Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers, task by task.

Every activity this job is made of, scored on how much of its output software can produce today and linked to what addresses it. What is left over is the job.

SOC code
15-1253.00
Activities scored
6
Handed to agents
5
Grounded in
O*NET 30.3
The tasks · Software Quality Assurance Analysts and TestersSOC 15-1253.00
88% · agent
Develop test plans and scriptsWhat can do this →
85% · agent
82% · agent
78% · agent
75% · agent
35% · you keep
The team5 agents · 5 need no setup
Documentation agent
Atlassian JIRA · Atlassian Confluence · Docs
● No integration needed
Test planning agent
Eclipse IDE · Apache Maven · Docs
● No integration needed
Analysis agent
Elasticsearch · Apache Spark · Sheets
● No integration needed
Monitoring agent
Amazon Web Services AWS software · Apache Kafka · Sheets
● No integration needed
Technical advisory agent
Docs · Sheets · Web
● No integration needed
You keep this
Final approval of test strategies and release decisionsAccountability for software quality standards and complianceDirect stakeholder relationships requiring trust and negotiationOn-site troubleshooting and physical system access

Automatability scores estimate how much of a task an agent can reliably do today, grounded in O*NET task data. They are not predictions of job loss.

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The most automatable work in this job, and what actually addresses it. Each one has a page of its own showing every occupation that does it.

Document defects and test procedures88% · recording, documentation and administration · mostly automatable
Develop test plans and scripts85% · drafting and content production · mostly automatable
Analyze test data and identify issues82% · analysis and evaluation work · mostly automatable