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30 tools · 6 languages · 4,012 tracked listings

QA skills and tools employers ask for

Every tool and language below shows how many real QA listings mention it, which roles use it, what those roles pay, a five-step learning path and the interview questions that go with it. Prefer to practise? Use the free QA tools: interview questions, a level test, a CV checker and a cost calculator.

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The ten most requested tools

Number of listings that name the tool in their stack, out of 4,012 tracked.

Tools

All 30 tools by category

Web automation

Playwright

Playwright is an open-source browser automation library and test runner from Microsoft.

1337 listings2 roles

Selenium

Selenium is the long-standing open-source standard for browser automation.

1393 listings1 roles

Cypress

Cypress is a JavaScript and TypeScript test framework that runs inside the browser alongside your app.

819 listings2 roles

WebdriverIO

WebdriverIO is a Node.js test framework that speaks both the WebDriver and WebDriver BiDi protocols.

11 listings0 roles

TestCafe

TestCafe is a Node.js end-to-end testing tool that does not use WebDriver.

3 listings0 roles

Keyword-driven

Robot Framework

Robot Framework is an open-source, keyword-driven automation framework written in Python.

55 listings0 roles

Low-code

Katalon

Katalon is a commercial low-code test automation platform built on Selenium and Appium.

33 listings0 roles

Mobile automation

Appium

Appium is an open-source framework for automating native, hybrid and mobile web apps on iOS and Android.

279 listings1 roles

Espresso

Espresso is Google's Android UI testing framework in the AndroidX Test library.

38 listings1 roles

XCUITest

XCUITest is Apple's UI testing framework built on XCTest and included in Xcode.

21 listings1 roles

API testing

Postman

Postman is an API platform for building, sending and testing HTTP requests.

1062 listings7 roles

REST Assured

REST Assured is a Java library with a fluent given-when-then DSL for testing REST APIs.

291 listings1 roles

BDD

Cucumber / BDD

Cucumber is a behaviour-driven development tool that runs plain-language scenarios written in Gherkin.

257 listings0 roles

Performance

JMeter

Apache JMeter is an open-source Java load-testing tool.

362 listings1 roles

k6

k6 is an open-source load-testing tool from Grafana Labs.

139 listings2 roles

Gatling

Gatling is a load-testing tool whose simulations are code in Scala, Java, Kotlin or JavaScript.

32 listings1 roles

LoadRunner

LoadRunner is a commercial enterprise performance-testing suite from OpenText, formerly Micro Focus.

26 listings1 roles

Security

Burp Suite

Burp Suite is the standard intercepting-proxy toolkit for web security testing, made by PortSwigger.

43 listings1 roles

OWASP ZAP

OWASP ZAP is a free, open-source web application security scanner and intercepting proxy.

28 listings1 roles

Accessibility

axe / WAVE

axe and WAVE are automated accessibility checkers.

134 listings1 roles

CI/CD

Jenkins

Jenkins is an open-source, self-hosted automation server.

339 listings2 roles

GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions is the CI/CD service built into GitHub.

168 listings3 roles

GitLab CI

GitLab CI/CD is GitLab's built-in pipeline system.

72 listings1 roles

Infrastructure

Docker

Docker packages software and its dependencies into containers that run the same way everywhere.

324 listings5 roles

Management

Jira

Jira is Atlassian's issue and project tracker.

1551 listings10 roles

TestRail

TestRail is a web-based test case management tool.

528 listings4 roles

Xray

Xray is a test management app that runs inside Jira.

171 listings2 roles

Device cloud

BrowserStack

BrowserStack is a cloud platform that gives you real browsers and real mobile devices on demand.

59 listings3 roles

Game testing

Unity Test Framework

The Unity Test Framework is Unity's package for automated tests.

115 listings1 roles

Language

Python

Python is a general-purpose programming language that is popular in QA for automation, API testing, data checks and AI evaluation.

790 listings1 roles

Languages

Programming languages used in QA

Which language to learn depends on the tools your target employers use. Demand counts listings that name a tool written mainly in that language.

Java

Java is a statically typed, object-oriented language on the JVM.

SeleniumPlaywrightAppiumREST Assured

1704 listingslearning path

Python

Python is a dynamically typed language with readable syntax.

PlaywrightSeleniumRobot FrameworkAppium

820 listingslearning path

TypeScript and JavaScript

TypeScript is JavaScript with static types.

PlaywrightCypressWebdriverIOTestCafe

1505 listingslearning path

C#

C# is a statically typed language for the .NET platform.

SeleniumPlaywrightUnity Test Framework

115 listingslearning path

Kotlin

Kotlin is a modern JVM language and the preferred language for Android development.

EspressoAppiumGatling

38 listingslearning path

Swift

Swift is Apple's language for iOS, iPadOS, macOS and tvOS.

21 listingslearning path

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Playwright, Selenium, Cypress

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Playwright, REST Assured, Docker

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Jira, TestRail, Xray

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