H-1B demand profile: Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 15-1253-00, employers filed 58,883 Labor Condition Applications for Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers positions across 7,830 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 95.2% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Software Quality Assurance Analysts 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 Analysts and Testers. Offered wages on LCAs range from $21,736 at the floor to $1,000,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $107,080. 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 Analysts and Testers. The top sponsor is COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS US CORP with 4,139 petitions at an average offered wage of $98,882, followed by CAPGEMINI AMERICA INC, Tata Consultancy Services Limited, Amazon.com Services LLC. Geographically, TX leads with 10,277 filings (avg $99,365), followed by CA, NJ, GA. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Software Quality Assurance Analysts 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.