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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.

Routes to this career

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Data Science and Analytics

University of Portsmouth

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Portsmouth · 22/09/2025

Tariff points: 112/120

Computer Science

University of Leicester

MCompu (H) · 4-5 Years · Full-time · Leicester · 22/09/2025

Tariff points: 128/168

Computer Science

Royal Holloway, University of London

Msci (Hon) · 4 Years · Full-time · Egham · 22/09/2025

Tariff points: N/A

Computer Science

Canterbury Christ Church University

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Canterbury · 09/2025

Tariff points: 112/112

Game Art and Production Top-up

SGS (South Gloucestershire and Stroud College)

BA (Hons) · 1 Year · Full-time · Bristol · 09/2025

Tariff points: N/A

Cyber Security FdSc

Orbital South Colleges University Centre

FdSc · 2 Years · Full-time · Redhill · 09/2025

Tariff points: 64/64

Computing

Gloucestershire College

HNC · 1 Year · Full-time · Cheltenham · 15/09/2025

Tariff points: 48/48

Applied Computing

Gower College Swansea

HND · 2 Years · Full-time · Swansea · 09/2025

Tariff points: 48/48

Cyber Security

University of Winchester

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Winchester · 22/09/2025

Tariff points: 104/112

Software Engineering (AI)

Richmond American University London

BSc (Hons) · 4 Years · Full-time · London · 09/2025

Tariff points: 112/112

Cyber Security & Digital Forensics

University of Greenwich

BSc (Hons) · 6 Years · Part-time · London · 09/2025

Tariff points: 112/112

Computing with Foundation Year

Buckinghamshire New University

BSc (Hons) · 4 Years · Full-time · High Wycombe · 09/2025

Tariff points: 32/56

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