QA Engineers in Austria
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Mario M.
Last position:
Co-Founder and CTO at B2B SaaS Recruiting Platform
Complete build of a B2B SaaS platform for recruitment agencies
- Multi-source job aggregation via ATS APIs
- AI-assisted career page scraping
- Rule-based and AI-assisted matching
- Credit-based monetization model with Stripe integration
- Live in production since July 2026
Tech stack
- NestJS
- React
- PostgreSQL
- pgvector
- Claude AI
- Prisma
Kurt B.
Last position:
Backend / Microservices Developer, DevOps, Test Automation at Fa. RCA, Rail Cargo Austria AG
- Backend / Microservices Developer, DevOps, Test Automation
- ~100 developers, ~10 teams, per team: 1 PO, 1 ScrumMaster, 1UX, 1 Developers, 1 Tester
- .net core 8, 9, C#
- Microservices, Clean-Architecture, MediatR, CQRS
- GraphQL, REST, SDL
- Azure DevOps, CI / CD-pipelines, Azure-Service Bus, Rabbit-MQ, Kafka, Azure App Configuration, Azure KeyVault, Azure Kubernetes AKS
- Splunk, dashboards, custom metrics, Elastic-Search, Kibana (ELK)
- Azure SQL-Databases, Azure Cosmos DB
- Architecture decisions, event governance, COP (Backend, DevOps, FrontEnt, Testautomations)
- AI, Copilot, creating Tests-Template
- Scheduler, Hangfire, Quartz
- Automated Unit- and Integrationtests
- Automated E2E-Tests, Playwright Test-Automation, BDD, Gherkin, Cucumber
- Tracking of shipments
- GIS, GPS data, geofence, geo search, position tracking, asset positions
- Jira, Confluence
- Focus on high performance message oriented architecture (~xx e6 messages / month / service)
- Structured logging, Serilog, OTel, Splunk, ApplicationMonitoring
- Integration of different position - data sources (GPS based data) into AzureDataLake
Vladislav F.
Last position:
Senior Test Automation Engineer / Test Manager at Stadt Wien – WUKSEA
- Creation of test scenarios, manual test cases and test data using boundary value analysis and equivalence partitioning
- Execution of functional and non-functional tests (manual with Postman and web application, automated with WebDriver, JUnit and NUnit)
- Setup, automation and maintenance of the Test Automation Framework with Java, Spring Boot, Selenium and Cucumber in IntelliJ (system, regression, smoke, UI and integration tests for web frontend and SOAP API backend interfaces)
- Automation of backend NUnit test cases in Visual Studio
- Test management: development and implementation of the test strategy and test plans, test coordination, quality responsibility and prioritization of risk-based tests, as well as documentation management in Confluence
- Detailed analysis and quality assurance of requirements
- Creation and maintenance of Jenkins pipelines, quality assurance during build & deployment
- Close cooperation with business analysts, developers, testers and test management
- Identification, creation and tracking of errors/defects, as well as careful test documentation
- Reporting of test results and defect reports
- Monitoring of test processes and continuous improvement
- Verification of test data and test results in a PostgreSQL database in pgAdmin
- Support with effort estimates and backlog prioritization
- Analysis and debugging of development code
System environment: Java, JUnit, Spring Boot, Selenium, Cucumber, JavaScript, Jenkins, C#, NUnit, Postman, Bitbucket, Confluence, Jira, xRay, pgAdmin, PostgreSQL, SonarQube, Maven, IntelliJ, Visual Studio, CI/CD, SOAP API interfaces
Wael A.
Last position:
Test Automation Expert at Ebcont Work GmbH
- Automating software tests with Tosca instead of manual tests
- Ensuring system stability through early issue fixing
- Optimizing for faster releases and better software quality
- Technologies: Tosca, API Testing, JIRA, Confluence
Namik D.
Last position:
Test Manager / Test Automation Engineer at Sky Deutschland GmbH
- Implemented and maintained 443 automated test cases with a 99% pass rate (441/443)
- Enabled CI for test automation: automated runs on review/merge, reporting via Xray
- Introduced accessibility and performance checks and established them in reporting
- Served as QA lead in daily operations with stand-ups, Kanban progress tracking, prioritization, and targeted task distribution
- Handled defect triage and stakeholder communication with daily triage, QA status analysis, and actionable recommendations
- Developed and maintained a stable regression suite for CRM/Salesforce flows (UI/E2E and near-API validations)
- Integrated CI/CD using Jenkins pipelines with Groovy (IaC)
- Maintained QA documentation, test conventions, and processes in Confluence, aligned across the team
- Conducted Salesforce Einstein chatbot testing with intent/topic validation and output checks, and used Robot Framework/Python suites for continuous quality monitoring
- Technology stack: Jira, Xray, Confluence, Jenkins, Groovy, Git, Java, Selenium, Playwright, Cucumber, TypeScript, Postman, REST, Salesforce, Google Cloud, Lighthouse, Evinced, Scrum/Kanban, BDD (Gherkin)
Thomas P.
