How to hire a quality analyst

How to hire a quality analyst, step by step

Here's a step-by-step quality analyst hiring guide:

• Step 1: Identify your hiring needs
• Step 2: Create an ideal candidate profile
• Step 3: Make a budget
• Step 4: Write a quality analyst job description
• Step 5: Post your job
• Step 6: Interview candidates
• Step 7: Send a job offer and onboard your new quality analyst
• Step 8: Go through the hiring process checklist

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1. Identify your hiring needs

   Before you post your quality analyst job, you should take the time to determine what type of worker your business needs. While certain jobs definitely require a full-time employee, it's sometimes better to find a quality analyst for hire on a part-time basis or as a contractor.

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   Hiring the perfect quality analyst also involves considering the ideal background you'd like them to have. Depending on what industry or field they have experience in, they'll bring different skills to the job. It's also important to consider what levels of seniority and education the job requires and what kind of salary such a candidate would likely demand.

   This list shows salaries for various types of quality analysts.

   Type of Quality Analyst	Description	Hourly rate
   Quality Analyst		$26-44
   Software Quality Engineer	A Software Quality Engineer ensures that the software of a company meets all quality standards. They are responsible for software development, inspection, implementation, testing, and verification.	$35-65
   Quality Assurance Engineer	A Quality Assurance Engineer's role is to oversee the overall production and ensure that the product is cost-efficient and aligns with the company's standards. The responsibility mainly revolves around conducting activities that examine and scrutinize the condition of a product or service to identify issues and come up with possible solutions to resolve the issue or attain stronger customer satisfaction... Show more	$29-52

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2. Create an ideal candidate profile

   Common skills:

   • Customer Service
   • QA
   • Patients
   • Data Analysis
   • Corrective Action
   • Process Improvement
   • Quality Standards
   • PowerPoint
   • Regression
   • Post Implementation
   • Manual Test Cases
   • Test Procedures
   • ISO
   • Management System

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   Responsibilities:

   • Perform API testing with different sub-systems.
   • Develop automation test cases, execute these test scripts from test lab and log defects in JIRA.
   • Create PL/SQL functions to calculate the special discount for corporate members while in the process of subscription.
   • Report and track bugs & third-party issues with a high degree of detail using the JIRA bug-tracking system.
   • Develop SQL, PL/SQL queries and procedures to verify successful population of data from application interface into the database.
   • Experience in assessing project requirements, development and test status, changes, coverage and risks using QC (ALM).

   More quality analyst duties

3. Make a budget

   Including a salary range in your quality analyst job description helps attract top candidates to the position. A quality analyst salary can be affected by several factors, such as geography, experience, seniority, certifications, and the prestige of the hiring company.

   For example, the average salary for a quality analyst in South Dakota may be lower than in California, and an entry-level quality analyst usually earns less than a senior-level quality analyst. Additionally, a quality analyst with certifications may command a higher salary, and working for a well-known company or start-up may also impact an employee's pay.

   Average quality analyst salary

   $71,957yearly

   $34.59 hourly rate

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   Entry-level quality analyst salary

   $55,000 yearly salary

   Updated December 14, 2025

   Average quality analyst salary by state

   Rank	State	Avg. salary	Hourly rate
   1	California	$90,933	$44
   2	Maryland	$78,338	$38
   3	New Jersey	$75,808	$36
   4	District of Columbia	$75,456	$36
   5	New York	$75,323	$36
   6	Virginia	$73,539	$35
   7	Delaware	$73,440	$35
   8	Arizona	$72,880	$35
   9	North Carolina	$71,163	$34
   10	Illinois	$70,963	$34
   11	Massachusetts	$70,436	$34
   12	Pennsylvania	$70,235	$34
   13	South Carolina	$69,638	$33
   14	Texas	$69,576	$33
   15	Ohio	$69,557	$33
   16	Minnesota	$68,537	$33
   17	Georgia	$67,374	$32
   18	Indiana	$66,894	$32
   19	Wisconsin	$66,730	$32
   20	Alabama	$64,967	$31

   Average quality analyst salary by company

   Company

   Rank	Company	Average salary	Hourly rate	Job openings
   1	Meta	$114,485	$55.04	101
   2	Apple	$109,241	$52.52	149
   3	Google	$105,917	$50.92	88
   4	Nordstrom	$105,174	$50.56	1
   5	Microsoft	$104,671	$50.32	25
   6	American Tower	$102,265	$49.17
   7	First Republic Bank	$100,671	$48.40
   8	Bloomberg	$99,744	$47.95	12
   9	GoPro	$98,332	$47.27
   10	JPMorgan Chase & Co.	$95,302	$45.82	108
   11	Citi	$94,225	$45.30	37
   12	Barclays	$93,811	$45.10	1
   13	General Motors	$91,848	$44.16	76
   14	Visteon	$91,622	$44.05
   15	Dignity Health	$91,622	$44.05	27
   16	Stanford University	$91,597	$44.04	4
   17	Moody's	$91,262	$43.88
   18	University of California	$90,912	$43.71	8
   19	University of California-Berkeley	$89,857	$43.20
   20	Kohl's	$88,071	$42.34

4. Writing a quality analyst job description

   A job description for a quality analyst role includes a summary of the job's main responsibilities, required skills, and preferred background experience. Including a salary range can also go a long way in attracting more candidates to apply, and showing the first name of the hiring manager can also make applicants more comfortable. As an example, here's a quality analyst job description:

   Quality analyst job description example

   We are more than a health system. We are a belief system. We believe wellness and sickness are both part of a lifelong partnership, and that everyone could use an expert guide. We work hard, care deeply and reach further to help people uncover their own power to be healthy. We inspire hope. We learn, grow, and achieve more - in our careers and in our communities.
   
