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test plans jobs in 2026 — demand, top roles hiring, and related skills

As of 2026-09-30, test plans appears in 1,352 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the past 90 days — Systems Engineer has the most postings mentioning test plans, with demand share unchanged vs the prior 4 weeks.

Last updated · 90d ending 2026-09-30

Postings · last 90 days
1,352
Demand vs prior month
unchanged vs the prior 4 weeks
Top role · 12.4% of skill postings
Systems Engineer
Top hiring metro
Bengaluru

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Frequently asked questions about test plans

+Is test plans in demand in 2026?

Yes. test plans appears in 1,352 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-09-30. Systems Engineer accounts for the most postings mentioning test plans (12.4% of all postings mentioning test plans).

+What jobs require test plans?

According to the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-30, among roles with at least 20 postings, the highest shares mentioning test plans are Integration & Test Engineer (44.8% of that role’s postings mention test plans), Integration and Test Engineer (26.1% of that role’s postings mention test plans), Embedded Systems Security Engineer (24.0% of that role’s postings mention test plans).

+What skills are commonly paired with test plans?

Across job postings indexed by Skillenai (90 days ending 2026-09-30), test plans most often appears alongside Python, Test cases, test automation, test procedures, regression testing.

+Where is test plans most in demand?

As of 2026-09-30, the metro areas posting the most jobs requiring test plans are Bengaluru, Woburn, Costa Mesa, Long Beach, Boston, according to the Skillenai jobs index.

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+Which skills come before and after test plans?

The skill-flow chart shows skills documented in adjacent positions across observed employer changes. An outgoing skill is documented in the following position but not the preceding one. These are ideas to explore, not proven prerequisites, acquisition dates, or levels of mastery. Each ribbon counts employer moves with that skill pair; one move can contribute several pairs.

Weekly indexed postings requiring test plans — last 90 days

Salary distribution

Box = 25th–75th percentile · tick = median · whisker = 10th–90th · USD, annualized

Career paths around test plans

Skills documented before and after this skill across employer changes.

Historical career profiles · all locations

Skills before test plans

Before test plansregression testing → test plans: 24 observed employer moves with this skill pairtest cases → test plans: 22 observed employer moves with this skill pairFunctional Testing → test plans: 22 observed employer moves with this skill pairJava → test plans: 21 observed employer moves with this skill pairsql → test plans: 18 observed employer moves with this skill pairJira → test plans: 18 observed employer moves with this skill pairselenium webdriver → test plans: 15 observed employer moves with this skill pairpython → test plans: 14 observed employer moves with this skill pairtest plansregression testing: 24 movesregression testing24 movestest cases: 22 movestest cases22 movesFunctional Testing: 22 movesFunctional Testing22 movesJava: 21 movesJava21 movessql: 18 movessql18 movesJira: 18 movesJira18 movesselenium webdriver: 15 movesselenium webdriver15 movespython: 14 movespython14 moves

Skills after test plans

After test planstest plans → Jira: 28 observed employer moves with this skill pairtest plans → sql: 22 observed employer moves with this skill pairtest plans → Java: 20 observed employer moves with this skill pairtest plans → Selenium: 20 observed employer moves with this skill pairtest plans → test cases: 18 observed employer moves with this skill pairtest plans → regression testing: 17 observed employer moves with this skill pairtest plans → Jenkins: 17 observed employer moves with this skill pairtest plans → python: 15 observed employer moves with this skill pairtest plansJira: 28 movesJira28 movessql: 22 movessql22 movesJava: 20 movesJava20 movesSelenium: 20 movesSelenium20 movestest cases: 18 movestest cases18 movesregression testing: 17 movesregression testing17 movesJenkins: 17 movesJenkins17 movespython: 15 movespython15 moves
How to read this chart · view counts

Each side is an independent set of observed employer moves, not the same people followed through three stages. Ribbon widths compare move counts within that side. Internal moves are not included.

The following position documents a skill that the preceding position does not. Skills must be linked to both positions, with clear dates and no overlap. One move can connect several skill pairs. These patterns suggest skills to explore; they do not establish prerequisites, when a skill was learned, or a higher skill level.

Source: Skillenai talent graph, historical career profiles. Historical descriptions and coverage can change. Only the leading published connections are shown.

Observed connections and move counts
ConnectionMoves
Before: regression testing24
Before: test cases22
Before: Functional Testing22
Before: Java21
Before: sql18
Before: Jira18
Before: selenium webdriver15
Before: python14
After: Jira28
After: sql22
After: Java20
After: Selenium20
After: test cases18
After: regression testing17
After: Jenkins17
After: python15

Roles most likely to require test plans

Among roles with at least 20 postings in the same period.

RolePostings mentioning skill% of role postings mentioning skill
Integration & Test Engineer1344.8%
Integration and Test Engineer626.1%
Embedded Systems Security Engineer624.0%
Systems Integration and Test Engineer520.8%
RF Systems Engineer920.0%
System Test Engineer1019.6%
Manual QA Engineer919.6%
Software Quality Assurance Engineer1818.8%
Test Engineering Manager418.2%
Quality Assurance Tester517.9%

Roles with the most test plans postings

RolePostings mentioning skillShare of skill postings
Systems Engineer16712.4%
Test Engineer1279.4%
Software Engineer916.7%
QA Engineer906.7%
Business Analyst705.2%
Software Test Engineer392.9%
Quality Assurance Engineer352.6%
Software Quality Assurance Engineer181.3%
QA Automation Engineer151.1%
Systems Test Engineer151.1%

Top companies posting jobs requiring test plans

Employers ranked by indexed job postings in the last 90 days.

Top companies posting jobs requiring test plans
CompanyPostings · 90 days
Nimble Storage47
RTX41
Northrop Grumman38
HPE32
Globalpr29
Cisco29
SpaceX23
GlobaliD20
Anduril16
Anduril Industries16

Job postings indexed over the past 90 days, grouped by resolved employer. Counts are postings, not hires. Companies without a published page appear without a link.

Top metros hiring for test plans

NamePostingsShare
Bengaluru493.6%
Woburn292.1%
Costa Mesa231.7%
Long Beach211.6%
Boston191.4%
Pune181.3%
Toronto161.2%
El Segundo141.0%
San Francisco141.0%

Skills commonly paired with test plans

Python (383)Test cases (363)test automation (277)test procedures (273)regression testing (264)Linux (180)integration testing (172)JIRA (160)Agile (159)functional testing (158)

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How this was computed

Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-30. Skills are resolved against the Skillenai canonical taxonomy, so the same entity is counted whether a posting writes 'Python', 'Python 3', or 'python'. Role prevalence divides postings mentioning test plans by all postings for each role in the same window, ranking roles with at least 20 postings. Role distribution divides each role’s test plans postings by all test plans postings, including postings without a role. Shares need not sum to 100% for the displayed roles. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-requested skills). Adjusted posting share: 0.6% to 0.6%. Demand share change is the relative percentage change between these adjusted shares. Each employer-and-ATS group has at least 10 postings in each 90-day window; its earlier posting count supplies the same weight in both windows. The panel includes 2,596 identified employers and covers 68% of earlier and 72% of latest indexed postings. Windows: 2026-06-02 to 2026-08-31 and 2026-06-30 to 2026-09-28 (UTC; end dates excluded). The windows overlap by 62 days. Dates reflect indexing, not the employer’s posting date. This measures posting mix, not total hiring or market-wide demand. Matching excludes entrants and exits; changes in crawl completeness within an employer or ATS can still affect the result.

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Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
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