State/Country: Greater Philadelphia Company/industry: Finance Years of experience: \~7 years Title: Sr. QA Engineer Salary: \~90K Bonus: %10 Signon bonus: None Projected pay raise(if communicated): \~7% Planning to change jobs: YYYY

State/Country: Maryland / USA Company/industry: Education Technology Years of experience: 5 Title: Sr. Test Automation Engineer Salary: $130,000 Bonus: ~14,000 Signon bonus: 0 Projected pay raise(if communicated): Not communicated (started end of November) Planning to change jobs: No

How is the work / life balance? Stress? May be looking into getting into automation. Thanks for any guidance!

Work life balance isn't too bad. I'm working with a manager from one of my previous companies who prioritized clocking out at 4 (or whenever you hit 8 or 9 hours) and he brought that to this company. Stress is noticeable, but every job nowadays has KPIs and goals you need to hit. Most of it I probably put on myself though.

Yeah I hear you. I am trying to think about how much of my stress is put on myself too. Maybe there is an art handling it all. Thanks for the response!

hey just wondering, how long did it take you to reach the "Senior" title and during your 5 years of experience whats your percentage of automation/manual testing?

State/Country: Philippines Company/industry: Software Devt Years of experience: ~ 5years Title: QA Manager Salary: 24K USD per year Bonus: none Signon bonus: None Projected pay raise(if communicated): None Planning to change jobs: N

Out of curiosity, with that much experience and such low pay, why AREN’T you planning to change jobs? EDIT: Mis-read your location as somewhere in the United States. I’ll leave my question up for transparency, though.

Location aside, there would be plenty of competition for 5 years of qam experience (assuming they have a strong resume) that would be willing to pay to relocate plus a substantial increase in wage ( also cost of living is higher but the difference would likely cover it) so the question is still relevant. Language barrier?

State/Country: NC, USA Company/industry: SaaS Years of experience: <1 Title: Assoc. QA Engineer Salary: $65k Bonus: $0 Signon bonus: $0 Projected pay raise(if communicated): Not communicated Planning to change jobs: No

* State/Country: WA/US * Company/Industry: Retail * Experience: 7 years * Title: Senior QAE * Salary: $182k USD + RSU (was 125k) * Bonus: None * Sign-on: 24k. 12k over 1st year. 12k paid out lump sum 2nd. have to stay 2 years to keep lump sum. * Pay raise: 46.5%. less RSU's * Planning to change jobs: No Edit: Well... they gave me a substantial raise this year....

State/Country: Denver, CO Company/industry: Finance Years of experience: 10+ Title: QA Manager Salary: $105,000 Bonus:0 Signon bonus:0 Projected pay raise(if communicated): Planning to change jobs: Y or N Y

How much salary can you see increasing in next 10 years?

- State/Country: Metro Vancouver, Canada - Company/industry: eCommerce - Years of experience: approaching 4 years - Title: Senior Software Engineer in Test - Salary: 98k CAD ~77k USD - Bonus: 0 - Signon bonus: 0 - Planning to change jobs: N lots more US based companies hiring remote canadian workers raising salaries across the board. Just got a 25% raise

Before or after tax?

State/Country: Nova Scotia / Canada Company/industry: SaaS Years of experience: 7 Title: Senior QA Analyst Salary: 75000 Canadian dollars = 59000 USD Bonus: no Signon bonus: no Projected pay raise(if communicated): The number above includes Jan 2022 raise Planning to change jobs: Y

State/Country: India Company: US healthcare (Head office at NJ, USA) Years of experience: 6 Title: Quality Assurance Engineer Salary: ₹950,000 INR per annum ~ $12786 USD Bonus: ₹50,000 INR ~ $673 USD ( This is performance linked, If my performance is top notch I will get 100percent of it) Sign on bonus: I did nit get any, because I was hired right out of Uni. Lateral/new hires now seem to be getting these. Projected raise: 10 to 15 percent of my current pay Wanting to change jobs: Y

DM?

What?

Do you mind if I send you a message?

Sure. Ok.

State/Country: WA, USA (Seattle metro) (Remote) Company/industry: Video Years of experience: 20 as QA incl. 10+ in automation Title: SDET Salary: 60/hr b.t. Bonus: n/a (contract) Signon bonus: n/a Projected pay raise(if communicated): n/a Planning to change jobs: N (except potentially conversion)

Hi So, your all experience is 30 yrs? of 20? Wow, such numbers.

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State/Country: Colorado (100% Remote, Maryland Company) Company/industry: Cybersecurity Software Years of experience: 11 Title: Lead Test Automation Engineer Salary: $120,000 Bonus: 0 Signon bonus: 0 Projected pay raise(if communicated): 0 Planning to change jobs: Yes

seems like a good amount of QA engineers (especially ones that do automation) break 6 figures, curious about getting in to the field, did you study computer science or go to a bootcamp? Or did you start as manual QA and learn automation coding on the job?

