Data Engineer vs QA Software Tester
Pay, skills and open jobs side by side, from current job postings across the US.
Pay
Data Engineer
$150,000 typical, a year
Most Data Engineers earn $126,800 to $176,700 a year.
From 1,279 postings that list pay
2,959 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
Data Engineers typically earn about $30,000 more a year than QA Software Testers.
What each one does
Data Engineer
- Design and build scalable data pipelines to ingest and process large datasets.
- Develop and maintain data models using SQL and transformation tools.
- Implement data quality controls and monitoring to ensure system reliability.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
- Optimize data systems for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
- Document data architectures and provide technical guidance to the team.
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
Data Engineer
Asked for in both
- Python 6 in 10 postings
More common in Data Engineer postings
- SQL 6 in 10 postings
- Data Engineering 6 in 10 postings
- Data Pipeline 4 in 10 postings
- Data Modeling 4 in 10 postings
- AWS 3 in 10 postings
- Databricks 3 in 10 postings
- ETL/ELT 3 in 10 postings
- Snowflake 3 in 10 postings
- Data Warehousing 3 in 10 postings
QA Software Tester
Asked for in both
- Python 3 in 10 postings
More common in QA Software Tester postings
- Test Automation 6 in 10 postings
- CI/CD 5 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
Data Engineer
Mid Data Engineer
Imaginary SpacePay not stated US RemotePostgreSQLAmazon RedshiftKubernetesPythonMongoDB +10- Pay not stated Plano, TXTerraformLookerApache AirflowCI/CDSnowflake +41
- Pay not stated San Jose RemotePythonApache AirflowPostgreSQLSQLMySQL +7
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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