How to hire a testing coordinator

How to hire a testing coordinator, step by step

Here's a step-by-step testing coordinator hiring guide:

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

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1. Identify your hiring needs

   Before you start hiring a testing coordinator, identify what type of worker you actually need. Certain positions might call for a full-time employee, while others can be done by a part-time worker or contractor.

   Determine employee vs contractor status

   Is the person you're thinking of hiring a US citizen or green card holder?

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   A testing coordinator's background is also an important factor in determining whether they'll be a good fit for the position. For example, testing coordinators from different industries or fields will have radically different experiences and will bring different viewpoints to the role. You also need to consider the candidate's previous level of experience to make sure they'll be comfortable with the job's level of seniority.

   Here's a comparison of testing coordinator salaries for various roles:

   Type of Testing Coordinator	Description	Hourly rate
   Testing Coordinator		$25-44
   Quality Assurance	The primary role of quality assurance specialists is to inspect the quality system's implementation and perform quality assurance audits. They are responsible for monitoring and recording results from procedures and processes within manufacturing industries... Show more	$13-44
   Quality Analyst	Pumpers are individuals who take responsibility for setting the pumping system controls for product maximization. Their job requires them to set density, concentration, rate, and pressure... Show more	$26-44

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2. Create an ideal candidate profile

   Common skills:

   • Test Results
   • Test Procedures
   • Test Plan
   • Status Reports
   • Project Management
   • Test Scripts
   • Data Entry
   • Test Cases
   • Test Data
   • QA
   • Test Execution
   • UAT
   • PowerPoint
   • Data Collection

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   Responsibilities:

   • Achieve significant reduction in JCL run time by optimizing existing source code.
   • Coordinate, manage, and monitor testing activities relating to functional regression testing and performance testing execution.
   • Code COBOL and COBOL DB2 programs and test them thoroughly.
   • Used HTML, CSS, JavaScript for client-side.
   • Create and modify JCL jobs in production.
   • Participate in daily scrum, sprint planning, story review and release planning meetings.

   More testing coordinator duties

3. Make a budget

   Including a salary range in the testing coordinator job description is a good way to get more applicants. A testing coordinator salary can be affected by several factors, such as the location of the job, the level of experience, education, certifications, and the employer's prestige.

   For example, the average salary for a testing coordinator in Arizona may be lower than in Nevada, and an entry-level engineer typically earns less than a senior-level testing coordinator. Additionally, a testing coordinator with lots of experience in the field may command a higher salary as a result.

   Average testing coordinator salary

   $69,438yearly

   $33.38 hourly rate

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   Entry-level testing coordinator salary

   $52,000 yearly salary

   Updated January 19, 2026

   Average testing coordinator salary by state

   Rank	State	Avg. salary	Hourly rate
   1	California	$84,669	$41
   2	Nevada	$83,421	$40
   3	North Carolina	$80,627	$39
   4	Georgia	$74,765	$36
   5	Virginia	$73,004	$35
   6	Massachusetts	$71,740	$34
   7	Maryland	$69,517	$33
   8	Texas	$69,050	$33
   9	Illinois	$68,729	$33
   10	New Jersey	$68,558	$33
   11	Connecticut	$68,194	$33
   12	Minnesota	$68,114	$33
   13	Iowa	$67,396	$32
   14	Missouri	$66,186	$32
   15	South Dakota	$66,036	$32
   16	Nebraska	$64,980	$31
   17	New Mexico	$64,762	$31
   18	Ohio	$63,114	$30
   19	New York	$62,569	$30
   20	Michigan	$62,359	$30

   Average testing coordinator salary by company

   Company

   Rank	Company	Average salary	Hourly rate	Job openings
   1	Citi	$110,546	$53.15
   2	Riverside Medical Center	$101,066	$48.59
   3	Bank of America	$90,335	$43.43
   4	U.S. Bank	$88,672	$42.63
   5	Dollar Tree	$87,110	$41.88
   6	University Health System Inc	$85,490	$41.10	3
   7	Valeo Electrical Systems, Inc.	$81,582	$39.22
   8	Health Alliance	$81,392	$39.13	4
   9	Advent Software	$80,938	$38.91
   10	Saks Fifth Avenue	$80,539	$38.72
   11	Oracle	$80,326	$38.62	4
   12	Los Alamos National Laboratory	$79,951	$38.44	1
   13	Rutgers University	$79,807	$38.37
   14	Acuity Insurance	$78,728	$37.85
   15	UMiami Health System	$78,054	$37.53
   16	Methodist Health System	$76,726	$36.89	2
   17	ICONMA	$76,712	$36.88
   18	RS Software	$75,120	$36.12
   19	SS&C Technologies	$75,095	$36.10
   20	Murata Electronics (Finland)	$74,612	$35.87

