Testers i QA

See what work of testers and QA specialists looks like. Check what are the average salaries of testers. Find out what are the most popular types of tests.

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Respondent Profile

Subroles
Tester manual
34.0%
QA
31.5%
Automation Tester
28.0%
Test Team Leader
2.8%
Test Manager
1.7%
Pentester
1.3%
Test Analyst
0.7%
Gender
Male
60.2%
Female
39.2%
Non-binary
0.6%
Age
18 - 24 years old
4.3%
25 - 29 years old
23.7%
30 - 34 years old
32.9%
35 - 39 years old
24.8%
40+ years
14.3%
Education
Master's degree (Master, Master of Science in Engineering)
42.6%
High school
6.2%
Attended university but did not obtain a degree
8.4%
Currently studying
3.9%
Bachelor's degree (licentiate, engineer)
26.8%
Postgraduate studies
11.2%
Company size
Small company (up to 50)
12.1%
Medium-sized company (51-500)
34.0%
Large company (501-5,000)
22.4%
Very large company (more than 5,000)
31.5%
Level of experience
Intern
0.7%
Junior
15.2%
Mid / Regular
49.1%
Senior
25.8%
Tech Lead / Team Lead
7.8%
Mid-level Manager
1.4%
Experience level vs. years of experienc
Mid-level Manager
15.2 years
Tech Lead / Team Lead
9.3 years
Senior
9.1 years
Mid / Regular
4.8 years
Junior
2.3 years
What are your career aspirations?
I want to stay in my specialization
63.9%
I want to change my specialization within IT
23.7%
I don't know.
7.6%
I do not want to work in IT in the future
4.7%
Preferred future specializations
It applies only to individuals who have expressed a desire to change their specialization.
Automation tester
28.4%
Backend
14.8%
Do you want to manage a team in the future?
I don't know.
12.7%
Yes
29.3%
No
35.1%
It doesn't matter to me
22.9%

Technologies

What are you testing?
Web
77.0%
API
64.4%
Mobile
32.8%
Desktop
31.2%
Other
13.6%
IoT / Embedded
9.0%
Security
8.7%
Gry
2.8%
Performance
2.0%
What testing methods do you use in your work?
Executing test scenarios
88.9%
Specification-based testing
81.8%
Exploratory testing
71.2%
Log and telemetry analysis
61.6%
Ad Hoc Testing
49.5%
Simulating a user persona
49.5%
Bug Hunting
40.4%
Pair testing
11.6%
Mob testing
6.1%
Executing test scenarios
90.5%
Exploratory testing
88.8%
Specification-based testing
86.8%
Simulating a user persona
60.3%
Ad Hoc Testing
59.1%
Bug Hunting
47.5%
Log and telemetry analysis
44.2%
Mob testing
14.5%
Pair testing
9.5%
Exploratory testing
88.8%
Executing test scenarios
88.8%
Specification-based testing
88.4%
Ad Hoc Testing
61.6%
Simulating a user persona
61.2%
Log and telemetry analysis
55.8%
Bug Hunting
49.6%
Pair testing
12.5%
Mob testing
9.4%
Executing test scenarios
91.7%
Exploratory testing
83.3%
Specification-based testing
90.0%
Exploratory testing
85.0%
Executing test scenarios
85.0%
Ad Hoc Testing
60.0%
Bug Hunting
55.0%
Simulating a user persona
50.0%
What types of automated tests do you write?
Acceptance tests
66.3%
Integration tests
66.3%
Generating test data
48.0%
BDD scripts
37.8%
Load tests
30.1%
Scripts for logging in and monitoring data
29.6%
Unit tests
20.9%
Security tests
9.2%
Other
4.6%
E2E
2.0%
I don't write such scripts
0.5%
I don't write such scripts
64.7%
Acceptance tests
19.7%
Generating test data
13.9%
Integration tests
10.5%
Unit tests
6.3%
Scripts for logging in and monitoring data
4.6%
BDD scripts
4.2%
Load tests
3.4%
Security tests
0.8%
Other
0.4%
Security tests
62.5%
Unit tests
37.5%
Generating test data
25.0%
Load tests
25.0%
I don't write such scripts
25.0%
Scripts for logging in and monitoring data
25.0%
Other
12.5%
Integration tests
12.5%
BDD scripts
12.5%
Acceptance tests
45.5%
Integration tests
40.6%
Generating test data
30.8%
I don't write such scripts
25.0%
BDD scripts
23.2%
Load tests
16.5%
Scripts for logging in and monitoring data
15.2%
Unit tests
9.8%
Security tests
5.4%
Other
2.2%
E2E
1.3%
Regression Tests
0.9%
I don't write such scripts
40.0%
Other
20.0%
Unit tests
20.0%
Generating test data
20.0%
Acceptance tests
20.0%
I don't write such scripts
75.0%
BDD scripts
16.7%
Generating test data
16.7%
Acceptance tests
16.7%
Unit tests
8.3%
Scripts for logging in and monitoring data
8.3%
Load tests
8.3%
Integration tests
8.3%
Security tests
8.3%
Integration tests
52.6%
Generating test data
36.8%
Acceptance tests
31.6%
I don't write such scripts
26.3%
Unit tests
10.5%
Regression Tests
5.3%
Scripts for logging in and monitoring data
5.3%
Load tests
5.3%
What programming languages do you use in your work?
Also scripting, markup, and query languages.
Java
42.5%
Python
35.0%
SQL
32.5%
JavaScript
30.5%
TypeScript
28.0%
HTML / CSS
15.5%
C#
15.0%
Other
6.5%
SQL
41.6%
I don't use any
36.2%
JavaScript
16.5%
Java
10.3%
TypeScript
10.3%
Python
10.3%
HTML / CSS
9.5%
C#
5.8%
SQL
35.1%
TypeScript
34.7%
JavaScript
31.6%
Python
27.6%
Java
24.0%
I don't use any
16.0%
HTML / CSS
9.3%
C#
8.4%

