Software Quality Engineer I

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.

• 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.

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent.
• Strong hands-on 2+ years experience on Test Automation using Python.
• 2 to 5 years of 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 working 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.
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