at 34 hours a week.
$412,827 = annual salary for the highest paying IT Job in the highest paying US City at the Top 2.5% Experience and Top 2.5% Salary.
Job Market :
Job offers, publicly posted in want ads by employers, were observed and measured from 6/1/22 to 5/31/23.
View: Documentation and Methodology.
Top Salaries
Top Percentile of Job market | Top Salary |
---|---|
2.5% | $181,726 |
5% | $170,392 |
10% | $157,355 |
25% | $135,623 |
33% | $126,746 |
50% | $111,520 |
Top Percentile of Job Market =
Number of Jobs Above the Top Salary
÷
Number of all Jobs at 6 Years Experience.
Salary Range and Jobs
Percentage of Jobs within Salary Lows and Highs
Percent of Job Market | Salary Range | |
---|---|---|
Low Salary | High Salary | |
10% | $107,030 | $116,009 |
25% | $100,135 | $122,904 |
33% | $96,294 | $126,746 |
50% | $87,416 | $135,623 |
67% | $76,696 | $146,343 |
95% | $41,313 | $181,726 |
Salary Average =
$111,520
Mid Point between each Low/High pair.
Percent of Job Market =
Number of Jobs with Salary between Low/High pair
÷
Number of all Jobs at 6 Years Experience.
Salary and Experience

Salary ±1 Year
Experience | Salary Average | Raise +1 Year |
---|---|---|
5 Years | $106,735 | $4,785 at 4.48% |
6 Years | $111,520 | $4,145 at 3.72% |
7 Years | $115,664 | $3,656 at 3.16% |
About Salary and Experience
Salary by Year :
Salary increases rapidly in the first years, rises moderately with greater experience and approaches a ceiling with maturity.
Salary Growth Overall :
The increase in Salary average from low to high experience is equal to that in the USA IT job market as a whole.
Salary and Experience Range :
Salary average rises with experience: $51,119 at the low experience of Entry Level; $114,004 at the average experience of 6 Years and 7 Months; and, $134,654 at the top experience of 13 Years and 9 Months.
Experience End Points :
0 = Entry Level.
15 Years and 6 Months = Top 2.5% Experience in the IT Job with the highest required experience in the USA.
Job Market :
Job offers, publicly posted in want ads by employers, were observed and measured from 6/1/22 to 5/31/23.
View: Documentation and Methodology.
Salary by Year
Experience | Salary Average | Raise +1 Year |
---|---|---|
Entry Level | $51,119 | $21,515 at 42.09% |
1 Year | $72,634 | $12,586 at 17.33% |
2 Years | $85,220 | $8,929 at 10.48% |
3 Years | $94,149 | $6,927 at 7.36% |
4 Years | $101,076 | $5,659 at 5.60% |
5 Years | $106,735 | $4,785 at 4.48% |
6 Years | $111,520 | $4,144 at 3.72% |
7 Years | $115,664 | $3,656 at 3.16% |
8 Years | $119,320 | $3,271 at 2.74% |
9 Years | $122,591 | $2,958 at 2.41% |
10 Years | $125,549 | $2,701 at 2.15% |
11 Years | $128,250 | $2,484 at 1.94% |
12 Years | $130,734 | $2,301 at 1.76% |
13 Years | $133,035 | $2,141 at 1.61% |
Salary and Experience Range
95% of Jobs require Experience between the Low and Top
Experience | Salary Average | Raise +1 Year | |
---|---|---|---|
Low | Entry Level | $51,119 | $21,515 at 42.09% |
Average | 6 Years and 7 Months | $114,004 | $3,845 at 3.37% |
Top | 13 Years and 9 Months | $134,654 | $2,037 at 1.51% |
Qualifications
Description
Software quality assurance for automated load, stress, performance, compliance and functional testing, is the position's primary responsibility.
Skills
The qualifications of this information technology Job:
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- Software Quality Assurance (SQA),
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Agile, Application (App), Back End, Front End, Software (SW), User Interface (UI) or Web,
and
Quality Assurance (QA) or Testing;
- Automated Testing Tools.
Characteristics
A+ Skills
Additional IT skills requested in some job descriptions:
- Project Lead,
- Development Manager, Lead Developer, Project Lead, Project Manager, Project Supervisor, Team Lead, Team Supervisor or Technical Lead,
- 20.6% of job descriptions;
- Master of Arts/Science or Ph.D. Graduate Degree,
- 22% of job descriptions;
- Bachelor of Arts/Science Degree,
- 63.5% of job descriptions;
- Financial Sector,
- Asset Management, Banking, Brokerage, Commodity Trading, Derivative Trading, Equity Trading, Finance, Insurance, Investment, Securities Trading, Stock Market or Wall Street,
- 3% of job descriptions;
- Security Clearance,
- 11.3% of job descriptions;
- Jira,
- 23.6% of job descriptions;
- Cucumber,
- 6.6% of job descriptions;
- Shell Scripts,
- 7.4% of job descriptions;
- SQL (Structured Query Language),
- 13.7% of job descriptions;
- MATLAB,
- 6% of job descriptions;
- Microsoft Azure,
- 5.2% of job descriptions;
- AWS (Amazon Web Services),
- 4.7% of job descriptions.
Location
United States of America