QA Engineer
Strata Decision Technology · Chicago, IL
$68,000–$80,000from the description
Jul 1, 2026
Chicago, IL
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A QA Engineer role focused on testing software products built for healthcare, financial, and higher education sectors. Day-to-day work involves writing and maintaining test cases, identifying and tracking defects, performing regression testing, and building automated test coverage — including with AI-assisted tooling. The role suits someone early in their QA career who has hands-on experience with test automation frameworks, SQL, and Agile workflows.
Junior level · 1+ years · Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 830 people in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software quality assurance analysts and testers). range 620–1,050
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $107,902 (middle half $85,142–$133,799). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The role requires only 1–2 years of professional QA experience, placing it firmly at the Junior level despite no level word in the title.
Test automation tools and frameworks are required but no specific product is named (e.g., Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, TestNG). The requirement is for experience with 'one of the leading' tools, so no single tool could be listed as canonical.
Object-oriented programming language is required but no specific language is named; the JD says 'at least one OOP language'.
AI-assisted testing tools appear in both the responsibilities and the requirements sections, but the requirements language is 'experience with or interest in' — the 'or interest in' qualifier makes this aspirational rather than a hard gate, so it is listed as preferred.
The posting states a preferred location of Chicago, IL with an expectation of in-person presence; it is not advertised as remote.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): QA methodology, AI-assisted testing tools.
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