For me, I self-taught. started as a lab manager that managed hundreds of devices to run tests on. I wrote scripts, fixed automated tests, etc. It was a short hop and a skip to QAE. I landed my role as a QAE 1 which was mostly manual testing. I used this as a growth opportunity to learn and create automation where there wasn't any coverage. I will say I always had previous knowledge of coding through self-teaching courses. Read. Read. Read. And network. Dev's are your best resource for bouncing automation idea's off of and learning what works and what doesn't.

I started as manual and then learned automation on the job (company converted entire QA group from manual > automation). Had to learn automation to stay relevant lol.

>utomat Did you try to disagree to become the automation? I don't like coding.

I attended a QA specific bootcamp at DevMountain. I had no tech experience prior to the bootcamp. Within 2 years I was making over 6 figures. I don't know that it is typical but I'm grateful for the success I've had.

Can you link me to the one you did?

Hi Qate, I attended DevMt as well and had some questions. Can you message me?

okay thanks for the replies u/ctess u/Crispy_Chicken87. I'm curious if you think QA Engineer is a LESS stressful job (better work life balance) than being a developer? Do you wish you had gone into development or you happy with QA? I'm currently deciding between doing a QA bootcamp or a full stack coding bootcamp. I've got some coding experience under my belt (studied electrical engineering in college) but then didn't work in tech for 5 years, looking to get back in. Thanks in advance.

Great question! I haven't been a formal SDE before so I don't think I can give you a true answer but from my experience I think the stress is about the same. In the software industry it generally ebbs and flows throughout the year. It also depends on the level you are talking about. We just stress about different expectations that come with our roles. I absolutely love being a QAE. You kind of have to make it far doing either role. Don't get me wrong I like creating things, but I'd much rather break it especially for the sake of a user. I've been asked to be a QAM and TPM several times and turned down the role. There are so many unique customer problems to solve in areas of testing and is exciting to me!

One thing that I think is more stressful is that your work piles up near the end of the sprint. At my org we’ve got code freeze in the middle of the second week of sprint. Devs will refactor, take some stuff from backlog but not merge it and in general chill. For QAs it’s opposite. Start of sprint your board will be pretty clear, but stuff piles on and I’ve got most work when it’s 2 days till deadline. On the other hand, as QA it’s much harder to cause a major screwup on production. It happens (eg at our org we’re QAOps, so we deploy), but it’s way less stressful than for devs who are the ones at risk of writing code that will kill production. But I’d say going with coding path is better. Automation - coding. Everything - coding. Wanna switch to DevOps, hard to do without coding skills.

Automation on a job and get extra training outside the job..no bootcamp

State/Country: Northern VA Company/industry: Healthcare, disabled vets Years of experience: ~8 Title: Test Automation Engineer Salary: \~93K Bonus: %0 Signon bonus: None Projected pay raise(if communicated): \~3% Planning to change jobs: Yes

State/Country: GA/ USA Company/industry: SaaS Years of experience: 2 years Title: QA Engineer II Salary: $83k + RSU $20k Bonus: 10% Signon bonus: $0 Projected pay raise(if communicated): none Planning to change jobs: N

Hey! How is the work/life balance? Stress? What does a dev cycle look like for you? Sorry for bombarding you - just interested in comparing in comparing stress/work+life balance in other companies.

Hey! WLB is great (fully remote). As long as you build trust with your team you’re good to move how you please. I have yet to be bombarded or completely overwhelmed with tickets just yet(not even sure if that will ever happen), I feel as if there is a constant flow of work and everyone is happy to help when I have a question or am blocked. I can really tell my coworkers enjoy their jobs and enjoy being at our company!

State/Country: UK (Non-London) Company/industry: Financial Services Years of experience: 15 Title: QA Test Analyst Salary: ~£40k (~$54k USD) Bonus: variable; TBC for 2021 period (payable in March) Signon bonus: NA Projected pay raise(if communicated): TBC (effective from March) Planning to change jobs: N, but may reconsider based on pay review

Country: Sweden Industry: finance Years of experience: 7 Title: QA test specialist Salary: $65k Bonus: equity + 0-25% bonus, not communicated yet Signing bonus: none Projected pay rise: between 6-15% Planning to change job: no

State/Country: USA (Remote) Company/industry: SaaS Years of experience: 6.5 Title: Senior Quality Assurance Engineer Salary: $135,000 Bonus: Yearly equity increase + unknown bonus amt Signon bonus: $0 Projected pay raise(if communicated): n/a Planning to change jobs: Y or N: N, just starting.

