Software Quality Engineer
AspenTech · Köln
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The Role
This is an opportunity to join our growing Product Quality team as a Software Quality Engineer. In this role, you will be responsible for functional and non-functional testing (including performance and automation testing) of the AspenTech Inmation Data Fabric products. You will work closely with front-end and back-end software developers and Product Management to gather functional requirements, understand system behavior, and proactively drive quality best practices throughout the product lifecycle.Your Impact
- Deliver a high-quality products by creating manual and automated tests including test environments, installations, upgrades, and configuration in accordance with technical specifications.
- Design and perform unit, integration, end-to-end, and performance testing in an iterative, agile development environment.
- Engage and communicate with internal stakeholders to understand project requirements and expectations.
- Drive test automation for API, UI, system, and integration testing using the MSTest framework, C#, Lua, PowerShell and Cypress.
- Design, maintain, and execute performance, scalability, and stress tests.
- Share knowledge with the team by participating in code reviews and pair programming.
- Work effectively both as an individual contributor and as part of a collaborative team in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
What You'll Need
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 2 years of experience as a Software Developer or Software Developer in Test.
- Advanced knowledge of at least one modern operating system.
- Comfortable using one or more programming or scripting languages to automate tasks and solve problems.
- Willingness to learn something new.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.
- Fluency in English.
Nice-to-Have Qualifications
- Solid understanding of cloud-based deployments, including familiarity with deployment infrastructures, virtualization technologies, and modern hosting environments.
- Good knowledge of core IT concepts, including networking, databases, server architectures, communication protocols, and information security principles.
- Strong understanding of modern software development lifecycles, methodologies, and supporting tools, with the ability to quickly adapt to new platforms, IDEs, compilers, source control systems, and issue-tracking tools.
- Experience with test automation, performance testing, database validation, and the use of testing frameworks and tools.