QA Automation Engineers write the code that catches bugs so humans don't have to. Product companies, fintechs and outsourcing teams hire them to keep release cycles fast as manual testing stops scaling. This template helps you spotlight your frameworks, coverage and real impact on delivery.
Copy these as starting points and swap in your own numbers.
2024–2025 estimates. Wide ranges by experience and seniority.
Not at a senior-dev level, but you do need clean code habits, Git fluency and a solid grasp of OOP. Without that, automation quickly turns into an unmaintainable pile of scripts.
List them all, but lead with the one you've used longest and have real results in. Recruiters often filter by a specific tool, so Playwright or Selenium deserve a top spot.
Strongly recommended. Even a small pet project with autotests says more than three paragraphs of description. If your work code is under NDA, build a demo framework against a public API.
Show concrete steps: courses, your first autotests on the project, the coverage percentage you added. Recruiters love seeing progress in numbers, not a vague 'learned Selenium'.