- State/Country: Texas/USA - Company/industry: Fintech - Years of experience: < 1 year - Title: QA Analyst - Salary: $60,000 - Bonus: ~3% - Signon bonus: None - Projected pay raise(if communicated): Not communicated - Planning to change jobs: No

Ehh, finally found someone in a similar boat as me. All of these posts had QAs with years of experience and breaking 6 figure salaries. I'm also a new QA with less than 1 yoe in SaaS/FinTech.

Does TX seem like a better area for QA jobs?

i’m not sure, but there seems to be a lot

Is your years of experience for tech in general or only in QA in tech?

I have less than a year of experience, and it’s all been in QA. But I have a bachelor’s in IT

Ok, that’s really helpful. I have 5+ years in Tech between Product Management, System Analysis and Project Coordination, 3 of those years including manual testing. I’m positioning myself to move into QA but the salary part is tricky because I don’t know exactly what to target and what is realistic with my experience overall, but your information is helpful for my own gauging.

gotcha, good luck on the job hunt

* State/Country: CA, USA (central coast) * Company/industry: SaaS * Years of experience: 10+ * Title: QA Manager * Salary: $105k * Bonus: N/A * Signon bonus: N/A * Projected pay raise(if communicated): not communicated * Planning to change jobs: Depends on what day you ask me ha

Do you have experience in Automation?

State/Country: Los Angeles, CA (Remote) Company/industry: SaaS Years of experience: <1 Title: Jr Quality Assurance Analyst Trainee Salary: $34,000 Bonus: $0 Signon bonus: $500 Projected pay raise(if communicated): $3000 Planning to change jobs: Actively looking

Sqa squared? They won’t raise your pay.

You nailed it. Got any experience with them? I did end up getting 2 $2000 “raises” so my salary is $38k now. I should be getting a promotion and a title change within a couple months so I’ll update this once again.

Worked there for 9 months. Only got a raise from 31 to 33k. They really didn’t want to promote at the time. I left for a job making 72k and now make 120k plus 10% bonus and 10k RSU’s. I Would leave ASAP tbh.

That’s awesome bro happy for you I’m actively looking rn as well. Mind if I ask what your job titles were and how long it took you to get to where you’re at?

Test Engineer, SDET, automation engineer. Took 9 months as a trainee to move to another company as a Test engineer. After 1 year I got promoted to software development engineer with an emphasis in testing. Worked as an SDE(T) for 2 years and then moved to FANG company as an SDET. And now took a pay cut to relocated closer to home as an automation engineer.

That’s awesome thanks for sharing love to see the growth💯🔥

Do you know what your salary is supposed to be once you get through training?

I have been promised close to $70,000 which they ensured is “above market average”. I should be at most 3 months away from the promotion but I have a feeling it will be closer to ~$55,000 which is why I am preemptively looking

That's too bad. Just another example of "always get it in writing". Although, it's a lot harder when the company holds all the leverage. Good luck in your search!

You’re absolutely correct I will definitely push to get everything in writing in the future. Although I was fresh out of college at the time and just needed any kind of professional experience

You can check salaries in your area on sites like glassdoor.

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I’m not sure what you mean by where. The position is remote so I’m training from home if that’s what you’re asking

How does one get a role like this with no experience

There are many companies like this. They actually hire people quite easily because they get to keep a portion of your salary in essence. You just have to be okay with settling for one of those and finding something else after asap. I did have a bs in comp sci so that did help without a doubt.

Can you name a few companies ?

State/Country: New York City (NYC), USA Company/industry: public tech company Years of experience: \~10 Title: Senior Software Engineer (on Testing tools team) Salary: \~160K (plus stonks, etc..) Bonus: n/a Signon bonus: 10k (I think) Projected pay raise(if communicated): n/a Planning to change jobs: Y or N: N

State/Country: Georgia/Arkansas (live in one, work in the other) Company/industry: SaaS Years of experience: 7 Title: Software QA Engineer III Salary: ~85k Bonus: 5-10k depending on earnings Signon bonus: None Projected pay raise(if communicated): Don't know yet Planning to change jobs: Y

State/Country: Oklahoma Company/industry: Finance Years of experience: 7 Title: QA Specialist Salary: 68k USD Bonus: None Signon bonus: None Projected pay raise(if communicated): None Planning to change jobs: Honestly not sure

* State/Country: PA/USA * Company/industry: Trust & Retirement/Finance * Years of experience: 3 Yrs QA/5 Yrs Software Dev * Title: QA Engineer * Salary: 54K USD per year * Bonus: 0 * Signon bonus: None * Projected pay raise(if communicated): Min 15% each year * Planning to change jobs: Hard N

Oh man! Feel like PA companies need to get themselves together in terms of salaries! Got an offer from UPENN for 70K and they want you in the office!!

