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QA job search query builder

Turn one role into every title employers use, add your skills, and get a Boolean search string plus one-click searches on LinkedIn, Naukri, Indeed and Google.

1. Job titles to include

The same job is advertised under many names. Tick every title you would accept.

2. Skills

Tick the tools you know. Jobs need to mention at least one.

3. Leave out
4. Where, how experienced, how recent

Your search string

Paste this into the search box on LinkedIn (it understands AND, OR, NOT).

("QA Engineer" OR "Software Tester" OR "Test Engineer" OR SDET OR "Automation Engineer" OR "Quality Analyst" OR "QA Analyst")

These open each site's own public search page in a new tab. The sites do not publish their link formats, so a filter can be ignored or change without notice. If something looks off, set it on the site.

QA Engineer job search: every title to search for

QA Engineer is the most common name, but the same work is advertised under a dozen others. Searching only one title can hide most of the openings.

Other names for this job: Software Tester, Test Engineer, Quality Analyst, QA Analyst, Quality Assurance Engineer, SDET, Automation Engineer.

Tips for this search

  • Keep your skill list to the tools you can talk about in an interview. A search with ten required tools returns very little.
  • Search by recent postings (last week) every few days instead of scrolling old ones.
  • Run the same search on LinkedIn, Naukri and Indeed: each site holds listings the others do not.

How the search string works

Titles are joined with OR, so any of them matches. Skills you tick are another OR group, and skills you mark as required are joined with AND. Words to exclude get NOT (or a minus sign on Indeed and Google). LinkedIn understands this syntax in its search box; Naukri does not document one, so its links search one title at a time.

Other versions of this search

Questions

Why search for several job titles at once?

The same testing job is advertised as QA Engineer, Software Tester, Test Engineer, SDET, Automation Engineer, Quality Analyst and more. A search for one title misses the others, so the builder joins them with OR.

Does this tool search the job sites for me?

No. It builds a search string and links that open each site's own public search page in your browser. Nothing is collected from LinkedIn, Naukri or Indeed, and nothing you enter is sent to our server.

Why did a filter not apply on the site?

LinkedIn, Naukri and Indeed do not publish official specifications for their search links, and they can ignore or change parameters. If a filter such as experience or date is missing, set it on the site's page.

What do AND, OR and NOT mean?

OR widens the search (any of these titles). AND narrows it (this and that). NOT removes results that contain a word. Brackets group them, and quotes keep a phrase together.