Sr. 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 Aspen Technology is the world’s leading supplier of Asset Optimization software solutions. Our software solutions help our customers to address the Dual Challenge of meeting the growing demand for resources and higher standards of living from a growing population while also addressing sustainability goals, reductions in emissions and reductions in plastic waste in the environment.

This position will work with our Software Development team to ensure high quality through continuous integration and automated testing. This position will promote industry best practices as a part of the Software Engineer in Test team.

Your Impact

• Work with software development groups that create the product as well as engineering groups that deploy the product.
• Work with scrum team(s) to ensure high quality products and superior customer satisfaction.
• Author, execute and maintain test charters, test cases, procedures and plans, automated test scripts and code.
• Design, develop, implement, and improve various test methodologies, plans and automation.
• Review defect descriptions, requirements, and designs to incorporate into test plans.
• Installation automation, test automation, release automation and system administration.
• Build and Configure Continuous Integration setup for test environments.

What You’ll Need

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent years of relevant work experience.
• Strong hands-on experience on Test Automation using Python.
• Software Quality Assurance / Testing experience.
• Extensive knowledge of industry-leading QA tools and methodologies.
• Strong understanding of automation testing best practices.
• High level scripting skills (Python, Perl, Shell scripting).
• Demonstrated ability in creating and communicating testing status dashboards.
• Proficiency with Linux, Windows and UNIX environments.
• Proficiency with a source control system (such as CVS, Subversion, Git, etc.).
• Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills; comfortable communicating and collaborating with geographically distributed teams.
• Innate desires to automate, monitor and continually improve everything in sight.
• Experience with Quality Assurance within an Agile methodology.
• Experience with automation frameworks (Selenium, Robot, Apache JMeter).
• Experience with evaluating, recommending, and deploying new tools and technologies to continually improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the Quality Assurance process.
• Experience with various database technologies (such as MySQL, Cassandra, MongoDB).
• Experience in server virtualization, especially VMWare and VSphere.

Aspen Tech offers a long-term career path with significant opportunities for growth and development in a cutting-edge engineering technology company. If you are passionate about creating safe, sustainable and efficient solutions for the future, we encourage you to apply. Applicants will be reviewed for this position and for similar roles with varying skill requirements and/or years of experience.