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Overview
ICT test analysts design and organise tests for software and digital products, checking quality, accuracy, defects and customer issues before testers execute or repeat the test work.
In job descriptions, look for test suites, test scripts, software testing levels, quality assurance objectives, defect reports, debugging tools, code review, automated tests, usability checks and test documentation.
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ICT test analysts turn product requirements, customer issues and quality goals into test designs. They plan test levels, define suites and scripts, review results and make defects clear enough for developers, testers and product owners to act on.
Skills And Specializations
Core work uses software testing levels, test-suite design, execution evidence, defect reporting and test documentation. Specializations can include automated software tests, code review, debugging tools, usability measurement, recovery testing or statistical analysis of results.
Salary Context
Salary context depends on whether the role designs tests only or also owns automation, release acceptance, quality audits, customer-issue replication and test strategy for business-critical systems.
Career Paths
Common routes start in manual testing, support analysis, software development or quality assurance. Development can lead to test automation engineer, QA lead, release quality manager, product quality analyst or software test architect.
Good To Know
Check whether adverts name the product domain, test levels, automation tools, defect workflow, documentation standard and who executes the tests. Test analyst roles can be design-heavy even when testers perform the repeated runs.
Editorial note
This Guide gives editorial career context for ICT test analysis, not official labour-market statistics or salary data.
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Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers
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Occupation group
Software and applications developers and analysts not elsewhere classified (2519)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/0ab5c12c-c1c1-4772-8345-aa287d0e391d |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 2519.6 |
| ISCO group | 2519 |
| Concept type | Occupation |