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

AspenTech is looking for individuals to join our growing Product Quality Team in the role of Software Quality Engineer testing 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 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.
• 0-3 years’ work experience.
• High level scripting skills (Python, Perl, Shell scripting).
• Proficient with Linux and Windows environments.
• System Administration experience (small system or personal networks is great).
• Understanding of manual and/or automated testing best practices.
• Innate desires to automate, monitor and continually improve everything in sight.
• Experience with different database technologies (SQL, Cassandra, MongoDB).
• Understanding of Configuration Management.
• Knowledge of automation tool building and test automation frameworks.
• Capability to maintain Windows/Linux/UNIX Servers.
• Experience in server virtualization, especially VMWare and VSphere.
• General networking skills (Layer 2 & 3 switches, TCP/IP, SNMP, etc.).
• Experience with a source control system (CVS, Subversion, Git, etc.).