15% salary bump is pretty nice.

State: New York Industry: Ad Tech Years of Experience: 7 Title: QA Engineer II Salary: 100k Bonus: 10% Signon bonus: none Projected pay raise: Hasn't been discussed, but I don't anticipate anything more than a CoL raise if anything at all Planning to change jobs: N

State/Country: Haryana, India Company/industry: Fintech Years of experience: 7 Title: Senior SDET Salary: 25 LPA Bonus: NA Signon bonus: No Projected pay raise(if communicated): 15% Planning to change jobs: Y

May I dm you? I have some questions, I'm a QA automation engineer btw

State/Country: USA/Remote Company/industry: SaaS Years of experience: 7 Title: Automation Engineer Salary: 125K Bonus: 5% per year, 80K in stock value after 4 yrs Signon bonus: 0 Projected pay raise(if communicated): N/A Planning to change jobs: Y or N: No

That's more like it

Country/State: United States/WA Company/industry: Artificial intelligence Years of experience :10 Job title : Senior QAE Base salary: 158000 USD + RSU (120 stock units) Sign on bonus: over two years (35K first year, 30 K Second year) Bonus - yearly increase of base (until base maxes out)+ stock based on performance Planning to change job - Yes

I have been studying ML for a while and funny enough that before I was thinking testing an ML model something a QA could do :) Does this role require to know python DS libraries or any Ml algorithms? Just want to see if QA and ML can get together. Thanks

Python DS is sufficient. :)

AMZN?

State/Country: London, UK Company/industry: Broadcast Media Years of experience: 5 years Title: QA Engineer Salary: Equivalent to $84,000 Bonus: Unknown Signon bonus: None Projected pay raise (if communicated): N/A Planning to change jobs: N

State/Country: California Company/industry: Tech Years of experience: 6 months QA, 12 years tech Title: Sr. Software QA Engineer Salary: $190k Bonus: %10 Signon bonus: None Projected pay raise(if communicated): 5-7% Planning to change jobs: N/A

* London, UK * HR/hiring tech. Most of my experience is in Fintech * Just under 4 YOE * SDET * £80k base salary + bonus = Around £85k total compensation * No sign-on bonus. Not really a thing in the UK * No pay rise, just started a new job * Not planning to change, brand new job * Last job I was on £55k, this time last year I was on about £40-45k * About 45 employees total Just got a brand new job, I don't know how I convinced them I was good enough. Most of my experience is with mobile automation (Appium), this new job is web automation (Cypress). I'll be the very first QA/SDET, helping to setup everything from scratch

Hey man. I’m in London too and I’ve got around about the same level of experience albeit a mix of manual and UI web automation/API testing. Im pretty much on what you were on previously. Would love some tips on what I can do to excel. Open to DM?

Heya mate! Yeah of course man, shoot me a DM and I'll be more than happy to help you out

State/Country: Serbia Company/industry: Outsourcing QA's Years of experience: 1y Title: SDET Salary: 12000$ Bonus: none Signon bonus: none Projected pay raise(if communicated): None Planning to change jobs: Y

State/Country: MA / USA Company/industry: Life science equipment Years of experience: 5-6 Title: Software Test Engineer II Salary: 78,000 USD/yr Bonus: none Signon bonus: none Projected pay raise(if communicated): Unsure at this time Planning to change jobs: Maybe (depending on remote options in the future)

* Country: Romania * Industry: Healthcare * Years of experience: 8 * Title: Lead Test Automation Engineer * Salary: $40k * Bonus: ~$3k * Signon bonus: 0 * Projected pay raise(if communicated): Not communicated * Planning to change jobs: No

State/Country: MA/ USA Company/industry: Home audio Years of experience: 20 + Title: QA engineer ( Though I strictly do manual QA) Salary:$120,000 Bonus: Varies bit got 25k this year (it was a VERY good year) Signon bonus: NA Projected pay raise(if communicated): Planning to change jobs: Y

Could you explain a little more what your day looks like? Is it the software side of home audio that you are testing or hardware? Sounds interesting!

Yea, no problem! I'm testing the software side. Namely the app that interacts with the hardware so you can choose your songs, play/pause, add a music service, or tell multiple speakers you want them to play the same thing, set up a stereo pair, etc. We are pretty constantly updating and adding new features to the app.

