Software QA Engineer

The successful applicant for this position will play an important QA role in automating and testing of Altair products in a multiplatform environment. In addition, you will work with other QA Engineers across Altair as part of our Quality Center of Excellence including Security Testing, Performance Testing, Automation and more.  

As a member of the Quality Center of Excellence team, you will work closely with product management, software development and applications engineering teams. You must be driven by a desire to be efficient, collaborative, thoughtful and productive in a fast-paced environment of prolific engineers.  

What You Will Do:

• Working independently on all aspects of QA. 
• Proactively identifying problems, researching, and offering solutions. 
• Working with product and delivery teams. 
• Contributing to and reviewing user stories, requirements, and design documents for new features. 
• Writing test scenarios and automated tests based on the use case and requirements. 
• Writing thorough, robust functional, stress, and performance test cases. 
• Executing pre-existing manual and automated tests. 
• Automating test cases using scripting and porting existing automated tests to high performance systems. 
• Serving as an advocate for software quality in both product and test development. 
• Have detailed knowledge of cross-platform software testing tools and environments.  
• Collaborates, communicates well across the QA team, and does not hesitate to work with the cross functional team to solve issues, move initiatives forward (Dev, DevOps, PM, Doc). 
• Goes above and beyond to not only identify bugs but makes them easier to solve by providing minimal steps needed to reproduce and digs deep to help identify a potential root cause (searches log files, uses QA/Dev tools, etc). 

What You Will Need:

Basics:

• Mechanical Engineer: B.E/ B. Tech/ M.E/M. Tech in Mechanical, Industrial Engineering or related field 
• 1 to 3 years of Software Quality Engineering Experience 
• Experience in using CAE products in an industry for Linear or Non-linear analysis
• Experience with scripting using Python or similar.
• Automation experience with Pytest, Ranorex, Selenium or similar tools and frameworks. 
• Strong communication skills, including written and verbal  

Preferred:

• Problem solving and analysis skills
• Quick learner, self motivated, and a strong team player
• Familiarity with Operating Systems such as Windows, UNIX/Linux.