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IT Quality and Testing Professionals

It quality and testing professionals test the quality of IT software, systems and computer games and identify and recommend solutions to problems and improvements that could be made.

Wages

New workers
AVERAGE
Experienced
£22,339
£39,700
£65,816

New workers start around £22,339. Normal pay is £39,700 per year.
Highly experienced workers can earn up to £65,816.

Available jobs

In the past year there were 36,735 vacancies for this type of job

5.50%

Projected job growth over the next 8 years

Related courses

People work towards these careers by taking these courses at college and uni.

What they do most days?

  • Makes recommendations concerning software/system quality.

  • Develops quality standards and validation techniques.

  • Develops, implements and documents test plans for IT software, systems and computer games.

  • Undertakes the testing of software, systems or computer games for errors, identifies source of problems and proposes solutions.

Hard Skills

Hard skills are specific, learnable, measurable, often industry or occupation-specific abilities related to a position.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Test Automation

  • Automation

  • Agile Methodology

  • Software Testing

  • Test Planning

  • Selenium (Software)

  • JIRA

  • Python (Programming Language)

  • Test Engineering

  • Java (Programming Language)

Soft Skills

Soft skills can be self-taught and usually do not necessitate a certain completed level of education.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Communication

  • Safety Assurance

  • Management

  • Problem Solving

  • Quality Assurance

  • Detail Oriented

  • Planning

  • Leadership

  • Troubleshooting (Problem Solving)

  • Innovation

How do I get a job like this?

People in these types of job started their career paths after studying courses like the ones below.

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Mathematics

University of Southampton

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Southampton · 23/09/2024

Tariff points: N/A

Mathematics (3 years)

Durham University

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Durham · 30/09/2024

Tariff points: N/A

Mathematics with Placement

Brunel University London

MMath · 5 Years · Full-time · Uxbridge · 23/09/2024

Tariff points: N/A

Cyber Security

University of the West of Scotland

MEng (Hon) · 1-4 Years · Full-time · Hamilton · 09/2024

Tariff points: 114/114

Computational Physics

The University of Edinburgh

MPhys · 5 Years · Full-time · Edinburgh · 09/2024

Tariff points: N/A

Data Science

University of Bristol

BSc · 3 Years · Full-time · Bristol · 09/2024

Tariff points: N/A

Mathematics

University of Portsmouth

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Portsmouth · 23/09/2024

Tariff points: 112/120

Mathematics with foundation year

Sheffield Hallam University

BSc (Hons) · 5 Years · Sandwich including foundation year · Sheffield · 09/2024

Tariff points: 80/80

Mathematics for Finance

Swansea University

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Swansea · 23/09/2024

Tariff points: 120/144

Computer Engineering

University of Greenwich

BEng (Hon) · 4 Years · Sandwich · Chatham · 09/2024

Tariff points: 112/120

Robotics and Automation

Leeds Beckett University

BEng (Hon) · 3 Years · Full-time · Leeds · 16/09/2024

Tariff points: 128/128

Animal Management

Dudley College

HNC · 1 Year · Full-time · Dudley · 09/2024

Tariff points: 80/80

Mathematics

Bristol, University of the West of England

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Bristol · 16/09/2024

Tariff points: 120/120

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