QA Engineer resume keywords

What a qa engineer resume is screened for, and example bullets to adapt. Use the skills that are true of your experience, and put them inside accomplishment bullets rather than in a bare list.

Also covers: Quality Assurance Analyst, Software Tester, Test Engineer, Qa Analyst, SDET, Automation Tester.

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Skills and keywords

These are the terms most consistently used to screen qa engineer applications. Spell tools and certifications the way postings spell them — a screen matches the words, not the meaning.

Test automationManual testingSeleniumCypressTest planningRegression testingBug trackingJiraAPI testingAgile

Example bullets

Each one has blanks in brackets. Fill them with your own figures, or rewrite the line — never keep a number you cannot explain.

  • Automated N regression tests, cutting release testing from N days to N hours.
  • Logged N defects before release, N of them critical.
  • Raised automated coverage from N% to N%.

Verbs that signal ownership

Open bullets with these rather than with “responsible for” or “worked on”:

automatedloggedraised

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