Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers
Salary benchmarks based on 2430 public records across 90 cities.
What do Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers do?
Develop and execute software tests to identify software problems and their causes. Test system modifications to prepare for implementation. Document software and application defects using a bug tracking system and report defects to software or web developers. Create and maintain databases of known defects. May participate in software design reviews to provide input on functional requirements, operational characteristics, product designs, and schedules.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, SOC 2018 (SOC 15-1253)
What our data shows for Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers
RoleHue publishes 2,430 salary records for Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers, across 90 cities. Weighted by how many records each city contributes, the band runs from $99,602 at the 25th percentile to $132,276 at the 75th, a spread of $32,674 around $114,583. Each of those three figures averages the city-level percentiles rather than ranking the pooled records, and weights each city by how many records it holds, so the cities we hold most data for pull them hardest. Measured against that $114,583 figure rather than in dollars (29% of it), that spread is mid-pack among the roles we cover.
Cupertino, CA carries the highest median we hold for the role at $181,848; Louisville, KY the lowest at $77,308, a gap of $104,540. The middle half of those city medians, weighted by how many records each city contributes, spans $27,935, narrower than the $32,674 band within cities: for Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers, where a record sits within its own metro separates our numbers more than which metro it came from.
No single metro carries most of this: the largest share is Plano, TX, with 118 of the 2,430 records we publish for this role (5%). Evidence clears 25 records in 31 of the 90 cities; for the rest, the city median we show rests on fewer records than that.
Salary Overview
Weighted average across all cities with available data. Based on 2430 data points.
$100K
P25
$115K
P50
$132K
P75
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor disclosure filings for Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers roles, plus anonymous submissions.
Benchmarks last recalculated: 2026-07-31. That is when we recomputed the statistics · the underlying filings are older. See methodology for how current the data is.