Associate Software Quality Engineer

Arpatech; Medina; On-site; SAR 207,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology solutions company in Saudi Arabia is seeking a Software Quality Engineer to join their Product Quality Team. In this role, you will create and execute testing approaches for innovative Operational Technology products. The ideal candidate has a Bachelor's degree in a related field, scripting skills, and is proficient in both Linux and Windows environments. This position offers competitive salary and comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

Paid time off

Medical/dental/vision insurance

Retirement benefits

Qualifications

• 0-3 years’ work experience.
• System Administration experience.
• Understanding of manual and/or automated testing best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, execute, and maintain test automation including backend, UI, and API.
• Perform requirements analysis and report defects.
• Engage with cross-functional and international teams.

Skills

High level scripting skills (Python, Perl, Shell scripting)

Proficient with Linux and Windows environments

General networking skills (Layer 2 & 3 switches, TCP/IP, SNMP)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field

Tools

Automation tool building and test automation frameworks

Experience with different database technologies (SQL, Cassandra, MongoDB)

Job description

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

AspenTech is looking for individuals to join our growing Product Quality Team in the role of Software Quality Engineer testing Aspen Products providing next generation Engineering, Manufacturing, and Asset Optimization solutions. This is your opportunity to play an important role in this cutting‑edge transformation. We are looking for a Software Quality Engineer to create and execute testing approaches for our market-leading Operational Technology (OT) products, with a key objective of designing and developing low maintenance and portable test automation scripts using some of the latest industry technologies. You will create robust test strategies to search out product issues while assuring that the product line conforms to established requirements and standards. You will also be responsible for gathering functional requirements, information, and data to proactively drive quality best practices while collaborating with R&D and Product Management.

Your Impact

• Design, build, execute, and maintain test automation including backend, UI, and API.
• Create automated test scripts for non-functional system verification.
• Work within CI/CD pipelines to build, configure, and patch multiple test environments.
• Perform requirements analysis, create, and execute test strategies and test cases, troubleshoot issues, and report defects.
• Manually execute complex functional and non-functional tests.
• Engage with cross-functional and international teams on status updates and problem solving in an agile environment.

What You'll Need

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field.
• 0-3 years’ work experience.
• High level scripting skills (Python, Perl, Shell scripting).
• Proficient with Linux and Windows environments.
• System Administration experience (small system or personal networks is great).
• Understanding of manual and/or automated testing best practices.
• Innate desires to automate, monitor and continually improve everything in sight.
• Experience with different database technologies (SQL, Cassandra, MongoDB) preferred.
• Understanding of Configuration Management preferred.
• Knowledge of automation tool building and test automation frameworks preferred.
• Capability to maintain Windows/Linux/UNIX Servers preferred.
• Experience in server virtualization, especially VMWare and VSphere preferred.
• General networking skills (Layer 2 & 3 switches, TCP/IP, SNMP, etc.) preferred.
• Experience with a source control system (CVS, Subversion, Git, etc.) preferred.

The salary range for this role is $55,400.00 - $69,300.00. This range represents what we in good faith believe is the range possible for base compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range based on several factors. This range may be modified in the future. This role is also eligible for bonus or variable incentive pay. Additionally, we offer a comprehensive benefits package including paid time off, charitable giveback day, medical/dental/vision insurance, and retirement benefits to eligible employees.