Comment

A very significant trend is the high popularity of TypeScript (33.2%) and JavaScript (32.2%), indicating an increasing involvement of QA in testing web applications. The rise in the importance of TypeScript may be due to the increased number of projects using modern frontend frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue.js, where QA needs to integrate tests with the application and work on automated tests, e.g., in Cypress, Playwright, or Selenium.

An interesting phenomenon is that as many as 34.7% of manual testers declare that they do not use any programming language. This shows that many manual tests still rely on exploring the application, performing test cases without the support of scripts or queries.

Despite the growing popularity of low-code/no-code tools and automation, manual testing still plays an important role, especially in usability testing or exploratory testing.

Sylwia Szymańska
Sylwia Szymańska
QA Engineer
@testerka_oprogramowania
What tools and frameworks do you use for testing?
Selenium
49.5%
Postman
48.4%
Playwright
34.9%
JUnit
20.3%
JMeter
19.8%
Cypress
17.2%
SoapUI
12.5%
NUnit
7.3%
Postman
57.3%
I do not use any
25.5%
Playwright
13.8%
SoapUI
13.4%
Selenium
13.0%
JMeter
7.5%
Cypress
4.2%
Postman
58.6%
Playwright
38.3%
Selenium
24.3%
Cypress
17.1%
I do not use any
11.7%
SoapUI
10.4%
JMeter
10.4%
JUnit
8.6%
What does the test schedule look like in your project?
The vast majority are automated tests
36.0%
Majority are automated tests
20.3%
Roughly 50/50
20.8%
Majority are manual tests
11.7%
The vast majority are manual tests
11.2%
The vast majority are automated tests
0.4%
Majority are automated tests
2.5%
Roughly 50/50
6.6%
Majority are manual tests
18.7%
The vast majority are manual tests
71.8%
The vast majority are automated tests
11.1%
Majority are automated tests
11.1%
Roughly 50/50
22.2%
Majority are manual tests
22.2%
The vast majority are manual tests
33.3%
The vast majority are automated tests
9.8%
Majority are automated tests
10.2%
Roughly 50/50
21.3%
Majority are manual tests
19.6%
The vast majority are manual tests
39.1%
Majority are manual tests
20.0%
The vast majority are manual tests
80.0%
The vast majority are automated tests
8.3%
Majority are automated tests
25.0%
Roughly 50/50
25.0%
Majority are manual tests
16.7%
The vast majority are manual tests
25.0%
The vast majority are automated tests
5.0%
Majority are automated tests
5.0%
Roughly 50/50
20.0%
Majority are manual tests
35.0%
The vast majority are manual tests
35.0%

Salaries

AVG
MEDIAN
Salaries by job type - all experience levels, average
Automation Tester
9 538 PLN
Test Team Leader
9 080 PLN
QA
8 513 PLN
Tester manual
6 635 PLN
Automation Tester
19 396 PLN
QA
17 801 PLN
Tester manual
12 942 PLN
Tester manual
5 520 PLN
AVG
MEDIAN
Earnings by job type - all experience levels, median
Automation Tester
9 000 PLN
QA
8 000 PLN
Test Team Leader
8 000 PLN
Tester manual
6 020 PLN
Automation Tester
19 000 PLN
QA
17 000 PLN
Tester manual
12 500 PLN
Tester manual
4 600 PLN
AVG
MEDIAN
Salaries by job type - junior, mid-level
UoP - kwota na rękę
Automation Tester
6 084 PLN
QA
5 734 PLN
Tester manual
5 237 PLN
AVG
MEDIAN
Earnings by position type - junior, median
UoP - kwota na rękę
Automation Tester
5 800 PLN
QA
5 600 PLN
Tester manual
5 000 PLN
AVG
MEDIAN
Salaries by job type - mid, average
UoP, UZ, and UD - net amount; B2B - net on the invoice.
Automation Tester
8 507 PLN
QA
7 986 PLN
Tester manual
6 438 PLN
Automation Tester
16 071 PLN
QA
14 220 PLN
Tester manual
11 255 PLN
AVG
MEDIAN
Earnings by job type - mid, median
UoP, UZ, and UD - net amount; B2B - net on the invoice.
Automation Tester
8 000 PLN
QA
7 200 PLN
Tester manual
6 020 PLN
Automation Tester
15 000 PLN
QA
13 500 PLN
Tester manual
10 000 PLN
AVG
MEDIAN
Salaries by job type - senior, average
UoP, UZ, and UD - net amount; B2B - net on the invoice.
Automation Tester
12 592 PLN
QA
10 850 PLN
Tester manual
9 044 PLN
Automation Tester
23 159 PLN
QA
21 696 PLN
Tester manual
15 416 PLN
AVG
MEDIAN
Earnings by job type - senior, median
UoP, UZ, and UD - net amount; B2B - net on the invoice.
Automation Tester
11 500 PLN
QA
11 000 PLN
Tester manual
9 000 PLN
Automation Tester
22 000 PLN
QA
20 000 PLN
Tester manual
15 000 PLN

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