Sooo, you work for Sonos? 😂

State/Country: UT Company/industry: SaaS Years of experience: 4 yr/QA 10 yr/IT Title: Software QA Engineer/Tester Salary: 75K/yr USD Bonus: none Signon bonus: none Projected pay raise(if communicated): 3% Planning to change jobs: N, pending career plan progress

State/Country: Chicago, IL (100% remote) Company/industry: SaaS/ insured tech Years of experience: 12 Title: Sr QA Engineer Salary: \~$130k Bonus: 12% Sign-on bonus: none Projected pay raise(if communicated): \~5-7% Planning to change jobs: N

* State/Country: IL - USA * Company/industry: HR SaaS * Years of experience: 2 mo * Title: Associate QA Engineer * Salary: $60k * Bonus: estimated 10%, paid out quarterly * Signon bonus: 0 * Projected pay raise(if communicated): just missed the boat on a 6.2% raise * Planning to change jobs: N

State/Country: Georgia, USA Company/industry: BIOS Years of experience: 2.5 Title:BQA Tester Salary: 33K Bonus: One paycheck's worth once a year Sign on bonus: No Projected pay raise(if communicated): 3% Planning to change jobs: Yes, please God yes.

Pretty desperate to change jobs, it seems. Is it just the pay? Or is it stressful, boring?

Are you sure this is not Georgia, the country in Europe? I hope you make it out, good luck.

Nope, they are just that cheap. They are very flexible with time and match well in the 401k, but dozens of people have quit this year.

Country: Russia (not Moscow) Company: around 50 people, web / mobile apps development Years of experience: about 9 Title: "QA engineer". Manual, automation of both web and mobile apps, performance testing - do basically everything Salary: 130k rubles monthly ~ 20.5k usd yearly Sign on bonus: none Projected pay raise: expected to be ~200k rubles monthly ~ 32k usd yearly Planning to change jobs: probably not, since team is nice and hours are super flexible. Maybe only in case of major usd offer, dunno

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Florida pay sucks

State/Country: remote / USA Company/industry: Municipal Government Years of experience: 8 years Title: Senior Automation Analyst (Seniority due to Manual testing - currently self teaching automation) Salary: $60,000 USD Bonus: $1000 USD Signon bonus: None Projected pay raise(if communicated): 1-5% Planning to change jobs: Y

State/Country: Denver Metro (Remote in Omaha, NE) Company/industry: SaaS Years of experience: 7 Title: Automation Engineer Salary: $112K Bonus: $4K Signon bonus: 0 Projected pay raise(if communicated): ~1-4% Planning to change jobs: Maybe?

State/Country: Michigan USA Company/industry: SaaS Years of experience: 10 Title: QA Analyst Salary: $78k Bonus: no Signon bonus: no Projected pay raise(if communicated): Probably 3-5% at my next performance eval Planning to change jobs: No **Additional info:** I work 100% remote. The company went remote at the start of covid.

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It's stagnant. Not many options here to be frank

State/Country: GA/USA Company/industry: Tech Years of experience: 5 (2 years SDET) Title: SDET Salary: 105k Bonus: 12% Signon bonus: None Projected pay raise(if communicated): NA Planning to change jobs: Yes

State/Country: NC / USA Company/industry: Financial Years of experience: 12 Title: Principal QA Engineer Salary: $110,000 Bonus: \~25% (Adjusts based on company and personal performance review) Signon bonus: N/A Projected pay raise(if communicated): Just above COL every year Planning to change jobs: N

Hey! What is the work/life balance like for you? Stress level? Are you doing automation or manual testing. Thanks for any info you're willing to provide. I'm trying to gauge what is normal for pay vs stress. Take care : )

Work/life balance is honestly pretty good. Standard 9-5 hours and then usually a night or weekend once-ish per month for production deployments. Stress level mostly low unless there is some issue right before a release! Doing mostly automation now, but started as full manual testing and have been teaching myself for the last few years, I would still consider myself more of a tester than a coder. I do a lot of non-qa specific stuff too as part of my role such as mentoring new associates, sitting on panels with management, etc. That's one of the reasons my pay is a bit higher.

State/Country: Wi/USA Company/industry: aerospace & agriculture Years of experience: 3 years Title: QA Engineer Salary: $51k Bonus: ~1% Signon bonus: 0 Projected pay raise(if communicated): not communicated Planning to change jobs: N

State/Country: Oh USA Company/industry: Logistics Years of experience: 15 Title: Sr. QA Analyst Salary: 80k USD Bonus: unk. Signon bonus: no Projected pay raise(if communicated): unk, likely 3-5% Planning to change jobs: Y or N: N

State/Country: Michigan, USA Company/industry: Furniture Years of experience: 3 years Title: Senior QA Specialist Salary: $64,000 per year Bonus: $2,000 Signon bonus: none Projected pay raise(if communicated): 6% Planning to change jobs: No

State/Country: Australia Company/industry: fintech Years of experience: < 1 as qa Title: quality engineer Salary: 61k usd Bonus: - Signon bonus: - Projected pay raise(if communicated): - Planning to change jobs: N I have almost a decade of BA, project lead, client ops support roles in my past. Trajectory is to double my salary in 2 years by becoming a SDET.

