Cloud Engineer vs QA Software Tester
Pay, skills and open jobs side by side, from current job postings across the US.
Pay
Cloud Engineer
$151,800 typical, a year
Most Cloud Engineers earn $127,500 to $176,900 a year.
From 1,307 postings that list pay
2,530 open jobs now
QA Software Tester
$120,000 typical, a year
Most QA Software Testers earn $102,500 to $146,700 a year.
From 423 postings that list pay
1,288 open jobs now
Cloud Engineers typically earn about $31,800 more a year than QA Software Testers.
What each one does
Cloud Engineer
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure deployments.
- Manage and provision cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code tools.
- Monitor system health, performance, and availability using observability tools.
- Respond to alerts, outages, and incidents to restore service.
- Implement and maintain security best practices and access controls.
- Collaborate with software, data, and facilities teams to support environments.
Summed up from 30 job postings
QA Software Tester
- Develop and maintain automated tests for software applications.
- Execute functional and regression testing on software products.
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
- Collaborate with developers and product teams to identify issues.
- Document test results and track defects through resolution.
- Analyze requirements to design test plans and test cases.
Summed up from 30 job postings
Skills employers ask for
Cloud Engineer
Asked for in both
- CI/CD 6 in 10 postings
- Python 4 in 10 postings
More common in Cloud Engineer postings
- Terraform 6 in 10 postings
- AWS 6 in 10 postings
- Kubernetes 6 in 10 postings
- Infrastructure as Code 5 in 10 postings
- DevOps 4 in 10 postings
- Azure 4 in 10 postings
- Docker 3 in 10 postings
- Observability 3 in 10 postings
QA Software Tester
Asked for in both
- CI/CD 5 in 10 postings
- Python 3 in 10 postings
More common in QA Software Tester postings
- Test Automation 6 in 10 postings
- Selenium 4 in 10 postings
- Test Planning 4 in 10 postings
- Software Testing 4 in 10 postings
- Regression Testing 3 in 10 postings
- Jira 3 in 10 postings
- Agile 3 in 10 postings
Out of each role's current postings.
Open jobs
Cloud Engineer
Senior Cloud Engineer
Careerpuck$184k - $230k/yrstated San Francisco, CA (Remote)ObservabilityInfrastructure as CodeTCP/IPDomain Name SystemAWS +9Terraform Platform Engineer (GCP)
Ntt Data$105,840 - $196k/yrstated Plano, US-TX, United States RemoteTerraformGoogle Cloud PlatformAccess ControlInfrastructure as CodeCI/CD +4Senior Azure Cloud Engineer
Lightfeather IO LLC$130k - $170k/yrstated Washington, DC HybridDockerTerraformKubernetesCI/CDGitLab CI +12
QA Software Tester
Sr. QA Automation Engineer
CenterfieldPay not stated Los Angeles, California HybridAWSJavaScriptJenkinsPythonJava +3IT, Software Quality Assurance Engineer
AbilitylinksPay not stated Scottsdale, AZ, United StatesJavaTest AutomationRegression TestingC#Manual Testing +1Business Quality Assurance Lead
HealthEZ$110k - $125k/yrstated Minnesota - Minneapolis, MN 55439SQLUser Acceptance TestingIntegration TestingTest ManagementAccess Control +6
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