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U.S. Dept. of Labor code 15-1253.0015% growth 2024-2034, Much faster than averageTypical pay: $102,610/yr

Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers

What this job is about

Ensure software quality through systematic testing and documentation.

What this work involves, step by step

AI can help most with the planning, drafting, and paperwork below — not the hands-on parts.

  1. 1

    Identify software issues

    Analyze and document problems with program functions and outputs.

  2. 2

    Document defects

    Use a bug tracking system to report software defects to developers.

  3. 3

    Develop test programs

    Create testing programs for various scenarios including regression and usability.

  4. 4

    Design test plans

    Create detailed test plans, scenarios, and scripts to guide testing.

  5. 5

    Monitor bug resolution

    Track the progress of bug fixes and ensure successful resolution.

Tools used in this work
Adobe AcrobatAdobe After EffectsAdobe Creative Cloud softwareAdobe IllustratorAdobe InDesignAdobe PhotoshopAJAXAmazon DynamoDBAmazon Elastic Compute Cloud EC2Amazon RedshiftAmazon Web Services AWS CloudFormationAmazon Web Services AWS softwareAnsible softwareApache CassandraApache HadoopApache HiveApache KafkaApache MavenApache SparkApache Subversion SVNApache TomcatApple macOSApple SafariAtlassian ConfluenceAtlassian JIRAAutodesk AutoCADBashBentley MicroStationCC#C++Cascading style sheets CSSChefCisco WebexDjangoDockerEclipse IDEElasticsearchEpic SystemsESRI ArcGIS softwareExtensible markup language XMLGitGitHubGitLabGoGoogle AnalyticsGoogle AngularGoogle DocsGoogle SheetsHibernate ORMHypertext markup language HTMLIBM DB2IBM SPSS StatisticsJavaScriptJavaScript Object Notation JSONJenkins CIjQueryJUnitLinuxMicrosoft .NET FrameworkMicrosoft AccessMicrosoft Active Server Pages ASPMicrosoft ASP.NETMicrosoft Azure softwareMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft Office softwareMicrosoft OutlookMicrosoft PowerPointMicrosoft PowerShellMicrosoft ProjectMicrosoft SharePointMicrosoft SQL ServerMicrosoft SQL Server Integration Services SSISMicrosoft SQL Server Reporting Services SSRSMicrosoft Team Foundation ServerMicrosoft TeamsMicrosoft VisioMicrosoft Visual BasicMicrosoft Visual Basic for Applications VBAMicrosoft Visual StudioMicrosoft WindowsMicrosoft Windows ServerMicrosoft WordMongoDBMozilla FirefoxMySQLNode.jsNoSQLOracle DatabaseOracle JavaOracle Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition J2EEOracle PeopleSoftOracle PL/SQLOracle Primavera Enterprise Project Portfolio ManagementPerlPHPPostgreSQLPuppetPythonRReactRed Hat Enterprise LinuxRed Hat OpenShiftRubySalesforce softwareSAP softwareSASScalaSeleniumShell scriptSlackSplunk EnterpriseSpring BootSpring FrameworkStructured query language SQLSwiftTableauTeradata DatabaseThe MathWorks MATLABTransact-SQLTrimble SketchUp ProUNIXUNIX ShellZoom

Free — no credit card required. 200 messages included.