QA Test Engineer- Automation

Why Altium?

Altium is transforming the way electronics are designed and built. From startups to world’s technology giants, our digital platforms give more power to PCB designers, supply chains, and manufacturing, letting them collaborate as never before.

• Constant innovation has created a transformative technology, unique in its space
• More than 30,000 companies and 100,000 electronics engineers worldwide use Altium
• We are growing, debt-free, and financially strong, with the resources to become #1 in the EDA industry

Transforming Sourcing into a Competitive Advantage is the mission of Part Analytics, an Altium Company. Our AI-powered supply management software empowers manufacturing companies to accelerate product development, improve profit margin and uncover hidden risks in the supply chain. We are looking for a QA Automation Tester to help develop and execute software QA plans for application. As a Software Tester, you will have a major role to play in the quality assurance stage of software development. As part of this role, you will be exploring the web app to understand different use cases with support from product owner, creating and executing QA plans. In addition to supporting team in doing manual testing, you will be writing scripts and create automation environments for repeated tests. Your goal is to automate as much of the testing effort as possible with a minimum set of code.

• Build the test automation framework for the organization using Selenium
• Perform tests on all parts of the product's infrastructure, such as multiple web portals, secure API testing, databases and networks
• Write, design, and execute automated tests by creating scripts in common languages, such as Java or Python
• Work with the Development team to capture and reuse automated Unit Test Cases/Integration Test cases
• Maximize test coverage for the most critical features of the system
• Determine the priority for test scenarios and create execution plans to implement these scenarios
• Write documentation for automated processes including test plans, test procedures, and test cases
• Support the team with manual testing as needed
• Log errors and communicate them to rest of the team using tools such as Jira

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent 
• 2-5 years of experience in test automation (real world, not academic).
• Experience with engineering test cases for new functionality.
• Experience in developing automation scripts (not just record and playback)
• Experience in regression testing
• Exposure to performance testing tools such as JMeter
• Experience in creating and executing tests for APIs. Experience with Postman is a plus
• Experience with JIRA and GitHub
• Experience in project management and QA methodology including identifying criticality, severity and focus on Built-In Quality
• Analytical mind and problem-solving aptitude
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

✈️ Annual leave

🤒 Paid sick leave, bereavement leave

👶 Maternity/paternity leave

🎊 Public holidays

🏥 Medical insurance

🚘 Business travel and meal allowance

🖥 Home internet allowance 

🧘 Employee Mental Assistance Program

🎁 Work anniversary gifts

🥳 Employee referral and employee-of-the-month programs

📚 Professional development support

🥪 Lunch coupons and cafeteria refreshments in the office