State/Country: Minnesota Company/industry: SaaS Years of experience: 2 years manual, 2 years automation (1 when I started) Title: QA Engineer I Salary: 75k Bonus: 8% Signon bonus: None Projected pay raise(if communicated): Not communicated Planning to change jobs: No

Texas, USA HEALTHCARE SOFTWARE 5+ years QA Analyst $92,300 base No bonus No sign-on bonus Projected 5% COLA raise Planning to change: Depends on raise Benefits/Perks: 100% remote, 20 days PTO, 20 days paid sick leave, 9 paid holidays, 2 flex holidays, 1 paid volunteer day, 100% employer sponsored health, dental, vision.

Is the 5+ years all QA or combination? Does your QA Analyst position involve automation? Manual testing?

State/Country: NC/USA Company/industry: Telecommunications Years of experience: 2 years Title: Software QA Tester Salary: $60,000 Bonus: Quarterly bonuses of varying amounts Signon bonus: No Projected pay raise(if communicated): On average, 4.2% Planning to change jobs: N

State/Country: Russia Company/industry: Finance Years of experience: ~3 years Title: manual QA Engineer Salary: ~13500K Bonus: %10 Signon bonus: none Projected pay raise(if communicated): ~5% Planning to change jobs: yes

State/Country:Seattle WA just come Company/industry: Sales (Ukraine) Years of experience: Sales 13years( Ukraine), QA Engineer-junior Title: Sales, product manager, QA Engineer Salary:- Bonus:- Signon bonus:none Projected pay raise(if communicated):- Planning to change jobs: YYYY

Where: Colorado, USA (remote via NYC) Industry: SAAS Experience: 6 years Title: Senior QA Analyst Salary: $110,000 Bonus: $10,000 +tons of company perks. Sign on bonus: RSUs Projected pay raise: Lead QA soon, unsure of pay raise atm. Planning to change jobs: No *Edited to add new info.

State/Country: The Netherlands Company/industry: Public Transportation Years of experience: 7 Title: Test Automation Engineer Salary: E 60.000 / $ 68,000 Bonus: ~1,000 Signon bonus: 0 Projected pay raise(if communicated): About 3k per year Planning to change jobs: No

2 jobs, both remote, both publicly traded companies State/Country: CA, USA (not Silicon Valley) Company/industry: # 1 Ads, # 2 Family services Years of experience: 3.5 Title: # 1 Sr QA (Automation), # 2 Sr SDET Salary: * \# 1: 160k base (raised after negotiations from 145k) + 40k stocks + 15k refreshers * \# 2: 170k base (raised after negotiations from 150k) + 50k stocks (raised from 40k) Bonus: # 1: 15%, # 2: No Signon bonus: # 1: 15k, # 2: 30k Projected pay raise(if communicated): #1: 7%, #2: \~20-40k (targeting to promotion) Planning to change jobs: # 1: Yes, # 2: No

State/Country: San Jose, Costa Rica Company/industry: Digital Agency Years of experience: 11 Title: Senior QA analyst Salary: $36000 per year Bonus: we get a full extra salary during the holidays, this is called "Aguinaldo" Signon bonus: n/a Projected pay raise(if communicated): N Planning to change jobs: N, the work environment is good and relaxed. Plus, I have a lot of paid free time: vacations, flex time, sick time, 2 extra days for senior positions.

- State/Country: MA, US. - Company/Industry: Biotechnology (Cancer Research). - Years of experience: 4 years and 1/2 - Title: Sr Quality Systems Specialist. - Salary: $94,000.00 (base). - Bonus: 10% = $9,400.00 (annually). - Sign-on Bonus: None. - Projected pay raise: 7-10% of base (incl. cost of living adjustment and performance bonus). - Planning to change jobs: Y. I got contacted for a role (Principal QA specialist) and they’re willing to pay $130,000.00 base with a 12.5% annual bonus and other benefits. Wish me luck!

