What skills do you need to become a Quality Assurance Engineer?

An eye for finding faults or gaps is the primary skill that is required in a good QAE.

They should be able to find out issues in any product, even in normal life. This goes a long way in Software.

Also being able to do report back properly (with proper details, screenshots, comments, steps to reproduce, etc.) is also required.

And with changing technology scene it’s also essential that QAE learns automation and a little coding.