Quality Analyst

Quality Analyst (Desktop Software)

Position Overview

As a global leader in 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software, Autodesk helps people imagine, design, and create a better world. Autodesk accelerates better design through an unparalleled depth of experience and a broad portfolio of software to give customers the power to solve their design, business, and environmental challenges. In addition to designers, architects, engineers, and media and entertainment professionals, Autodesk helps students, educators, and casual creators unlock their creative ideas through user-friendly applications.

Take this opportunity to be part of a global team building industry-leading software for automotive and mobility design studios. Our goal is to provide innovative and contemporary capabilities and workflows for the entire creative design process from concept to production surfacing.

The Automotive and Conceptual Design team is seeking an experienced Quality Analyst to join our passionate group of professional QA analysts. This position is an exciting opportunity to ensure the quality of our products and contribute to our goal of delivering exceptional customer experiences for the Alias and VRED product line and the recently announced Autodesk AI-powered capabilities for automotive design studios. If you have a passion for quality assurance, have excellent analytical skills and enjoy working in an innovative and agile environment, you’ll be a perfect match for our team.

Job Title: Quality Analyst

Locations can be: Hannover, Germany; Darmstadt, Germany; Berlin, Germany

Hybrid: One to two days onsite in the office per week.

Responsibilities:

•       Collaborate closely with product management, experience design, and engineering to ensure that products, services, and capabilities are designed and created with the highest quality standards.

•       Develop, execute, improve, and document test plans, test cases, and test scripts to provide comprehensive and practical testing of our deliverables.

•       Conduct manual and automated quality assurance to ensure our products meet business requirements and exceed customer expectations.

•       Identify, track and report software defects and work with cross-functional teams to resolve them.  

•       Continuously improve testing processes, tools, and practices to ensure that quality standards are met in the context of evolving complexity and interdependencies.

•       Conduct functional and regression testing to uncover defects that existing test cases may not cover.

Minimum Qualifications:

•       A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, software engineering, information technology or a related field. 

•       3+ years of proven experience in a Quality Assurance role, in a desktop software development environment, preferably on Windows and Linux

•       Demonstrable experience with quality assurance for geometric modelling and/or 3D visualisation desktop applications

•       Familiarity with performance and load testing, both manual and automated.

•       Strong understanding of Quality Assurance disciplines, designing tests based on user stories, and testing methodologies, including the authoring of functional test plans, regression testing, and performance/load testing scripts

•       Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

•       Exceptional team player with experience working on a scrum team developing desktop products and/or cloud services; understands software and/or services architecture, development, and testing; understands Agile and Scaled Agile

•       Knowledge of automated testing tools for Desktop applications

Preferred Qualifications:

•       Knowledge of scripting languages (Python or Perl).

•       Experience working with automation frameworks that scale, using tools like Cypress, Playwright, Behave, Robot Framework, or similar

•       Familiarity with AWS (Amazon Web Services) or other equivalent public clouds

•       Knowledge of AI/ML fundamentals, algorithms, and related concepts

•       Knowledge of Autodesk Alias, Autodesk VRED, or other computer-aided industrial design or 3D visualisation software is a plus

•       Familiarity with automotive design and visualisation is a plus

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