Software Engineer in Test - AutoCAD

Position Overview
 

Exciting career opportunity to join the AutoCAD Engineering team in Autodesk Singapore Research & Development Centre, contributing to the quality and reliability of next-generation AutoCAD family products. As a Software Engineer in Test, you will work closely with product owners, software engineers, architects, UX teams, and business stakeholders throughout the product development lifecycle, leveraging modern AI-powered development and testing workflows to ensure product quality. You will apply software engineering principles, automation, and AI-assisted quality engineering techniques to validate functionality, API compatibility, stability, performance, and customer workflows across AutoCAD family products.

As a quality advocate, you will help improve engineering efficiency and product quality through automation, intelligent testing practices, and continuous innovation.

Roles and Responsibilities
 

• Collaborate with developers to ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle

• Design test strategies, create test plans, and execute manual and automated tests to validate new features and product workflows

• Design, develop, and maintain automated tests for unit, functional, API, integration, and end-to-end validation

• Build and enhance automation frameworks, tools, and testing infrastructure

• Estimate, plan, schedule, and coordinate software testing tasks. Execute test plans to validate the quality of product features

• Use AI tools to generate and improve test plans, test cases, and automation scripts

• Review and validate AI-generated code, tests, and specifications for quality and correctness

• Participate in SDD, TDD, and AI-assisted software development workflows

• Perform API, performance, interoperability, and code coverage testing

• Investigate defects, analyze root causes, and collaborate on issue resolution

• Continuously improve engineering productivity, testing practices, and product quality

• Join Beta programs, QA driven customer events, including mass testing efforts such as test fests

• Research in software testing types, methods and emerging technologies and tools

Minimum Qualifications
 

• Bachelor’s / Master’s Degree (in Computer Science or other engineering discipline.) with excellent academic background or work experience

• 0 – 2 years of experience in software development, software testing, quality engineering, or related areas

• Strong programming and problem-solving skills

• Experience with one or more of C++, C#, Python, JavaScript, or similar programming languages

• Experience using AI-powered development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, or similar coding assistants

• Basic understanding of software quality assurance principles, software testing methodologies, and software development lifecycle practices

• Familiarity with automated testing concepts and test automation frameworks

• Understanding of object-oriented programming, software design principles, design patterns, data structures, and algorithms

Preferred Qualifications
 

• Experience using Generative AI for test case generation, test automation development, defect analysis, or quality engineering workflows

• Experience developing or maintaining automated testing frameworks

• Experience with API testing, integration testing, performance testing, or end-to-end automation

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and continuous testing practices

• Experience developing third-party applications for AutoCAD using ObjectARX

• Knowledge of AutoCAD family products, CAD software, or related engineering applications

Qualitative skills
 

• Passion for software quality, automation, and engineering excellence

• Strong software development mindset with an interest in building scalable and maintainable solutions

• Growth mindset and enthusiasm for learning new technologies, especially AI-assisted development and testing tools

• Ability to learn large and complex software systems quickly

• Strong ownership, accountability, and commitment to delivering high-quality results

• Pragmatic, results-oriented, and capable of balancing quality with delivery objectives

• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative and fast-paced engineering environment

• Self-directed, proactive, and willing to take initiative

• Strong attention to detail and ability to identify, analyze, and resolve issues systematically

• Customer-focused mindset with appreciation for product usability, reliability, and performance

• Flexibility under changing conditions and ability to work across multiple projects and priorities

• Excellent collaboration skills and ability to work effectively with local and globally distributed teams

• Willingness to accept constructive feedback and use it for continuous personal and professional growth

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