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Manual Software Tester
Test generation, execution and triage are among the fastest-automating tasks in software.
Replacement risk
87%
Mostly gone by
2029
Runway left
3 yrs
Almost certainly replaced
The ten-question breakdown
Each factor is scored 0–100. Higher means easier to automate.
Scoring the ten factors for this job…
What you can do now
- Move into test automation and quality engineering
- Specialise in security and performance testing
- Own release quality strategy rather than test execution
Where to move next
- QA automation engineer
- SRE
- Security tester