   This position performs Coding Quality Reviews of charging for Hospital Medicine, Primary Care, Behavioral Health, Palliative, Infectious Disease and Addiction Medicine records. The Coding Education and Quality Analyst educates physicians, coders, failed claims specialists and clinical documentation specialists on coding, billing, clinical documentation and coding compliance. They are also responsible for interacting with providers in virtual meetings for all Central Ohio Hospitals. The Coding Education and Quality Analyst helps to ensure coding and billing for patient services are in compliance with rules and regulations for participation in governmental programs as well as meeting the contractual obligations of non-governmental payers. This position appraises the quality of coding using Risk Based software, as well as routine education for new providers and coders. The quality monitoring will be shared with coding management for potential work improvement plans. Candidates must be skilled in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
   Minimum Qualifications:
   
   Associate's Degree (Required) CCS - Certified Coding Specialist - American Health Information Management Association, CPC - CPC Certified Professional Coder - AAPC American Academy of Professional Coders
   CCS - CCS CCSP - CCSP CPC - Certified Professional Coder CPCH - Certified Professional Coder - Field of Study: Coding Years of Experience 3
   
   Work Shift:
   Day
   
   Scheduled Weekly Hours :
   40
   
   Department
   Physician Coding
   
   Join us!... if your passion is to work in a caring environment... if you believe that learning is a life-long process... if you strive for excellence and want to be among the best in the healthcare industry
   
   Equal Employment Opportunity
   
   OhioHealth is an equal opportunity employer and fully supports and maintains compliance with all state, federal, and local regulations. OhioHealth does not discriminate against associates or applicants because of race, color, genetic information, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, ancestry, national origin, veteran status, military status, pregnancy, disability, marital status, familial status, or other characteristics protected by law. Equal employment is extended to all person in all aspects of the associate-employer relationship including recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, compensation, discipline, reduction in staff, termination, assignment of benefits, and any other term or condition of employment

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5. Post your job

   To find the right quality analyst for your business, consider trying out a few different recruiting strategies:

   • Consider internal talent. One of the most important sources of talent for any company is its existing workforce.
   • Ask for referrals. Reach out to friends, family members, and current employees and ask if they know or have worked with quality analysts they would recommend.
   • Recruit at local colleges. Attend job fairs at local colleges to recruit quality analysts who meet your education requirements.
   • Social media platforms. LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter now have more than 3.5 billion users, and you can use social media to reach potential job candidates.

   To find quality analyst candidates, you can consider the following options:

   • Post your job opening on Zippia or other job search websites.
   • Use niche websites that focus on engineering and technology jobs, such as dice, engineering.com, stack overflow, it job pro.
   • Post your job on free job posting websites.

6. Interview candidates

   To successfully recruit quality analysts, your first interview needs to engage with candidates to learn about their interest in the role and experience in the field. You can go into more detail about the company, the role, and the responsibilities during follow-up interviews.

   Remember to include a few questions that allow candidates to expand on their strengths in their own words. Asking about their unique skills might reveal things you'd miss otherwise. At this point, good candidates can move on to the technical interview.

   Sometimes, it's not enough to interview quality analyst candidates, so you can ask them to do a test project. If you are not a technical person and don't know what a test project should be, you can use these websites:

   • TestDome
   • CodeSignal
   • Testlify
   • BarRaiser
   • Coderbyte

   The right interview questions can help you assess a candidate's hard skills, behavioral intelligence, and soft skills.

7. Send a job offer and onboard your new quality analyst

   Once you've selected the best quality analyst candidate for the job, it's time to write an offer letter. In addition to salary, this letter should include details about the benefits and perks you offer the candidate. Ensuring that your offer is competitive is essential, as qualified candidates may be considering other job opportunities. The candidate may wish to negotiate the terms of the offer, and you should be open to discussion. After you reach an agreement, the final step is formalizing the agreement with a contract.

   It's also important to follow up with applicants who do not get the job with an email letting them know that the position is filled.

   To prepare for the new employee's start date, you can create an onboarding schedule and complete any necessary paperwork, such as employee action forms and onboarding documents like I-9 forms, benefits enrollment, and federal and state tax forms. Human Resources should also ensure that a new employee file is created.

8. Go through the hiring process checklist

   • Determine employee type (full-time, part-time, contractor, etc.)
   • Submit a job requisition form to the HR department
   • Define job responsibilities and requirements
   • Establish budget and timeline
   • Determine hiring decision makers for the role
   • Write job description
   • Post job on job boards, company website, etc.
   • Promote the job internally
   • Process applications through applicant tracking system
   • Review resumes and cover letters
   • Shortlist candidates for screening
   • Hold phone/virtual interview screening with first round of candidates
   • Conduct in-person interviews with top candidates from first round
   • Score candidates based on weighted criteria (e.g., experience, education, background, cultural fit, skill set, etc.)
   • Conduct background checks on top candidates
   • Check references of top candidates
   • Consult with HR and hiring decision makers on job offer specifics
   • Extend offer to top candidate(s)
   • Receive formal job offer acceptance and signed employment contract
   • Inform other candidates that the position has been filled
   • Set and communicate onboarding schedule to new hire(s)
   • Complete new hire paperwork (i9, benefits enrollment, tax forms, etc.)

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