SQA Engineer - fixed term

Description

The role sits in Brno, where the company builds high-tech electron microscopes and spectrometers. Some of these instruments support SARS-CoV-2 research and help make phone components smaller. The site is the largest producer of electron microscopes in the world and has more than 70 years of history. Staff include specialists in physics, electronics, software, mechanical engineering and logistics.

The Sample Prep and Analysis group builds and maintains software that automates Scanning Electron Microscopes. Semiconductor customers use it to find manufacturing defects, speed up research and improve the reliability, performance and energy efficiency of new chips.

The company is hiring a Software Quality Assurance Engineer to raise the quality of software across its product range. You will work with software engineers, product owners, system architects and domain experts to meet demanding standards for reliability, performance and usability. The software controls scientific instruments to nanometer precision inside an international R&D setting, and it supports the making of advanced chips and memory.

Tech stack: C,.NET Standard and Python, for Windows applications. Regression tests run in Robot Framework, GitLab handles DevOps, Jira tracks bugs, OpenCV covers image processing and AI, and Elastic stack, Docker and Kubernetes are also in use.

Responsibilities

• Take part in every phase of the product development cycle as an SQA engineer.
• Help the agile team collaborate and solve problems so it can ship high-quality, innovative software on schedule.
• Build and keep up relationships with vendors and joint development partners who speed up the team's work.
• Protect software quality, the development processes and how they are applied across the organisation.
• Design and run test strategies, and build and maintain automated tests.
• Confirm that product features work as specified and that bug fixes work.
• Keep test scenario documentation up to date.
• Write SQA recommendation reports.
• Spot risks during test execution and help reduce them.
• Find chances to improve testing processes and product quality.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree or higher in a related field.
• At least 3 years of agile software development experience.
• Experience with software development processes.
• Python expertise.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to use data and metrics to find problems and drive continuous improvement.
• A focus on quality and robustness.
• Willingness and ability to work in an international, multidisciplinary R&D team.
• Motivation to keep learning and widen your knowledge.
• A love of science.
• Interest in learning to work with high-end hardware equipment.
• Experience testing APIs, including RESTful services with tools such as Swagger or OpenAPI.
• A solid grasp of web application testing principles, covering functional, regression and exploratory testing.
• Practical experience with at least one web automation framework or test driver, such as Playwright, Selenium or Cypress.

Conditions

Standard working hours, Monday to Friday.

Work is on site in the office.

This is a fixed-term position.

Equal opportunity policy applies.

Benefits

• Flexible working schedule.
• A hackerspace with a VR headset, a recording studio for video, music or podcasts, Lego Mindstorms, a 3D printer, Arduino and more.
• Work at an established international high-tech company.
• A notebook and two monitors as standard, with further office equipment chosen to suit you.
• A meal allowance and a company canteen with free fruit and vegetables.
• A modern workplace with relax zones, a gym, an outdoor playground and in-building massages.
• An open, friendly culture with a company rock band and various sports teams.