Senior Software Quality Engineer

The driving force behind our success has always been the people of AspenTech. What drives us, is our aspiration, our desire and ambition to keep pushing the envelope, overcoming any hurdle, challenging the status quo to continually find a better way. You will experience these qualities of passion, pride and aspiration in many ways — from a rich set of career development programs to support of community service projects to social events that foster fun and relationship building across our global community.

The Role

We are looking for a Software Quality Engineer to create and execute testing approaches for our market-leading Operational Technology (OT) products, with a key objective of designing and developing low maintenance and portable test automation scripts using some of the latest industry technologies. You will create robust test strategies to search out product issues while assuring that the product line conforms to established requirements and standards. You will also be responsible for gathering functional requirements, information, and data to proactively drive quality best practices while collaborating with R&D and Product Management.

Your Impact

• Design, build, execute, and maintain test automation including backend, UI, and API.
• Create automated test scripts for non-functional system verification.
• Work within CI/CD pipelines to build, configure, and patch multiple test environments.
• Perform requirements analysis, create and execute test strategies and test cases, troubleshoot issues, and report defects.
• Manually execute complex functional and non-functional tests.
• Engage with cross-functional and international teams on status updates and problem solving in an agile environment.

What You'll Need

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field.
• 3-8 years’ work experience.
• Ability to independently lead technical task planning, execution and completion.
• Established scripting skills (Python, Perl, Shell scripting).
• Established experience with test automation tools and frameworks (pytest, RobotFramework, Selenium, Playwright)
• Proficient in a source control system (CVS, Subversion, Git, etc.).
• Proficient with Linux and Windows environments.
• System Administration experience (small system or personal networks is great).
• Skilled in manual and automated testing best practices.
• Innate desires to automate, monitor and continually improve everything in sight.
• Experience with different database technologies (SQL, Cassandra, MongoDB).
• Experience with Configuration Management.
• Capability to maintain Windows/Linux/UNIX Servers.
• Experience in server virtualization, especially VMWare.
• General networking skills (Layer 2 & 3 switches, TCP/IP, SNMP, etc.).
• Utility Industry experience working with or developing control system technology software.