What do QA & BA earn?

Jul 4, 2021 14 Comments

Most posts I read here are about coders and technical people. What do Quality Assurance Analysts and Business Analysts earn in top companies & FAANG? Are BA & QA expected to be technically sound too? What do you think of these career options wrt salary & other things? Thank you!

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  • QA and BA are not roles that exist anymore in Product companies.

    Software Developer Engineer Test (SDET) was the QA role at Microsoft in the past but has been abolished. QA is a subset of what engineers do and are responsible for the quality of their work.

    BA is something that is primarily done by the PMs (Program Managers) and to some extent designers at Microsoft, among the other responsibilities they have.
    Jul 4, 2021 1
  • QA is dead. BA pays shit. If you have the business sense and skills and are at least a bit technical got to Product. If not sales or customer success (CS pays a slightly better than BA, especially if you get partial quota for things like renewals)
    Jul 4, 2021 2
  • Groupon
    tw1520

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    tw1520
    Lately companies are moving towards model where a developer plays multiple roles i.e traditional coder, test engineer, performance test engineer, devops at the same time.

    While QA does exist in many companies and in various forms.
    QA/QE
    SDET

    Yes they are supposed to be technically sound. QE maybe little less but the more technically sound you are, the more you can grow.

    SDET in big companies earn same or less than development team. Less is more common.
    QA/QE same to SDET or somewhat lower. Less is more common.
    Jul 4, 2021 3
    • Groupon
      tw1520

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      tw1520
      Is it like for rare awesome SDETs or is it for any common SDET as well?
      Jul 4, 2021
    • Amazon
      sf83a2

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      sf83a2
      SDETs on an average earn less than SDEs in Amazon even though the bands are very similar. This is because it is slightly harder to show impact as an SDET and for that reason they are usually found in the first quartile of pay bands where as SDEs are spread evenly across the whole band, pushing average higher.
      Jul 4, 2021
  • Microsoft / Eng
    tresc0mas

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    tresc0mas
    BAs in the traditional sense (requirements gathering, systems analysis, etc) do not exist anymore at most product companies, and many of the responsibilities are taken over by Product Owners/Managers.

    I did see some BA positions at some of these companies (e.g. Amazon), but they seemed to be more focused on BI and data analytics rather than requirements/systems analysis.
    Jul 4, 2021 1
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