Quality assurance résumé
The filters on a QA search are unusually literal: tool names, test types and whether you have written automation. All three have to appear as words.
- US median pay
- $104,300
- BLS, May 2025
- People doing it
- 186,740
- across the United States
- Ten-year outlook
- +5.7%
- projected change in employment
- AI exposure
- Moderate exposure
- scored two independent ways
What this one has to carry
Beyond the ordinary sections every résumé needs. These are the things filtered on for this particular role, and they have to appear as words in the body of the document.
- The test frameworks by name — Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, JUnit, pytest — because the search is for the word, not the skill
- Whether your work was manual, automated or both, said plainly rather than implied
- The kind of testing: regression, integration, performance, accessibility
- The scale you worked at — suites, cases, releases a month — as figures
The one that costs people this job
Writing "QA" and nothing else
Recruiters search the long form as often as the abbreviation, and parsers do not expand acronyms. Write "quality assurance" once in full and the abbreviation elsewhere, and both searches find you.
Where it is worth the most
Median pay divided by local prices, which is a different ordering from the sticker-salary tables and the one that decides what you keep.
| State | Median | Worth locally | Jobs |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | $116,580 | $126,428 | 450 |
| Virginia | $121,590 | $120,267 | 10,160 |
| Washington | $128,480 | $120,063 | 7,970 |
| Colorado | $123,690 | $120,029 | 5,110 |
| California | $128,740 | $116,275 | 27,710 |
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