Last position:
QA Tech Lead at ready2order GmbH
- Leading a team of QA Engineers
- Implementing effective test strategies, driving the test automation strategy forward
- Hands-on testing for the web and mobile application (iOS, Android)
- Creating, maintaining, and executing test plans as well as documenting test results (Testrail)
- Evaluating and integrating new tools to improve the testing process (e.g. Playwright)
Marcel T.
Last position:
Founder, AI Strategy and Enablement at Engineering Peak Impact
- Design workshop curricula for software engineers and technical leads on AI-enabled engineering and on adopting AI tools effectively.
- Technical talk, 17th TestIstanbul Conference, October 2026: "What If We Tested the Tester?", on how AI amplifies the tester's judgement, blind spots included.
- Built and run the company website and online course platform (WordPress, PHP, JavaScript) with Claude Code and Cursor, plus a Playwright test suite that checks the live site's pages, links and sign-up flow.
- Built Write Check, a Chrome extension backed by a local Node.js service that scores any text box for clarity and AI-sounding phrasing, falling back across Gemini, Kimi, GPT and OpenRouter when a provider fails.
- Built a Python video pipeline that turns my online course into short narrated videos: script, text-to-speech, captions and rendering, with a review gate before each episode.
- Work under a written protocol for AI coding agents (CLAUDE.md): a definition of done written as checks before the work starts, tests that fail before they pass, and independent reviewer agents that check each claim of the coder agents against its source.
- Author of The Maintenance Trap (Level Up newsletter, May 2026), on developer productivity: why high-performing engineers get pulled into maintenance work and how to make the ROI case for fixing it.
Nedim K.
Last position:
Manual Tester and Test Automation Engineer at IT-Systemhaus der Bundesagentur für Arbeit
- Design appropriate test cases to verify the GUI in Azure Test Plans
- Creation and execution of manual test cases
- Test design for user stories to be implemented in the current sprint
- Analysis of deviations/bugs based on log files and Kibana dashboards
- Creation of bug tickets with error description, screenshots, and short videos
- Prioritization of open bug tickets together with the PO
- Retest of bugs and hotfixes
- Execution of manual tests to ensure a 100% fulfillment rate of all functional requirements
- Selection, installation, and maintenance of a test automation tool (Selenium)
- Implementation of automated regression tests
- Continuous expansion of the object repository and adaptation of automated test cases (acceptance, integration, and system tests)
- Creation of test logs before each sprint change
Cédric M.
Last position:
Senior Tester at Public Sector
- Analysis, design and implementation of acceptance tests
- Test execution and reporting
- Defect reporting and retesting
- Tools: Xray, Jira, Confluence, OpenText Content Server, Scrum
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QA Engineers statistics
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
15 years
Position duration
2.1 years
Positions per freelancer
10
Top business areas
Information Technology, Quality Assurance, Product Development
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Education
Certification focus areas
Quality Assurance, Information Technology, Product Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
100%
Master's degree or higher
67%
Doctorate
17%
Certifications per freelancer
5
Most common languages
German, English, Bosnian
Speak two or more languages
100%
Based on our profile pool as of 5 Nov 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of experts in this role in Austria are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows the share of experts charging within that range.
Average rates for QA Engineers in Austria
Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.
The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.
The median daily rate is the middle value of all daily rates — half of comparable freelancers charge less, half charge more. Unlike the average, it is barely affected by outliers.
Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 5 Nov 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
QA Engineers experts industry focus
See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.
- Information Technology (89%)
- Banking and Finance (56%)
- Education (33%)
- Transportation (33%)
- Government and Administration (33%)
- Advertising (22%)
- Healthcare (22%)
- Insurance (22%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the role
Test coverage QA engineers protect product quality before users feel the bugs. They design test cases, run exploratory testing, and check that new features work across browsers, devices, and environments.