4. Writing a testing coordinator job description

   A job description for a testing coordinator 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 testing coordinator job description:

   Testing coordinator job description example

   The Campus Testing Coordinator is a campus based position that owns all things testing for their designated campus. This includes all testing preparation, training, reporting, and logistics. The Campus Testing Coordinator fills a key role in ensuring our schools have a smooth testing process that supports students' learning, high achievement, and accurate reporting.
   Key Responsibilities
   
   Test Accountability - Receiving, Inventorying, securing, distributing all paper assessments including IA, Wheatley and Eureka Unit Tests, STEP, STAAR.
   
   Pickup and drop off for STAAR and electronic set-up verification for any electronic assessments such as CIRCLE, IPT, TELPAS, and MAP. The focus on a high stakes test (STAAR, MAP, IA) begins at minimum 1 week prior to the test to ensure everything is in place.
   
   Test Accommodations - Assigning student's legal accommodations within the test set-up, grouping of students, ratios, and specific teacher training for the accommodations.
   
   Staff Training - Executing staff training including legal state training and recording any certificates that go w/ the training. Attends all assessment trainings as directed by the State Assessment Coordinator.
   
   Test Execution - Administering the test and monitoring the testing environment and students. Ensure testing procedures and regulations are followed.
   
   Test Close Out - Accounting for all testing materials, test scoring, and data roll up for school academics team.
   
   Schedules - Alternative schedules for the school during testing including room changes, excellence rotation changes, lunch schedules. This is not limited to their own school's testing, as some schools share spaces with other schools on the campus and may need to make schedule adjustments to share space (E.g. MS and HS sharing of the cafeteria).
   
   Test Reporting - Any and all reporting for the test, such as the required documents for the student folders , test results for families, other reports.
   
   Set-up - Set-up request for facilities, student meal request, and outsourced staff meals orders if the SL request this.
   
   Regional Connection - Liaison between the campus and the State Assessment Coordinator for proper implementation of assessment guidelines and criteria.

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5. Post your job

   To find testing coordinators for your business, try out a few different recruiting strategies:

   • Consider internal talent. One of the most important talent pools for any company is its current employees.
   • Ask for referrals. Reach out to friends, family members, and your current work to ask if they know any testing coordinators they would recommend.
   • Recruit at local colleges. Attend job fairs at local colleges to recruit entry-level testing coordinators with the right educational background.
   • Social media platforms. LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter have more than 3.5 billion users, and they're a great place for company branding and reaching potential job candidates.

   Post your job online:

   • Post your testing coordinator job on Zippia to find and recruit testing coordinator candidates who meet your exact specifications.
   • Use field-specific websites such as dice, engineering.com, stack overflow, it job pro.
   • Post a job on free websites.

6. Interview candidates

   Your first interview with testing coordinator candidates should focus on their interest in the role and background experience. As the hiring process goes on, you can learn more about how they'd fit into the company culture in later rounds of interviews.

   You should also ask about candidates' unique skills and talents to see if they match the ideal candidate profile you developed earlier. Candidates good enough for the next step can complete the technical interview.

   While interviews are great, you will only sometimes learn enough from a conversation with a testing coordinator applicant. In those cases, having candidates complete a test project can go a long way in figuring out who's the most likely to succeed in the role. If you aren't a technical person and don't know how to design an appropriate test, you can ask someone else on the team to create it or take a look at these websites to get a few ideas:

   • 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 testing coordinator

   Once you've found the testing coordinator candidate you'd like to hire, it's time to write an offer letter. This should include an explicit job offer that includes the salary and the details of any other perks. Qualified candidates might be looking at multiple positions, so your offer must be competitive if you like the candidate. Also, be prepared for a negotiation stage, as candidates may way want to tweak the details of your initial offer. Once you've settled on these details, you can draft a contract to formalize your agreement.

   You should also follow up with applicants who don't get the job with an email letting them know that you've filled the position.

   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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