Transforming the Future with the Convergence of Simulation and Data
Software Quality Assurance Engineer
Do you like a challenge, are you a complex thinker who likes to solve problems? If so, then you might be the new Altairian we are searching for. At Altair, your curiosity matters. We pride ourselves on a business culture that enables open, creative thinking, and we deeply value our employees and their contributions towards our clients' success, as well as our own.
Job Summary:
Altair is focused on the development and broad application of simulation technology to synthesize and optimize designs, processes and decisions for improved business performance. With more than 2,000 employees, Altair is headquartered in Troy, Michigan, USA and operates 68 offices throughout 24 countries. Today, Altair serves more than 5,000 customers across broad industry segments.
Altair's workload management solutions (Accelerator, PBS Professional, LQS) are in use in the world's top tier technology companies. Supported operating systems include Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Microsoft Windows. In addition, Altair's Monitor, Allocator and FlowTracer products are widely used in the high tech industry.
The successful applicant for this position will play an important QA role in automating and testing the above Altair products in a multiplatform environment. In addition, you 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 Software Quality Assurance team, you will work closely with the 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 in product and delivery Agile scrum 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:
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How You Will Be Successful:
Envision the Future Communicate Honestly and Broadly Seek Technology and Business “Firsts” Embrace Diversity and Take RisksWhy Work With Us:
Altair is a global technology company providing software and cloud solutions in the areas of product development, high performance computing (HPC) and data analytics. Altair enables organizations in nearly every industry to compete more effectively in a connected world, while creating a more sustainable future. With more than 3,000 engineers, scientists and creative thinkers in 25 countries, we help solve our customer’s toughest challenges and deliver unparalleled service, helping the innovators innovate, drive better decisions, and turn today’s problems into tomorrow’s opportunities.
For more than 30 years, we have been helping our customers integrate electronics and controls with mechanical design to expand product value, develop AI, simulation and data-driven digital twins to drive better decisions, and deliver advanced HPC and cloud solutions to support unlimited idea exploration.
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