Hi everyone,
I have around 4 years of experience in automation testing with skills in Selenium, Java, SQL, API testing, Postman, and REST-assured.
I wanted to understand the current market situation for Automation Testing roles in 2026.
How is the hiring trend right now? Are companies actively hiring automation testers, or is the market slow currently?
Also, which testing skills are getting more interview calls these days?

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Don’t trust people saying it’s not ok, my friend who is an automation tester with C#, working for seimens got opportunity to Germany and he went to Swiss as well

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Bohat kharab hal he , developer ko nai aa rahe calls

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considering he has 4 yoe, he should get calls. I heard people below 5 yoe are getting calls. above that is getting tougher

I have similar skills . 6.5 year experience .
Last year to be frank I had multiple offers. Even with 90 day notice period I got interviews . I used to get more than 10 calls per day. Now after updating naukri , didn't even get one call for many days .weird is recruiters not even checking profile. Last time I don't have to apply to jobs . Recruiters used to contact me .now I have to apply on career portals of companies .
Secured 2 interviews but I decided not to attend due to some personal reasons. I got 2-3 calls asking for various skills like cloud testing ,microservice experience , genai experience . There are openings, but your profile should standout . Now recruitment looks very selective.
Try to learn playwright . many firms are migrating from selenium to playwright. as playwright is better in terms of performance and also supports ai integration

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Thank you bro.

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Currently the industry is looking for candidates having experience in using AI to face pace and automate their tasks using AI. You can add something similar in your resume for improving the probablity of your CV getting shortlisted. But there should be adequate information to support your work and experience.
Rest you will still be judged on your skills and exposure to AI.

Ok bro.

Yes, job market is down. But if you have exposure to AI and low notice period, you still can get a call.
For AI (from QA perspective) - you can read about AI Evals.
Keep heavily applying for jobs.

Thank you brother.

You will get lots of calls for automation dont worry.. i resigned in nov last year since then Im getting only automation calls but I am from manual background

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