- Test plans and clear acceptance criteria
- Manual regression and smoke testing
- Bug reports that developers can act on
- Release checks for new builds and hotfixes
Automation and tools A strong QA engineer does more than click through screens. Many build or maintain automated tests with tools such as Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, or Appium, and they work closely with CI/CD pipelines, test data, and defect tracking systems. They also understand API testing, test management, and how to keep automated suites stable instead of noisy.
When companies hire Businesses bring in freelance QA engineers when a product team needs support for a release, a new platform, or a growing backlog of defects. It is also a good fit when there is no in-house test function yet, or when extra hands are needed during peak delivery. In Austria, this often suits software firms, industrial companies, fintech teams, and agencies that need flexible quality support without long hiring cycles.
What they deliver The best QA engineers make quality visible and practical. They do not just find issues; they help teams ship with confidence and reduce avoidable rework.
- Test strategy for new features or full products
- Automated and manual test execution
- Structured defect documentation
- Risk-based test priorities for releases
- QA input for user stories and sprint planning
What strong QA looks like A good QA engineer thinks like a user, a tester, and a partner to developers. They ask the right questions early, spot edge cases, and know when to go deep on logic, data, or integrations. They also communicate clearly with product owners, developers, and business stakeholders, which matters just as much as tooling. That is especially useful in remote work, where clear notes and fast feedback keep delivery moving.
Adjacent roles Searchers often mean software tester, test engineer, or QA tester when they look for a QA engineer. In some teams the role also overlaps with automation engineer or test analyst, but the scope should stay clear: quality assurance across the product, not only script writing. If your team works with German-speaking stakeholders in Austria, a freelancer who can handle both English documentation and local communication is often easier to plug in.
Frequently asked questions
Quick answers to the questions that come up most around QA Engineers.
A QA engineer checks that the product works as expected before release. The work usually includes test design, manual testing, defect reporting, and sometimes test automation or regression support. On freelance projects, the scope is often tied to a release, a new feature set, or a quality gap the team needs to close fast.
A freelance QA engineer makes sense when you need quality support for a limited period, a launch, or a sudden increase in workload. It also works well if you need a specialist for automation, API testing, or release validation without adding permanent headcount. Many companies use freelancers to bridge the gap until a longer-term test setup is in place.
A strong QA engineer combines structured thinking with technical understanding. You should expect solid test case design, careful bug reporting, knowledge of test levels, and the ability to work with developers and product teams. For technical projects, experience with tools like Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, or API testing tools is often important.
The titles often overlap, but they are not always identical. A software tester or QA tester may focus more on manual validation, while a test engineer often leans more technical and automation-heavy. In practice, many companies use these titles for similar work, so the exact scope should be defined before the project starts.
QA engineers commonly work with test management tools, bug trackers, browser and device testing setups, and automation frameworks. Depending on the stack, they may also use CI/CD systems, API testing tools, and device labs for mobile work. The best choice depends on whether the team needs manual coverage, automation, or both.
Look for clear test thinking, concise defect reports, and a practical approach to risk. A good freelancer explains what they tested, what they did not test, and why that matters. You should also see good collaboration habits, because quality work depends on feedback loops with developers and product owners.
Many QA tasks work well remotely, especially test planning, bug verification, and automation. On-site time can help when the product is complex, the team is new, or the release process needs close coordination. In Austria, many teams use a hybrid setup, so clear communication in English and sometimes German is useful.
A QA engineer is a strong fit for web apps, mobile products, internal business software, and systems with frequent releases. They are also useful when integrations, API flows, or business-critical workflows need careful validation. If your team is shipping often and cannot afford avoidable defects, QA support usually pays off quickly.
The average hourly rate for QA Engineers in Austria is 86 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 685 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers working as QA Engineers in Austria, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 67% hold at least a Master's degree, and 17% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers working as QA Engineers in Austria have 15 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.1 years.
The most common languages among freelancers working as QA Engineers in Austria are German (100%), English (100%), and Bosnian (33%).
The most common industries among freelancers working as QA Engineers in Austria are Information Technology (89%), Banking and Finance (56%), and Education (33%).
The most common business areas among freelancers working as QA Engineers in Austria are Information Technology (100%), Quality Assurance (100%), and Product Development (78%).
FRATCH QA Engineers main locations
Our freelancers and interim experts are at home across the DACH region — available on-site in the major business hubs or fully remote. Choose a location to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.
Countries:
- Germany
- Austria
- Switzerland
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