Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer

ASML Germany GmbH; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,250 - 210,375; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401k plan

Vacation and holidays

Job summary

ASML seeks a Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer to lead quality efforts across hardware, software, and systems. You will design validation strategies and drive automation to ensure reliability, performance, and maintainability of diverse software solutions spanning desktop, web, and embedded environments.

The role requires deep SDLC knowledge, hands-on automation, and collaboration across multi-disciplinary teams to achieve scalable quality.

Qualifications

• Master degree with substantial general work experience in QA or related field.
• Seasoned QA professional who has completed at least 1 product development cycle.
• Strong ability to analyze complex systems, decompose requirements, and design validation strategies.

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 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.

Skills

Test design

Automation testing

SDLC knowledge

AI-enabled testing

Automated test frameworks

Hybrid/distributed systems

Troubleshooting

Test types: unit/integration/system/…

C# and/or C++

WCF/WPF testing

CI/CD platforms

Leadership in quality engineering

Education

Master degree or equivalent

Tools

.NET

C#

C++

WCF

WPF

CI/CD platforms

Test automation tools

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

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 thirteen (13) paid holidays throughout the calendar year.

Inclusion and diversity

ASML is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values and respects the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce. It is the policy of the company to recruit, hire, train and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. We recognize that inclusion and diversity is a driving force in the success of our company.

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