$86.4k - $131.4k
Customer representatives. Reports directly to Senior Test & Trials Engineer, Supervises various trades as required. Deal with Customer,... ...• Coordinate test conduct between Production, Test, QA, Customer, and Regulato…
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QA Engineer jobs in San Diego, CA
QA engineers make sure software works before users find out it does not. The role blends manual exploratory testing with automated test suites and close collaboration with developers.
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$31–$82/hr
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$112k
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Job Title: RF Test Engineer Location: Fremont/San diego , California onsite $110K + Benefits Fulltime Onsite: Onsite at customer location Core Responsibilities 1. Test Execution & System Validation Configure, calibrate,…
Description: Hybrid in San Diego, CA Our client seeks a Software Test Engineer to lead and execute advanced software testing for web applications and instrument systems with a focus on C# and TypeScript solutions. The ro…
usability and satisfaction. Requirements • Minimum required Education: Bachelor's / Master's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or equivalent. • Minimum required Experience: Minimum…
QA/ Test Automation Engineer (Healthcare Domain) San Diego CA - Onsite Day one $ 6 Months Key Responsibilities & Required Skills: Hands-on experience in test automation using Robot Framework and Python Proficient in...
$140k - $180k
career to new heights with Innoflight—one of San Diego’s fastest-growing Aerospace and Defense innovators. Here, visionary minds engineer the future of space technology through pioneering, compact, and cyber-secure solut…
the-Loop (SIL), Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL), and Vehicle-in-the-Loop (VIL) environments. As a Senior Software Test & Automation Engineer, you will design and develop automated test infrastructure, execute system-level ver…
$105k - $145k
Role: Test and Quality Engineer Location: San Diego, CA (in-office) Salary: $105,000 - $145,000 / yr + stock options, 401k matching, and other benefits. Role Overview: Seasats is growing our Manufacturing Operations team…
$90k - $120k
career to new heights with Innoflight—one of San Diego’s fastest-growing Aerospace and Defense innovators. Here, visionary minds engineer the future of space technology through pioneering, compact, and cyber-secure solut…
Job Description Job Description Description: On-site in San Diego, CA Our client seeks a Software Quality Assurance professional to develop and execute verification strategies for manufacturing equipment, automation, and…
Sr. Software Test Automation Engineer (Automation Frameworks, Selenium, API Testing, Jmeter, regression testing, performance testing, SQL, CI-CD, Azure, AWS) in San Diego, CA APIs Testing, Automation Frameworks, Data Dri…
$105k - $125k
Role and Responsibilities: Full Time position supporting the TESS Task Order filling the Project Engineer as a senior test engineer position with extensive travel. Duties include: system engineering, test analysis, and t…
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What qa engineers earn in San Diego
Hourly first — that's how the offer arrives
| Experience | Hourly | Annual, full-time |
|---|---|---|
| Entry level | $31–$45 | $65k–$94k |
| Mid level | $45–$62 | $94k–$130k |
| Senior | $60–$82 | $124k–$171k |
Adjusted for the San Diego market from national ranges.
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What employers ask for
The skills these listings keep naming
Test planning and case designAutomation (Selenium, Playwright)API testing (Postman)A scripting language (Python, JS)Bug reporting and triageSQL for data verificationCI integration of test suitesExploratory testingAttention to detail
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Interview questions worth rehearsing
With the thing the interviewer is actually listening for
How would you test a login form?
Go beyond happy path: invalid inputs, security cases, lockouts, accessibility, and different devices. Structure your answer into categories so it sounds systematic.
What do you automate, and what do you test manually?
Automate the repeatable and regression-prone; explore manually where human judgment finds new bugs. Showing you know automation has a maintenance cost is the senior move.
Walk me through a great bug report you have written.
Reproduction steps, expected versus actual, environment, evidence, and severity. Emphasize that a good report saves a developer an hour.
A developer says your bug is not a bug. What do you do?
Show that you argue from the user's perspective and the spec, escalate with data if needed, and keep the relationship collaborative.
How do you decide what to test when time is short before a release?
Risk-based prioritization: critical paths, recent changes, and areas with bug history. Naming the tradeoff explicitly is what they want to hear.
How do you keep an automated test suite from becoming flaky?
Talk about stable selectors, proper waits, isolated test data, and quarantining flaky tests instead of ignoring red builds.
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Resume tips that move the needle
For qa engineers specifically — generic advice costs you here
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Quantify your impact in defects: escape rate reduced, critical bugs caught pre-release, regression time cut.
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Name your automation stack and the size of suites you built or maintained, such as number of tests or coverage of critical flows.
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Show progression from manual to automation if that is your path — it is the expected trajectory and worth making explicit.
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Mention the domains you tested (payments, healthcare, mobile) since domain risk knowledge transfers.
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Include CI/CD integration work; a suite that runs on every pull request is worth more than one run by hand.
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Where this role goes
Typical progression
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QA Analyst
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QA Engineer
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Senior QA Engineer
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QA Lead
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Head of Quality
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