Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers

58% (Moderate Risk)

Moderate Risk (41-60%): Occupations with a moderate risk of automation usually involve routine tasks but still require some human judgment and interaction.

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Sentiment

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Wages

Very high paid relative to other professions

In 2023, the median annual wage for 'Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers' was $101,800, or $48 per hour

'Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers' were paid 111.8% higher than the national median wage, which stood at $48,060

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Comments

Cookiee2003 (Moderate) 1 month ago

I think that automation is already a big part of software testing, so in the next 20 years automation will become an even greater resource. However, replacing a human quality engineer would be very difficult. There are so many additional tasks that a tester has to take on such as communicating with people in other teams about the software that is being developed and finding out the exact requirements of the client so that they are getting exactly what they want.

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tomasz (Low) 5 months ago

I voted low because imo working as a tester is based on adaptation to the new requirements every day. There is a part of testing called automated tests, which is well known for years and all the repetitive tasks are automated, so I am highly sceptical, that AI or 'robotics' will take over QA, especially manual testing.

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Nishant (Low) 1 year ago

Few mundane tasks definitely can be automated. I guess robots fail where human judgement is of highest quality

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Ariel (Low) 1 year ago

I worked in the videogame software functionality quality assurance since 2014 and we already started working along some automated parts a long time ago. Thing is you still need a human to be creative about how to break the game and how other humans will take advantage of the games mechanics to break it. Nvm all the random crap humans do in games that automation cant anticipate a human will do?

Yes many low level positions will go away but specialists at my level who already work with some automation assistance aren't going anywhere. At the end of the day, we're the safety net in the software tech industry. Specialized testers I mean

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Master of the Lamp (Highly likely) 1 year ago

ChatGPT is changing the world and can already do my job better than I do!
And we are at 2023 not 2030!

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Bob (No chance) 1 year ago

Automated testing is checking. Humans are better

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--- (Highly likely) 1 year ago

STOP MAJORING IN COMPUTER SCIENCE.

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