What Does a Software Quality Engineer Do?

“software quality,” “java,” and “python” aren’t the only skills we found software quality engineers list on their resumes. In fact, there’s a whole list of software quality engineer responsibilities that we found, including:

See the full list of software quality engineer skills.

After discovering the most helpful skills, we moved onto what kind of education might be helpful in becoming a software quality engineer. We found that 69.2% of software quality engineers have graduated with a bachelor’s degree and 19.3% of people in this position have earned their master’s degrees. While most software quality engineers have a college degree, you may find it’s also true that generally it’s possible to be successful in this career with only a high school degree. In fact, our research shows that one out of every nine software quality engineers were not college graduates.

Those software quality engineers who do attend college, typically earn either computer science degrees or electrical engineering degrees. Less commonly earned degrees for software quality engineers include computer engineering degrees or business degrees.

Once you’re ready to become a software quality engineer, you should explore the companies that typically hire software quality engineers. According to software quality engineer resumes that we searched through, software quality engineers are hired the most by Change Healthcare, Raymond, and NetApp. Currently, Change Healthcare has 139 software quality engineer job openings, while there are 33 at Raymond and 31 at NetApp.

Since salary is important to some software quality engineers, it’s good to note that they are figured to earn the highest salaries at Apple, Twitter, and StubHub. If you were to take a closer look at Apple, you’d find that the average software quality engineer salary is $140,985. Then at Twitter, software quality engineers receive an average salary of $133,065, while the salary at StubHub is $130,882.

View more details on software quality engineer salaries across the United States.

Some other companies you might be interested in as a software quality engineer include Microsoft, IBM, and Lockheed Martin. These three companies were found to hire the most software quality engineers from the top 100 U.S. educational institutions.