Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer

ASML Germany GmbH; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401k plan

Paid vacation time

Job summary

ASML Germany GmbH in San Jose, CA is seeking a Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer to lead validation across hardware, software, and system integrations. You will design test strategies, build automated frameworks, and contribute to CI/CD pipelines to ensure robust, scalable solutions.

You will mentor peers, apply root-cause analysis, and drive best practices in testing across a hybrid work environment with three in-office days per week and occasional travel.

Qualifications

• Master's degree or equivalent with substantial general work experience.
• Seasoned designer with completion of at least 1 product development cycle.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute test strategies to support product roadmaps.
• Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks and suites.
• Apply root-cause analysis to software quality issues.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure testability and reliability.
• Validate hardware-software integrations in complex systems.
• Drive adoption of software quality best practices and CI/CD integration.
• Review requirements and design documents to identify test coverage gaps.
• Participate in defect triage and resolution activities.
• Establish quality standards and reporting mechanisms.
• Mentor team members on quality engineering methods.

Skills

QA Automation

C#

C++

Test Automation

CI/CD

SDLC

Unit Testing

Integration Testing

System Testing

Performance Testing

Debugging

Hybrid Environments

Education

Master's Degree

Tools

WCF

WPF

CI/CD Platforms

.NET Technologies

Job description

Introduction to the job

Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer will play a critical role in ensuring the quality, reliability, performance, and maintainability of software solutions that drive customer satisfaction. We are looking for an experienced QA professional and technical leader with strong analytical, test design, automation, and problem-solving skills. The ideal candidate demonstrates technical depth, curiosity, integrity, and a results-oriented mindset.

As a key member of a highly integrated, multidisciplinary team of software, systems, applications, hardware, and algorithm engineers, you will be responsible for validating complex software systems spanning hardware, firmware, operating systems, desktop applications, and web applications. Proven ability to thrive in collaborative teams while solving complex quality, scalability, and reliability challenges across the full technology stack.

Role and responsibilities

• Develop and execute comprehensive test strategies to support product and technology roadmaps.

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks and test suites for functional, integration, system, regression, and performance testing.

• Apply systematic root-cause analysis to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve software quality issues.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure system designs support testability, manufacturability, reliability, and serviceability.

• Validate technical integration of hardware and software solutions across complex systems.

• Drive adoption of software quality best practices, including test automation, quality metrics, defect prevention, and continuous testing.

• Contribute to and enhance Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for automated build verification, testing, and release validation.

• Review software requirements, architecture, and design documents to identify test coverage gaps and quality risks.

• Participate in defect triage, issue prioritization, and resolution activities.

• Establish quality standards, test processes, and reporting mechanisms across development projects.

• Mentor team members on quality engineering methodologies and automation practices.

Education and experience

Requirements

Master degree with substantial general work experience, or equivalent working and thinking level. Comprehensive job related experience in own expertise area to fully competence level.

Seasoned designer within own competence and has completed at least 1 product development cycle

Skills

• Ability to analyze complex systems, decompose requirements, and develop comprehensive test plans and validation strategies.

• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC), quality assurance methodologies, and testing best practices.

• Able to execute AI enable testing

• Experience designing and implementing scalable automated test frameworks.

• Ability to validate legacy and modern systems operating in hybrid environments.

• Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills across distributed and integrated systems.

• Experience designing and executing:

  • Unit testing

  • Integration testing

  • System testing

  • Regression testing

  • Performance testing

  • End-to-end validation testing

• Proficient in .NET technologies and programming languages such as C# and/or C++.

• Hands-on experience testing WCF and WPF applications.

• Experience validating distributed systems, state machines, and parallel processing applications.

• Experience with test automation tools, defect tracking systems, and CI/CD platforms.

• 8+ years of experience in software quality assurance, test automation, or software validation using C#, .NET, and/or C++.

• 3+ years of experience leading quality engineering initiatives, test architecture design, automation strategy, or validation of complex software systems.

Other information

• Hybrid work model requiring a minimum of 3 days per week in the office.

• Travel 1–2 times per year to support software validation and customer-site quality initiative

The current base annual salary range for this role is currently:

$140,250-210,375

Pay scales are determined by role, level, location and alignment with market data. Individual pay is determined through interviews and an assessment of several factors that that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, relevant education and experience, certifications, abilities of the candidate and pay relative to other team members.

The Company offers employees and their families, medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Employees are able to participate in the Company’s 401k plan. Employees will also receive eight (8) hours of vacation leave every month and (13) paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Compensation & Benefits in the US.

All new ASML jobs have a minimum application deadline of 10 days.

Inclusion and diversity

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