Automation tester Salary

PenguinForce

Hi all,

Normally when people talk about salary in software development they often focus on developer salaries.

I'm curious what is a "good" salary for QA automation engineer?

After graduating from computer science and never having a huge confidence in my coding I took the job as a manual tester. An opportunity came along and I started doing automation using Java/Selenium/TestNg. Then my job became both manual and automation testing.

I stayed in that company for 6.5 years and was on 43K(I know that's a long time and low salary) and I recently changed job and I'm now on 55K.

The current company doesn't really have "levels" for employees but I consider that a mid level salary.

I know different company pay scale is different but what is the general salary for this type of job in Ireland and what is the typical salary ceiling for it?

AnswerIs42

Most IT salary guides have a section for QA which might give you an idea of figures.

This is gempool's one: https://www.gempool.ie/insights/tech-industry-salary-guide-dublin

nullObjects

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058226790/automation-tester-salary

If you can find a way to learn performance testing (something like JMeter) or more backend test tools I think you'll be able to command a higher salary if you were to move. Automation engineers tend to learn a lot of scripting stuff as well used in pipeline and the like so you could think of something like DevOps either which seems to be popular at the moment