SW QA Engineer Associate

About the Role

Siemens Digital Industries Software is seeking a Software QA Engineer to join their Engineering Intelligence team. The role focuses on ensuring the quality, reliability, and performance of cloud-delivered engineering applications. This position involves working with various stakeholders to define and execute end-to-end workflows across SaaS, OnPrem, and High Performance Computing (HPC) environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and execute comprehensive testing: Plan and perform functional, integration, system, exploratory, end-to-end, and performance testing for complex engineering and cloud-delivered applications.
• Validate engineering workflows: Test simulation-driven workflows from model setup and execution through solver behavior and result validation, ensuring both functional correctness and engineering credibility.
• Build test automation: Develop, maintain, and enhance automated test suites using modern frameworks such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or similar technologies.
• Test cloud and distributed applications: Validate web-based and cloud-native applications across microservices, event-driven architectures, and distributed environments.
• Analyze and troubleshoot quality issues: Investigate failures, defects, performance bottlenecks, and unexpected behaviors; perform root-cause analysis and verify fixes.
• Work with CI/CD and engineering infrastructure: Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and troubleshoot test environments across Windows, Linux, containers, and Kubernetes-based environments.
• Drive quality across the product lifecycle: Collaborate with developers, architects, product owners, and domain experts to define acceptance criteria, identify quality risks, and continuously improve test strategy and coverage.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• • years of hands-on software QA/testing experience involving technically complex software, with strong experience in test planning, execution, defect analysis, and validation.
• Strong experience with web/UI test automation using Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or similar frameworks.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or equivalent.
• Working knowledge of Windows and Linux/Unix environments, with strong debugging and troubleshooting skills.
• Understanding of microservices, event-driven architectures, and distributed applications, with exposure to troubleshooting Kubernetes-based environments.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, debugging, and communication skills, with the ability to work independently and collaborate effectively in Agile teams.

Preferred Experience

• Experience with engineering simulation, CAE, CAD, or other scientific/technical software, including understanding of simulation workflows.
• Strong understanding of simulation concepts such as meshing, physics modeling, solver configuration, convergence, numerical stability, and result validation.
• Experience with API testing using tools such as Postman and performance testing using JMeter, Gatling, or similar.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP and testing applications deployed in cloud environments.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes, including debugging applications and test environments in containerized environments.
• Experience testing HPC environments, including Linux clusters, MPI-based workloads, and job schedulers such as Slurm or PBS.
• Experience with performance, scalability, reliability, or security testing of distributed or cloud-based applications.