QA Lead / Test Manager
Owns the test strategy and the QA team; a natural promotion after QA Automation
- Salary 30% × 4.21.26
- AI resistance 35% × 6.02.10
- Demand 20% × 5.01.00
- Remote work 10% × 7.00.70
- Low stress 5% × 3.00.15
Salary, k PLN per month
Estimateestimate MID → SENIORmidpoint, medianjunior (derived)
- Range MID → SENIOR
- ≈16–28
- Range midpoint
- ≈22.0
- Junior Derived
- ≈11.0
- Take-home, employment (UoP) Derived
- ≈15.0
- Take-home, B2B flat-rate tax Derived
- ≈18.0
NOTE: this is NOT a junior salary! The bottom of the range = MID level (or just promoted from junior). The top of the range = an experienced SENIOR. Staff/principal/architect levels can earn above it.
Easiest transitions
Estimate2-3 roles with the shortest path from this one (overlapping skills)
Key certifications
EstimateScores 1–10
Estimate- AI resistance6/1010 = rides the AI wave, 1 = highly automatable
- Demand5/1010 = acute shortage of specialists, 1 = shrinking market
- Remote work7/1010 = fully remote is the norm, 1 = mostly on-site
- Stress7/1010 = heavy on-call / shifts / pressure, 1 = calm
- Entry barrier7/1010 = years of prerequisites, 1 = open to beginners
- Prestige6/1010 = elite reputation in the industry, 1 = underrated role; a subjective view of the title among engineers - informational, not part of the Score formula
The market in job ads
From job ads SOLID.Jobs · 13/11/2026Too few offers for this role (6 offers, threshold 10). Below are statistics for the Testing category (104 offers), labelled as category data, not role data.
Most common stack in Testing
Most common in this role's 6 offers: Jira, Mobile applications testing, Python, QA, Appium, Azure Data Factory. This is only indicative.
Salaries in job-board reports
From reportsNo Fluff Jobs: „Kariera w IT 2026”data for H1 2026
These are the report's figures for the whole Testing/QA category, not for this role alone.
| Level | B2B net | Employment, gross |
|---|---|---|
| Junior | 7.4–10.1 | 5.7–8 |
| Mid | 14.4–18.5 | 10–14 |
| Senior | 20.2–23.5 | 15–18 |
Thousands of PLN a month: the median lower and upper bounds of the ranges in job ads. A dash means the report gives no amount because there were too few ads. Source: page 17 of the report.
No Fluff Jobs: „Rynek pracy IT w Polsce 2025/2026”data for 2025
These are the report's figures for the whole Testing category, not for this role alone.
| Level | B2B net | Employment, gross |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | 17–22 | 12–16 |
| Junior | 6.5–9 | 5.8–8.2 |
| Mid | 14–18.5 | 10–14.5 |
| Senior | 20.2–25 | 15–19.1 |
Thousands of PLN a month: the median lower and upper bounds of the ranges in job ads. Year-on-year change of the overall upper median: B2B -3.0%, employment -5.9%. Source: pages 27 and 31 of the report.
Reports are shown on their own, with a link and page number. They are not averaged with SOLID.Jobs data because they measure something else: the report gives the median lower and upper bounds, SOLID.Jobs the median of the range midpoints.