Let ${\left( {a;q} \right)_n}=\prod\limits_{j = 0}^{n - 1} {(1-{q^j}a} )$ and let $ {{n}\brack{k}}_q$ denote a $q-$binomial coefficient.
I am interested in $q-$analogues of the identity $ \sum\limits_{j = - k}^k {{{( - 1)}^{ j}}}\binom{n}{k-j}\binom{n}{k+j}=\binom{n}{k}$ where the left-hand side has the form $\sum\limits_{j =-k}^k {(-1)^{j}} q^{a(j)} {{n}\brack{k-j}}_q{{n}\brack{k+j}}_q $ and the right-hand side gives a simple result.
It is known that
for $a(j)= {\frac{j(3j-1)}{2}}$ the right-hand side is ${{n}\brack{k}}_q ,$
for $a(j)=j^2$ the right-hand side is ${{n}\brack{k}}_{q^2}$
and for $a(j)=\binom{j}{2}$ it is $q^{nk-k^2}{{n}\brack{k}}_{q}. $
Computer experiments suggest also the following evaluations: The right-hand side is $(q^{k}+q^{n-k}-q^n){{n}\brack{k}}_{q}$ for $a(j)=3\binom{j}{2}$
and $q^k {{n}\brack{k}}_{q}{\frac{(-q^{n-k+1};q)_{k-1}(1+q^{n-2k}) }{(-q;q)_k}}$ for $a(j)=2\binom{j}{2}.$
I would be interested if the last two results are special cases of some $q-$hypergeometric summation or if there is a direct proof known.