Remote QA and testing jobs
Quality assurance and testing roles from live listings, each read for what the employer says about location.
Covers manual testing, QA automation, SDET, quality engineering and test lead roles.
206
live QA roles
18
found in the last day
Where you can actually work from
Most job boards call all of these simply "remote". These are the live counts for QA roles right now.
- Work from home125
- Hybrid39
- Region Restricted34
- Work from anywhere4
- Undisclosed4
What remote QA jobs pay
Typically $142k a year, with the middle half between $100k and $175k. Based on 41 live listings that publish a salary in US dollars.
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Where employers say you have to live
The places most often named in live QA adverts that restrict residence. Counted from the advert’s own wording.
- United States 33
- Remote, US 6
- Remote 4
- Remote in EMEA 4
- Poland 4
- Athens, Greece 4
- Guangdong 3
- Canada 3
- Philippines 3
- Ukraine 3
Seniority mix
Read from the employer’s own job titles. Titles with no seniority word are not counted, so these will not add up to 206.
- Entry level1
- Junior7
- Senior74
- Lead / principal18
Working hours
97 live QA adverts say something about hours, and 9 of those describe working asynchronously. The rest say nothing, which usually means normal hours in the employer’s own timezone, worth asking before you accept.
Employers hiring most right now
- EUROPEAN DYNAMICS10 roles
- Truelogic9 roles
- Cerebras7 roles
- ICEYE7 roles
- Keeper Security6 roles
- Moniepoint6 roles
- Trading 2126 roles
- Testlio5 roles
- Upgrade5 roles
- goPro Consultancy Group ltd.4 roles
- Jobs for Humanity4 roles
- OpenAI4 roles
How to spot a legit remote QA job
Most bad remote-job experiences are not scams, they are honest listings that were vague about location, or filled weeks ago. These are the checks worth running before you apply.
- Does the listing say where you can live?
- A real employer names the countries, regions or timezones they can hire in, because employment law forces them to. A listing that says only "remote" and nothing else is the most common reason people waste an application.
- Is there a named company behind it?
- Legitimate roles name the employer and link to their own careers page. Anonymous listings, or ones that only reveal the company after you pay or sign up, are the clearest warning sign there is.
- Are you ever asked for money?
- No genuine employer charges for training, equipment, a background check or a starter kit. Any request for payment, cryptocurrency or bank details before a signed contract is a scam, without exception.
- Does the pay match the work?
- Very high pay for very little skill is the oldest trick in the book. Compare the figure against what the same role actually pays elsewhere before taking it seriously.
- Was the interview real?
- Being hired purely over a chat app, with no video call and no questions about your experience, is not a hiring process. Reshipping, payment-processing and "buy equipment with this cheque" roles all start this way.
- Is the listing still open?
- Boards are full of roles that closed months ago. Check that the employer's own careers page still shows it before spending an hour on an application.
Nomaders does the first and last of those checks for you: every listing is read for what the employer actually says about location, and constantly re-checked so closed roles drop out. Browse the live roles.
Remote QA jobs: common questions
Is QA a good remote job?
Yes, testing is done against the same builds wherever you sit. The usual condition is overlap with the engineering team's working day.
Are there entry level remote QA jobs?
Manual QA is one of the more accessible ways into remote tech work, though automation skills raise pay quickly.
Which remote QA jobs hire worldwide?
Use the work from anywhere filter. That label is only applied where the advert states you can be based in any country.
What do remote QA jobs pay?
Automation and SDET roles pay well above manual testing. Figures shown come only from listings that publish a salary.
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How Nomaders checks these roles
Listings are collected from employers' own career pages and remote job boards, around the clock. Each one is read for what the employer actually says about location, and labelled accordingly, a role is only called work from anywhere when the listing says so in plain words. Nothing on this page is estimated.
What "remote" actually means