H-1B demand profile: Software Quality Assurance Engineers and Testers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 15-1199-01, employers filed 765 Labor Condition Applications for Software Quality Assurance Engineers and Testers positions across 338 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 100% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Software Quality Assurance Engineers and Testers among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Software Quality Assurance Engineers and Testers. Offered wages on LCAs range from $45,000 at the floor to $225,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $96,330. These figures reflect what employers commit to pay sponsored workers, not market averages, each offer must meet or exceed the DOL prevailing wage (Level I through IV) for the worksite, so the distribution tracks wage-level geography, years of experience, and regional cost of labor more than it does any single employer’s pay philosophy.

Where and who sponsors Software Quality Assurance Engineers and Testers. The top sponsor is IBM Corporation with 27 petitions at an average offered wage of $82,583, followed by International Business Machines Corporation, DXC Technology Services LLC, Everest Technologies, Inc. Geographically, CA leads with 170 filings (avg $117,789), followed by TX, NC, NJ. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Software Quality Assurance Engineers and Testers actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.