Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer

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San Jose, CA, USA
In-Office
140K-210K Annually
Senior level
Hardware • Software • Semiconductor
The Role
Lead QA engineer responsible for designing and executing test strategies, building and maintaining automated test frameworks, validating hardware-software integrations, driving CI/CD testing, performing root-cause analysis, mentoring engineers, and ensuring system reliability, performance, and scalability across desktop, web, firmware, and distributed systems.
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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 experienceRequirements

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. For more information, please contact the Recruiter or click on this link Compensation & Benefits in the US.

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

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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Please note: This email address is solely intended to provide a method for applicants to initiate ASML’s process to request accommodation(s). Any recruitment questions should be directed to the designated Talent Acquisition member for the position.

Skills Required

  • Master degree or equivalent experience
  • Completed at least one product development cycle
  • 8+ years of experience in software quality assurance, test automation, or software validation using C#, .NET, and/or C++
  • 3+ years leading quality engineering initiatives, test architecture design, or automation strategy
  • Proficient in .NET technologies and programming with C# and/or C++
  • Hands-on experience testing WCF and WPF applications
  • Experience designing and implementing scalable automated test frameworks
  • Experience with test automation tools, defect tracking systems, and CI/CD platforms
  • Experience validating distributed systems, state machines, and parallel processing applications
  • Ability to design and execute unit, integration, system, regression, performance, and end-to-end validation testing
  • Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills across distributed and integrated systems
  • Ability to execute AI-enabled testing

ASML Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about ASML and has not been reviewed or approved by ASML.

  • Healthcare Strength Health coverage is broad and employer‑funded to a significant degree, with multiple plan options plus mental health and wellness resources. Complementary offerings like onsite/virtual care, HSA contributions, and a gym subsidy strengthen the overall medical package.
  • Parental & Family Support Family‑forming benefits include paid parental leave, adoption assistance, IVF coverage, and practical supports like lactation rooms and milk‑shipment for travel. These provisions indicate substantial caregiving support across life stages.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Paid time off can reach a high ceiling when combining vacation and company holidays, with accruals increasing by tenure. Flexible workplace policies and a vacation sell‑back option add usability to the time‑off program.

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The Company
HQ: Veldhoven
34,760 Employees
Year Founded: 1984

What We Do

ASML is a high-tech company, headquartered in the Netherlands. We manufacture the complex lithography machines that chipmakers use to produce integrated circuits, or computer chips. Over 30 years, we have grown from a small startup into a multinational company with over 60 locations across Europe, Asia and the US. Behind ASML’s innovations are engineers who think ahead. The people who work at our company include some of the most creative minds in physics, electrical engineering, mathematics, chemistry, mechatronics, optics, mechanical engineering, computer science and software engineering. Because ASML spends more than €2 billion per year on R&D, our teams have the freedom, support and resources to experiment, test and push the boundaries of technology. They work in close-knit, multidisciplinary teams, listening to and learning from each other.

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