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QA Engineer Resume Keywords

These are the skills that recent qa engineer job postings list most often. We counted them across 251 postings from 188 employers, posted between September 29, 2026 and November 12, 2026.

Top 20 skills in qa engineer job postings

  1. 1

    Python

    25% of postings19% as required
  2. 2

    Playwright

    17% of postings13% as required
  3. 3

    Selenium

    15% of postings10% as required
  4. 4

    CI/CD

    14% of postings12% as required
  5. 5

    Java

    13% of postings9% as required
  6. 6

    Test automation

    11% of postings10% as required
  7. 7

    Quality assurance

    10% of postings10% as required
  8. 8

    Jira

    10% of postings8% as required
  9. 9

    SQL

    9% of postings7% as required
  10. 10

    API testing

    9% of postings8% as required
  11. 11

    JavaScript

    8% of postings6% as required
  12. 12

    Root cause analysis

    8% of postings6% as required
  13. 13

    Cypress

    7% of postings5% as required
  14. 14

    Regression testing

    7% of postings6% as required
  15. 15

    TypeScript

    7% of postings6% as required
  16. 16

    Microsoft Office

    7% of postings4% as required
  17. 17

    C#

    7% of postings4% as required
  18. 18

    Postman

    6% of postings5% as required
  19. 19

    Test planning

    6% of postings6% as required
  20. 20

    Linux

    6% of postings5% as required

Source: public postings from employer career sites collected by LetMeApply. Skills are read from each posting with AI and merged across spellings (for example, AWS and Amazon Web Services). Each employer counts at most 3 times, so one company hiring in bulk does not skew the list.

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How to use this list

  1. Treat it as a map of the market, not a checklist. Tailor to the posting you are applying to.
  2. For each skill you really have, make sure it is written on your resume, in the posting's wording, where you used it.
  3. Leave out skills you do not have. Listing them can cost you in the interview.