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Professionals · code 2519

Software and applications developers and analysts not elsewhere classified

This unit group covers software and applications developers and analysts not classified elsewhere in Minor Group 251: Software and Applications Developers and Analysts. For instance, the group includes those professionals specializing in quality assurance, including software testing. In such cases tasks would include - (a) developing and documenting software testing plans; (b) installing software and hardware and configuring operating system software in preparation for testing; (c) verifying that programs function according to user requirements and established guidelines; (d) executing, analysing and documenting results of software application tests and information and telecommunication systems tests; (e) developing and implementing software and information system testing policies, procedures and scripts. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Quality assurance analyst (computers) - Software tester - Systems tester

Most of the tasks are affected. It ranks 395 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • software tester
  • ICT auditor manager
  • ICT test analyst
  • ICT quality assurance manager
  • ICT disaster recovery analyst
  • data quality specialist

Job titles from the EU's ESCO list. Search for any of them on the jobs page and you'll end up here.

45
Holds up
against AI Exposed: Gradient 3

AI could take on 55 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 55 = 45

That's the whole sum, and you can check it against the ILO's study.

11.6
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, averaged across 15 US jobs , so treat it as rough

15.6
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 21.2 · hand skill 17.7 · cramped spaces 7.8 · averaged

Kind of hands-on work · hands-on under 50 Less than half hands-on

Less than half of this job is hands-on. Robots still matter, but for a smaller part of the work, so we don't sort it any further.

estimated O*NET 31.0 BLS occupational crosswalk chain ISCO-08 to 2010 SOC (Aug 2012, rev. Jun 2015); 2010 to 2018 SOC (Nov 2017); O*NET-SOC 2019 taxonomy data 0.7-work-setting measures chosen by Frey & Osborne (2017) · the grouping is a sorting, not a measurement

What this number leaves out This job rates 11.6 out of 100 for how hands-on it is. The score above only looks at AI tools, not robots, but for work this far from the physical that matters less.

The tasks behind the score

The score is the average of these. A job is really a bundle of tasks, and an average can hide how uneven that bundle is.

The task AI could do most of scores 67.8, while the average is 55. A big gap means some of this job is wide open to AI and some of it barely at all. That's quite different from a job where everything sits somewhere in the middle, even when the averages match.

  1. 67.8

    Developing and implementing software and information system testing policies, procedures and scripts.

    Medium
  2. 66.5

    Developing and documenting software testing plans

    Medium
  3. 66.3

    Executing, analysing and documenting results of software application tests and information and telecommunication systems tests

    Medium
  4. 39.6

    Verifying that programmes function according to user requirements and established guidelines

    Low
  5. 35

    Installing software and hardware and configuring operating system software in preparation for testing

    Low

5 tasks · the High to Very Low labels are the ILO's

from the source Working Paper 140, Generative AI and Jobs 2025 index data 0.7-work-setting

Helped, or replaced?

The score above can't tell a tool that makes you faster from one that does the task instead of you. Jobs and Skills Australia looked at those two things separately, and this is their result, matched to this job.

3 Australian jobs match this one, and we've simply averaged them. Treat the numbers as a rough guide.

AI helps you
76.3
AI does it for you
59.3

Helping wins by 17 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 2611, 2613, 2632

Compared with similar jobs

There are 92 jobs in the “Professionals” group, averaging 61.5. This one is below that.