Senior SQA Engineer Job in San Jose - CA, United States

ASML is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of chip-making equipment.

Our vision is to enable affordable microelectronics that improve the quality of life. To achieve this, our mission is to invent, develop, manufacture and service advanced technology for high-tech lithography, metrology and software solutions for the semiconductor industry.

ASML's guiding principle is continuing Moore's Law towards ever smaller, cheaper, more powerful and energy-efficient semiconductors. This results in increasingly powerful and capable electronics that enable the world to progress within a multitude of fields, including healthcare, technology, communications, energy, mobility, and entertainment.

Working at ASML
We provide the world’s top chipmakers everything they need to create better performing, cheaper semiconductor chips. Simply put: we are an industry leader supporting industry leaders.

As such, you’ll be encouraged to bring your best ideas and act on them. You’ll have the freedom, trust, and support in your field to experiment and solve complex challenges. Things are rarely dull when you’re constantly breaking new ground.

But despite our fast-paced environment at the forefront of tech, we take your work-life balance and wellbeing seriously. A business is only as good as its employees.

So join us, and you’ll be a part of a global collaboration. One that promotes creativity, the inclusion of highly diverse teams, and an exciting and dynamic work environment. Join us, and you’ll be a part of progress.

Senior SQA Engineer Job Description

IntroductionASML brings together the most creative minds in science and technology to develop lithography machines that are key to producing faster, cheaper, more energy-efficient microchips. We design, develop, integrate, market and service these advanced machines, which enable our customers - the world’s leading chipmakers - to reduce the size and increase the functionality of their microchips, which in turn leads to smaller, more powerful consumer electronics. Our main headquarters are located in Veldhoven, the Netherlands, and we also have 18 office locations around the United States- including main offices in Wilton, CT, Chandler, AZ, San Jose, CA and San Diego, CA..We are proud of bringing together the brightest minds all over the world to tackle the most challenging problems in making faster and smaller chips. As part of our team, you will have the opportunity to go beyond yourself in developing more advanced techniques and push the technology boundaries.ASML San Jose, CA is an industry leader in computational lithography for integrated circuits. Our Tachyon platform enables capabilities that address chip design, photomask making and wafer printing for semiconductor manufacturing and the LithoTuner platform enables lithography optimization for ASML’s leading photo lithography tools, known as ‘scanners’. Job MissionWe are looking for a highly talented individual to join our software quality assurance team. In this position, you will be responsible for developing and executing exploratory and automated tests to ensure high quality of world-class product. You will be challenged with high skill QA testing methodologies in concurrent computing software architecture environment. You will have the opportunity to work with software developers, hardware engineers and the application engineering organization on a regular basis.
The QA technician role plays an important part in our company’s product development process. Our ideal candidate will be responsible for conducting tests before product launches to ensure software runs smoothly and meets client needs, while being cost-effective.
Ultimately, you should monitor all stages of software development to identify and resolve malfunctions to meet quality standards. ​Job Description- Review requirements, specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback. 
- Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases. 
- Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities. 
- Design, develop and execute automation scripts. 
- Identify, record, document thoroughly and track bugs. 
- Perform thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved. 
- Develop and apply testing processes for new and existing products to meet client needs
- Liaise with internal teams (e.g. developers and product managers) to identify system requirements. 
- Monitor debugging process results. 
- Investigate the causes of non-conforming software and train users to implement solutions. 
- Track quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and open defect counts. 
- Stay up-to-date with new testing tools and test strategies.  EducationAdvanced degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics,
Applied Mathematics, Physics, Applied Physics, or any related engineering, or equivalent experience. ​Experience- Very strong understanding of software lifecycle. 
- Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes. 
- Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases. 
- Hands-on experience with both white box and black box testing. 
- Hands-on experience with automated testing tools. 
- Hands-on working experience in Unix and Windows. 
- Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting in python and shell. 
- Good numerical analysis and logic thinking skills. 
- Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process is a plus. 
- Experience with performance and/or security testing is a plus. 
- Knowledge on optics or microlithography is definitely a good plus. ​Context of the positionThis position primarily works in an office environment. It requires frequent sitting, standing and walking. Daily use of a computer is required. May stand for extended periods when facilitating meetings.
The physical demands of the position described herein are essential functions of the job and employees must be able to successfully perform these tasks for extended periods. Reasonable accommodations may be made for those individuals with real or perceived disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job described. Other informationEEO/AA (W/M/Vets/Disability) Employer.
 

Senior SQA Engineer Job Requirements

Advanced degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics,
Applied Mathematics, Physics, Applied Physics, or any related engineering, or equivalent experience. 

- Very strong understanding of software lifecycle. 
- Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes. 
- Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases. 
- Hands-on experience with both white box and black box testing. 
- Hands-on experience with automated testing tools. 
- Hands-on working experience in Unix and Windows. 
- Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting in python and shell. 
- Good numerical analysis and logic thinking skills. 
- Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process is a plus. 
- Experience with performance and/or security testing is a plus. 
- Knowledge on optics or microlithography is definitely a good plus. 



This position primarily works in an office environment. It requires frequent sitting, standing and walking. Daily use of a computer is required. May stand for extended periods when facilitating meetings.
The physical demands of the position described herein are essential functions of the job and employees must be able to successfully perform these tasks for extended periods. Reasonable accommodations may be made for those individuals with real or perceived disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job described.

Senior SQA Engineer Application Information

EEO/AA (W/M/Vets/Disability) Employer.
 

Senior SQA Engineer Summary

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