Principal Software Quality Engineer

AspenTech is a global software leader helping industries meet the increasing demand for resources from a rapidly growing population in a profitable and sustainable manner. Our Digital Grid Management software suite, including AspenTech OSI products, helps power and utilities companies achieve superior real-time control, optimization and management for exceptional performance of complex energy networks.

The Role

AspenTech is looking for individuals to join our growing Product Quality Team in the role of Principal Software Quality Engineer leading the testing of Aspen Products providing next generation Engineering, Manufacturing, and Asset Optimization solutions. This is your opportunity to play an important role in this cutting-edge transformation.

We are looking for a Software Quality Engineer to lead the creation and execution of 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 lead the creation of robust test strategies within specific functional areas and across the organization to search out product issues while assuring that the product line conforms to established requirements and standards. You will also be responsible for leading the gathering of functional requirements, information, and data to proactively drive quality best practices while collaborating with R&D and Product Management.

Your Impact

• Lead team members providing guidance and feedback with their tasks.
• Proactively engage with cross-functional and international teams in an agile environment to achieve team and department objectives.
• Lead the analysis of requirements, creation, and execution of test strategies and test cases, troubleshooting of issues and reporting of defects.
• Lead the design, build, execution, and maintenance of test automation including API, UI, and non-functional verification.
• Lead the utilization of CI/CD pipelines to build, configure, and patch multiple test environments.
• Lead the execution of complex manual functional and non-functional tests.

What You'll Need

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field.
• 8+ years of experience with test automation tools and frameworks (examples may include pytest, RobotFramework, Selenium, Playwright).
• Ability to independently lead technical task planning, execution, and results.
• Established scripting skills (Python, Perl, Shell scripting).
• Experience with a source control system (CVS, Subversion, Git, etc.).
• Experience with Linux and Windows environments.
• Skilled in manual and automated testing best practices.
• Innate desires to automate, monitor and continually improve everything in sight.
• Proven technical leadership experience.
• Technical team management preferred.
• Experience with different database technologies preferred (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.
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