Career Galaxy / Engineering
QA Automation Engineer
You protect quality at scale.
You design test strategy and write the automation that catches problems before customers do.
Entry level friendlyHands on buildingInvestigatingLow barrier to entryStability
Entry
$65k
Median
$100k
Senior
$140k
Outlook: Steady growth. Ranges are US estimates and vary by market and employer.
A day in the life
- Write a regression suite for a new feature
- Investigate a flaky test
- Report a defect with a clean reproduction
Skills that matter
Test frameworksScriptingCI pipelines
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