The Role
Develop and execute risk-based quality strategies for industrial manufacturing and supply-chain software. Design automated API, integration, system, regression, and UI tests; perform functional, performance, security, reliability, and compatibility testing; investigate defects and root causes; improve automation frameworks, CI/CD quality gates, test environments, and reporting. Collaborate with product, development, architecture, and Agile teams throughout delivery, contribute to planning and release readiness, and mentor quality engineers and developers.
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The RoleWe are looking for a Senior Software Quality Engineer to join our Manufacturing and Supply Chain (MSC) Engineering organization. As a senior member of a cross-functional Agile team, you will define and execute risk-based quality strategies for industrial software supporting planning, scheduling, optimization, production, and supply chain workflows. You will collaborate with Product Owners, Agile Team Leads, developers, Quality Engineering peers, and Architecture to build quality into every stage of delivery, expand effective automation, and help the team achieve reliable PI objectives.Your Impact- Analyze features, customer workflows, user stories, acceptance criteria, architecture, and technical risks to define an appropriate test strategy and coverage.
- Design, develop, maintain, and execute automated tests across the appropriate layers, including API, integration, system, regression, and user-interface testing.
- Plan and perform exploratory, functional, integration, regression, performance, reliability, security, upgrade, smoke, and compatibility testing as appropriate to product risk.
- Collaborate early with Product Owners and developers to improve testability, clarify acceptance criteria, and prevent defects before implementation.
- Own quality activities for complex features from refinement through validation, release readiness, and post-release learning.
- Investigate failures, isolate root causes, communicate product risk, and partner with developers to resolve defects and prevent recurrence.
- Contribute quality estimates, dependencies, risks, and objectives during PI Planning, backlog refinement, iteration planning, system demos, and Inspect and Adapt.
- Improve automation frameworks, test data, environments, CI/CD quality gates, reporting, and traceability to increase feedback speed and confidence.
- Mentor quality engineers and developers in testing practices, share domain knowledge, and promote consistent quality patterns across the team.
- Use customer and product knowledge to identify realistic scenarios and continuously improve the team's quality strategy.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Petroleum Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Typically 5+ years of professional software quality engineering or software testing experience for enterprise, scientific, engineering, or industrial software.
- Strong experience designing test strategies and building maintainable automated tests using one or more programming or scripting languages.
- Experience testing APIs, services, databases, desktop or web applications, and integrations across a modern software stack.
- Working knowledge of source control, defect management, CI/CD, test environments, test data, and software development lifecycle practices.
- Demonstrated ability to assess risk, diagnose complex failures, communicate quality status, and drive issues to resolution.
- Experience collaborating across Product, Development, Quality Engineering, and Architecture roles in Agile delivery.
- Strong interpersonal, analytical, technical writing, and presentation skills in English.
Preferred Qualifications/Requirements:
- Experience with Manufacturing and Supply Chain, planning and scheduling, refinery or petrochemical workflows, mathematical modeling, or optimization.
- Experience with C#/.NET, C++, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, REST APIs, SQL, or comparable technologies.
- Experience with test automation frameworks, performance testing, security testing, cloud technologies, containers, telemetry, or observability.
- Experience on Root Cause Analysis identification and troubleshooting on critical development stages
- Exposure to SAFe or another scaled Agile framework and experience mentoring engineers or leading quality activities for complex features.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Petroleum Engineering, Mathematics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Typically 5+ years of professional software quality engineering or software testing experience
- Experience with enterprise, scientific, engineering, or industrial software
- Experience designing test strategies and building maintainable automated tests using programming or scripting languages
- Experience testing APIs, services, databases, desktop or web applications, and integrations
- Working knowledge of source control, defect management, CI/CD, test environments, test data, and software development lifecycle practices
- Ability to assess risk, diagnose complex failures, communicate quality status, and drive issues to resolution
- Experience collaborating across Product, Development, Quality Engineering, and Architecture roles in Agile delivery
- Strong interpersonal, analytical, technical writing, and presentation skills in English
- Experience with Manufacturing and Supply Chain, planning and scheduling, refinery or petrochemical workflows, mathematical modeling, or optimization
- Experience with C#/.NET, C++, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, REST APIs, SQL, or comparable technologies
- Experience with test automation frameworks, performance testing, security testing, cloud technologies, containers, telemetry, or observability
- Root cause analysis and troubleshooting experience during critical development stages
- Exposure to SAFe or another scaled Agile framework
- Experience mentoring engineers or leading quality activities for complex features
Aspen Technology Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Aspen Technology and has not been reviewed or approved by Aspen Technology.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as strong, with comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans and high-quality carrier options. Several recent remarks characterize the health insurance as "great" or "amazing," with low copays noted in some cases.
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Parental & Family Support — Maternity and paternity leave receive consistently positive mentions and are characterized as well-reviewed. Company materials also highlight family-oriented benefits alongside core coverage.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — The package includes vacation/PTO, paid holidays, and sick leave, with multiple indications of generous paid time off. Dedicated volunteer hours and well-regarded leave policies reinforce breadth in time-away benefits.
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The Company
What We Do
AspenTech is a global leader in asset optimization software helping the world’s leading industrial companies run their operations more safely, efficiently and reliably – enabling innovation while reducing waste and impact on the environment. AspenTech software accelerates and maximizes value gained from digital transformation initiatives with a holistic approach to the asset lifecycle and supply chain. By introducing effective AI modeling to traditional principles of process engineering, AspenTech delivers a faster and more accurate analysis of efficiency and performance boundaries. The real-time data and actionable insights delivered by our software help customers push the boundaries of what’s possible.
