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Review score
96
Evidence
100%
Words
263

Scored by the same rules the Studio uses. How scoring works

Why it works

  • One page in all six layouts263 words, so switching designs never pushes it to a second page.
  • 4 of 10 bullets name a resultThe rest show the scale of the work, which a recruiter reads as proof too. Counted by the same Review the Studio runs.
  • Headings an ATS already knowsSummary, Experience, Education, Certifications, Skills, in that order.
  • The credential has its own lineISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level, each with issuer and year.
  • Reads back as plain textOne column with no tables or icons. The ATS text tab shows what a parser gets.
What a recruiter sees
Elena Brooks
Senior QA Engineer
elena.brooks@example.com | +1 (512) 555-0149 | Austin, TX | github.com/elenabrooksqa | linkedin.com/in/elenabrooksqa
SUMMARY

QA engineer with six years building test automation for SaaS and mobile payments. Owns the Playwright suite and release quality for five squads, and makes flaky tests rare.

EXPERIENCE
Senior QA Engineer, LumenPay
Austin, TX · 2022 – Present
  • Own the Playwright framework covering 620 critical user paths, keeping the flake rate under 2% across about 40 CI runs a day on every pull request.
  • Lead release quality for five squads; escaped defects fell 46% in a year.
  • Maintain REST Assured tests for 140 payment endpoints; failures trace in an hour.
  • Run Appium tests on 12 device profiles, catching most crashes before release.
QA Automation Engineer, Arcadia Cloud
Denver, CO · 2020 – 2022
  • Built a Cypress smoke suite for 85 checkout flows, cutting release checks to 42 minutes.
  • Cut flaky Selenium failures from 14% to under 3% by fixing 37 brittle selectors and giving each test run its own isolated data, so failures meant real bugs again.
  • Added 260 Postman contract checks in Jenkins that blocked 19 breaking API changes.
QA Analyst, Mosaic Retail
Columbus, OH · 2018 – 2020
  • Wrote 540 test cases for warehouse scanning, covering 91% of requirements by pilot.
  • Ran JMeter load tests on three store APIs, finding a throughput limit before peak.
  • Partnered with eight developers on priority defects, cutting fix time to two days.
EDUCATION
B.S. Information Technology, University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, TX · 2014 – 2018
CERTIFICATIONS
ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level, ISTQB
2019
SKILLS
AutomationPlaywright, Cypress, Selenium, Appium
API & Performance: REST Assured, Postman, k6, JMeter, contract testing
Languages & CI: TypeScript, Java, Python, Jenkins, GitHub Actions
Practicetest strategy, regression, risk-based testing, defect triage
Layout

A tight technical sans. Each role sits on one row, with skills in an aligned column. Switching layouts never changes the words.

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QA engineer resumes fail when they say "tested software" and leave the reader to guess the risk removed. Bug counts also mean little without escape rate, release cadence or suite health. The score on this page is real proof-engine output, not a marketing number.

QA engineer resume summary example

Target roleSenior QA Engineer
SummaryQA engineer with six years building test automation for SaaS and mobile payments. Owns the Playwright suite and release quality for five squads, and makes flaky tests rare.
2 of this role's keywords are in the summary
  • test automation
  • Playwright

The candidate is fictional, so swap in your own numbers. Stuck? The resume summary generator drafts one from your title and results.

Why most QA engineers don't get the call

Skills and keywords for a QA engineer resume

Applicant tracking systems match on literal strings. Spell each term the way the job posting spells it, and group related skills so people and parsers can both follow it.

Automation frameworks

  • Selenium
  • Playwright
  • Cypress
  • Appium
  • pytest
  • JUnit
  • TestNG
  • WebdriverIO

Languages & CI

  • Java
  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • GitHub Actions
  • Jenkins
  • CI/CD
  • Docker

API & performance

  • Postman
  • REST Assured
  • k6
  • JMeter
  • API testing
  • load testing
  • contract testing

Quality metrics & practices

  • manual testing
  • test automation
  • regression testing
  • smoke testing
  • defect escape rate
  • flake rate
  • test case management
  • Agile

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Why each choice was made

  1. Why runtime and flake rate appear before tools

    A long list of frameworks does not prove release confidence. Runtime and flake rate show whether automation gave the team a signal fast enough to act on, which is what a QA screener actually needs.

  2. Why escape rate is named directly

    Bug counts can reward noisy testing. Defect escape rate shows containment: how much less risk reached customers after the QA work changed.

  3. Why API and performance sit outside UI automation

    Many QA resumes collapse everything into Selenium. Separate API, performance and CI terms give keyword filters literal matches and show a reviewer the testing surface was wider than browser clicks.

QA engineer resume questions

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What skills should I put on a QA engineer resume?

The skills the job posting names, spelled the way it spells them. For a QA engineer that often includes Selenium, Playwright, Java, Python, Postman and REST Assured. Show each one in a bullet with a result, then list the core ones again in a short skills section.

How do I write a QA engineer resume summary?

Keep it to two or three sentences: your years of experience and where, the scale of your work, and one result with a number. Leave out words a recruiter cannot check, like hardworking or passionate. The example summary on this page shows the pattern.

Is this QA engineer resume template free?

Yes. Open it in the Studio, replace the example with your own work and download it as a PDF in a free design (Signal, Editorial and Minimal). Word files and the other designs come with ATSPrep Pro. There is no watermark; downloading needs a free account.

Is this QA engineer resume template ATS friendly?

Yes. It is one column of real text with standard section headings, and no tables, text boxes or text inside images, so parsers read it in order. Run your finished file through the free ATS resume checker to see the text it gives back.

Keep the pattern. Tell your story.

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  1. Keep the hierarchy. Same section order, plain-text contact details.
  2. Replace every claim. Your scope, your numbers, your tools. Never borrowed achievements.
  3. Run the Review again. Watch the score respond to the evidence in your version.
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