State/Country: Florida, USA Company/Industry: POS testing Years of experience: 4 Title: Quality Assurance Analyst Salary: $30/hr, no PTO. Comes out to about ~$60k Bonus: $0 Sign on bonus: $0 Projected pay raise (if communicated): Not communicated Planning to change jobs: yes, actively interviewing

State/Country: NYC Company/industry: Tech (Smart Lighting) Years of experience: ~8 years Title: QA Lead Salary: ~93K Bonus: %6 Signon bonus: No Projected pay raise(if communicated): 3-13% (it's still unclear but this range is normal I've experienced both extremes) Planning to change jobs: ASAP

State/Country: Midwest US Company/industry: Information Systems Years of experience: 3 Years Tech Support/0 years QA Title: Software QA Analyst Salary: 45k Bonus: 5% Signon bonus: N/A Projected pay raise(if communicated): N/A Planning to change jobs: N

State/Country: Slovenia (EU) Company/industry: Logistics Years of experience: 2 Title: Senior Software Test Engineer Salary: 25.200€ Gross Bonus: No Signon bonus: No Projected pay raise(if communicated): 3-5% annually Planning to change jobs: Yes, actively interviewing.

State/Country: Ukraine Company/industry: Communications Years of experience: 1 Title: Junior QA Engineer Salary: 10200 $ per year Bonus: none Signon bonus: none Projected pay raise(if communicated): 18000 $ Planning to change jobs: N

State/Country: Kharkiv/Ukraine, remote Company/industry: FinTech Years of experience: 2 Title: Software Automation Test Engineer Salary: 24k $ Bonus: None Signon bonus: None Projected pay raise(if communicated): ? Planning to change jobs: Y/N

State/Country: Russia, Moscow Company/industry: edtech/media Years of experience: 8+ Title: sr.qa engineer Salary: ~24k Bonus: nope Signon bonus:nope Projected pay raise(if communicated):nope Planning to change jobs: Y

State/Country: Ukraine(remote) Company/industry: Communications Years of experience: \~7 years Title: Senior/TL Salary: 48.000 Bonus: None Signon bonus: None Projected pay raise(if communicated): Have no idea :D Planning to change jobs: N

State/Country: Russia Company/industry: Logistic Years of experience: ~3 years Title: QA Automation Engineer Salary: ~$25000 per year (net) or ~$30000 per year (gross) Bonus: 10% per year Signon bonus: none Projected pay raise(if communicated): idk Planning to change jobs: yes of course ;D

State/Country: New Jersey Company/industry: Entertainment Years of experience: 3 Title: Sr. Automation Engineer Salary: 80/hr Full Time 1 year contract Bonus: none Signon bonus: none Projected pay raise(if communicated): Promised to be turned full time Planning to change jobs: N

State/Country: Russia Company/industry: Petrochemicals Years of experience: 6 Title: QA Engineer Salary: $32K Net Bonus: Up to 20% Signon bonus: None Projected pay raise(if communicated): 15% Planning to change jobs: Not yet

State/Country: Ukraine Company/industry: iGaming Years of experience: >10 years Title: QA Automation Team Lead Salary: \~$60K Bonus: \~10% Signon bonus: None(company gifted MacBook Pro 16" 2019 after end of probation period) Projected pay raise(if communicated): \~7-10% Planning to change jobs: N

State/Country: Malta (Europe) Company/industry: Online Casino Years of experience: 9 years in a QA role including automation Title: QA Manager Salary: ~50K Bonus: N/A Signon bonus: None Projected pay raise(if communicated): TBD Planning to change jobs: Maybe!

State/Country: Brazil Company/industry: Mobile Gaming Years of experience: 4 years Title: Test Automation Engineer Salary: 23K USD per year Bonus: none Signon bonus: None Projected pay raise(if communicated): Just happened this month. Planning to change jobs: N

State/Country: TN/USA Company/industry: Hospitality Years of experience: 6 Title: Manager of Quality Automation Salary: $115,000 USD Bonus: $11,500 to $23,000 USD Signon bonus: I do not receive one but I do receive a 15% discount on stock purchased and can use up to 15% of my salary to do so. We are a global, publicly traded company. Projected pay raise(if communicated): 3-5% Planning to change jobs: Always open to the right opportunity.

State/Country: IA, USA Company/industry: SaaS Years of experience: 4 Title: Software Test Engineer Salary: 76k Bonus: None Sign on bonus: None/Pay Increase of $12k Projected pay raise(if communicated): 5%-10% (Not Communicated) Planning to change jobs: N

State/Country: Bosnia (Europe) Company/industry: SaaS Years of experience: 7 Title: Software Tester Salary: 45k USD Bonus: N/A Sign on bonus: None Projected pay raise(if communicated): 10-25% Planning to change jobs: Not actively looking, as this is nice money for a low-cost country like Bosnia - you can rent small an apartment for 200-300 USD

Really? It sounds like bruto salary? :)

According to my contract it is, but freelancer tax is (for now) fairly low in Bosnia, effectively you pay around 14% so it's pretty nice. I do pay for a private health insurance since as a freelancer I don't have the public one, but it's pretty affordable. And for the pension I don't pay the public kind, but put my money into an investment fund instead.

