Test Automation Statistics For 2025

We recently interviewed 1,400 QA professionals in the State of Quality Report 2025 to arrive at these test automation statistics for 2025. 72% of them have up to 10 years of experience, and 16.2% of them have from 6-9 years of experience. The topics we surveyed include:

1. The rise of hybrid testers and the skillset required of one
2. Job satisfaction of testers
3. The rise of AI in testing
   
4. Challenges in scaling QA practices in an organization and how to overcome
5. Speed vs. quality in software development
6. QA leadership
7. Strategic drivers in modern QA
   

Here are some notable statistics from the survey:

Here are some more insights you may find valuable:

• Up to 82% of testers still use manual testing in their day-to-day work. Around 45% of them automate regression testing for better efficiency. Regression testing is also the most automated.
• The top challenges in achieving quality goals are Insufficient time for thorough testing (55%) and High workload (44%).
• The main challenges of testers face in their QA career are: 
• Top automation testing tools/frameworks their team are currently using include Selenium, Postman, Katalon, and Cucumber.
• 61% expressed an interest in exploring AI-driven testing tools, while another 48% shared that CI/CD tools are their plan to adopt.
•  72% are using AI (ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Claude) for test case and script generation, another 35% use it for test optimization.
• 82% QAs believe that AI is going to be important in the next 3-5 years.
• Up to 51.53% of these testers involved end-users in their testing process. Only 4.9% never do so.
• 36% recorded positive ROI in their projects, with a decent 21% seeing significant ROI.
• Most effective strategies for scaling AI in the future include increasing automation coverage (72.88%) and investing in AI/ML (67.16%).

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