As a software test engineer, you are responsible for validating the quality, reliability, and performance of a distributed software platform that forms the foundation of advanced real-time control systems. The role focuses on testing software integration, platform behavior, communication mechanisms, and timing-critical functionality across multiple software and hardware components.
Working in a multidisciplinary environment, you collaborate closely with software developers, system architects, test engineers, and integration teams to ensure new functionality is delivered with the required quality level. Special attention is given to validating platform performance, I/O behavior, synchronization mechanisms, and data integrity across complex system configurations.
Role and responsibilities
As a software test engineer, you are, together with your team, responsible for verifying and improving the quality of a shared software platform used across multiple products, software releases, and hardware generations.
Within ASML, the sector Development & Engineering is responsible for the specification, design, integration, qualification, and sustaining of all ASML products..
In this role, you will:
- Design, implement and maintain automated integration and regression tests
- Define test scenarios and test cases for platform functionality, communication flows, and system integration
- Verify platform timing characteristics, I/O delays, synchronization mechanisms, and data integrity requirements
- Develop and maintain test tooling, simulators, and automated test environments
- Execute test campaigns and analyzing test results to assess product quality and release readiness
- Investigate software defects and test failures, supporting root-cause analysis together with development teams
- Contribute to continuous integration and automated qualification pipelines.
- Identify test coverage gaps and proposing improvements to increase product quality
- Report test progress, quality metrics, and risks to stakeholders.
- Collaborate with software developers, architects, and integration engineers to ensure requirements are testable and adequately verified
Education and experience
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, software engineering, electrical engineering, embedded systems, or a related technical field
- 3+ years of experience in software testing, software development, or system integration. ISTQB Foundation or T-Map Certificate is considered a plus
- Experience with automated testing in complex software systems
- Experience with Python and/or C++
- Experience working in Linux-based development environments
- Experience analyzing software defects and performing root-cause investigations
- Familiarity with integration testing, regression testing, and test automation frameworks
- Experience with continuous integration and automated test pipelines is considered a plus
- Experience with distributed, embedded, or real-time systems is considered a plus
Skills
- Test automation and scripting (Python preferred), experience with Robot framework
- Software integration and regression testing
- Root-cause analysis and debugging
- Linux-based development and test environments
- Understanding of distributed and real-time software systems
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
This position requires access to controlled technology, as defined in the United States Export Administration Regulations (15 C.F.R. § 730, et seq.). Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to access such controlled technology prior to beginning work. Business demands may require ASML to proceed with candidates who are immediately eligible to access controlled technology.
Inclusion and diversityASML 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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Skills Required
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, software engineering, electrical engineering, embedded systems, or a related technical field
- 3+ years of experience in software testing, software development, or system integration
- Experience with automated testing in complex software systems
- Experience with Python and/or C++
- Experience working in Linux-based development environments
- Experience analyzing software defects and performing root-cause investigations
- Familiarity with integration testing, regression testing, and test automation frameworks
- Experience with continuous integration and automated test pipelines
- Experience with distributed, embedded, or real-time systems
- ISTQB Foundation or T-Map Certificate
- Experience with Robot Framework
- Legal authorization to access controlled technology under United States Export Administration Regulations
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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