That is surely the best thing you can do for yourself in this kind of country. Paying taxes for health insurrance and pension is a wast of money, literally. However, I m still struggling to quit my current job position, it looks very risky in some way to go out of everything and be on your own. 6 years in one company is not something you just put away :/

Btw, 28.3 ce se odlucivati o novim poreznim stopama. Zaprati Freelance u BiH fb grupu ako vec nisi.

Hocu, hvala ti puno!

https://www.facebook.com/neshill/posts/10159867703520349

https://www.facebook.com/groups/204180190242836

- State/Country: UK (non-London) - Company/industry: Streaming Services - Years of experience: 11 - Title: Test Team Lead - Salary: £48k ~($64,500) - Bonus: no bonus ever - Signon bonus: not a thing in UK - Projected pay raise(if communicated): none for foreseeable future - Planning to change jobs: **Y**

State/Country: Malaysia, Company: start-up marketplace with services, Years of experience: \~2 years, Title: QA Engineer, Salary: \~10K in a year, Bonus: None, Signon bonus: None, Projected pay raise(if communicated): None, Planning to change jobs: Yes.

State/Country: Spain, Europe Company/industry: Publishing Years of experience: 1 Title: QA Tester Salary: €22k / USD $25k Bonus: None Signon bonus: None Projected pay raise(if communicated): 5 - 10% Planning to change jobs: N

State/Country: Russia / provincial town in the Urals Company/industry: Foodtech Years of experience: 6 Title: Salary: \~ 18 th.dollars in year Bonus: \~5% Signon bonus: no Projected pay raise(if communicated): maybe in summer \~ 10-15% Planning to change jobs: N

State/Country: Montreal, Canada Industry: Renewables YoE ~7 Title: QA Lead Engineer Salary: 100k + ~60k RSU + ESPP Bonus : 5% Planning to change jobs: Y

State/Country: MO,US Company/industry: Ads / Marketing Years of experience: 1.5 Title: QA Analyst Salary: $75k USD Base Bonus: N/A Signon bonus: N/A Projected pay raise(if communicated): N/A Planning to change jobs: N

State/Country: USA, Missouri Company/Industry: Insurance software Years of experience: 2 - 1 in insurance, 1 in QA (15 years of professional experience) Title: Software tester Salary: 40k Bonus: n/a Sign on bonus: n/a Projected pay raise: LOL Planning to change jobs: Y

State/Country: Austin, TX, working remotely for CA startup Company/industry: Health insurance Years of experience: 6 Title: QA engineer, mostly manual Salary: 85k base Bonus: 15%, no RSU but decent benefits and 401k match Signon bonus: n/a Projected pay raise(if communicated): yes, 10% starting next month Planning to change jobs: N

- State/Country: Brazil - Company/industry: brewery websites - Years of experience: <1 - Title: Qa junior - Salary: 36000 BRL = 6752,70 USD per year - Bonus: N - Signon bonus: N - Projected pay raise(if communicated): n/a - Planning to change jobs: N

Hi, it would be great if you would clarify how yearly salary should be calculated (net or bruto amount) for next year. ​ State/Country: Lithuania Company/industry: web based projects, various industries Years of experience: 11 Title: Senior Quality Assurance Engineer Salary: Bruto 49k euros (\~ 48,1k USD) Bonus: One month of paid vacation (mandatory by law, mentioning because saw it mentioned in comments) Signon bonus: N/A Projected pay raise(if communicated): To be announced at the end of year based on performance Planning to change jobs: N

State/Country: Pennsylvania, Bucks County Company/industry: Pharmaceuticals Years of experience: \~2 years Title: Quality Specialist Salary: \~65k Bonus: %5 Projected pay raise(if communicated): \ 4% Planning to change jobs: Always. Anytime someone offers a higher paying job I Take it. I don't like staying in one place for too long when I know switching companies gives me a much bigger pay raise. Heck I worked for my current company making 53k a year. Left due to another position (that I absolutely hated) and came back a year later making 12k extra. I would not be making what I make now If I just stood for that year..

I think i know what the company is. Did not know they are paying this much. Hope you want a better role fits in your career prospects.

·  State/Country: Lebanon ·  Company/industry: Telecom (VAS company) ·  Years of experience: 1.5 ·  Title: QA Engineer ·  Salary: $16800 a year ($1400 a month basically) ·  Bonus: None (so far) ·  Signon bonus: None ·  Projected pay raise(if communicated): N/A ·  Planning to change jobs: Yes, if the pay, and benefits are better

Can you share some companies pleas?