Quality Assurance Engineer (Portugal)

⚡️ Why Altium?

Altium is transforming the way electronics are designed and built. From startups to world’s technology giants, our digital platforms give more power to PCB designers, supply chain, and manufacturing, letting them collaborate as never before.

• Constant innovation has created a transformative technology, unique in its space
• More than 30,000 companies and 100,000 electronics engineers worldwide use Altium
• We are growing, debt-free, and financially strong, with the resources to become #1 in the EDA industry

Why A365 Software Engineering?

Build the cloud platform that’s transforming electronics design. Altium 365 for cloud lets design engineers communicate, collaborate and bring their ideas to market more efficiently than any platform in the industry. These are some of the R&D Software Engineering contributions you might make to Altium 365:    

• Building new cloud-native applications and scalable infrastructure
• Utilising AI and ML to power advanced search capabilities
• Large-scale data processing; data modeling; holistic, intent-based API design
• Stateful and stateless servers, relational databases, ORM frameworks

Altium offers the opportunity to conceive and build new product features for electronics engineers, and add your own ideas to the world’s most collaborative and efficient electronics design platform.

About the role: 

Your primary role will be product development for complex cloud applications with the Altium 365 R&D team, handling technical challenges that are different from most others on the market, a mixture of complex engineering software, microelectronics, and cloud services.

 A day in the life of our QA Engineer: 

• Craft comprehensive test documentation: Become a master of writing clear and detailed test documentation, ensuring every Altium feature is thoroughly tested and functions as intended.
• Champion stability through rigorous testing: As a dedicated tester, you'll be on the front lines, meticulously testing new features to identify and prevent bugs before they reach users.
• Safeguard the user experience with comprehensive regression testing: Perform in-depth regression testing across a broad spectrum of Altium products. Your work will be instrumental in maintaining a stable and reliable user experience.

What We’re Looking For

• 4+ years of experience as a QA Engineer in testing complex software systems
• Experience in testing web applications
• Experience in writing comprehensive test plans and using test management tools (i.e. Testrail)
• Strong understanding of software testing methodologies, tools, and processes
• Experience testing software at the API level
• You’re detail-oriented with an ability to see the bigger picture
• You understand and have experience working with complex and evolved SDLC processes
• Performance testing tools knowledge (i.e. Jmeter)
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Understanding of CI systems (i.e. Jenkins, Github Actions, TeamCity)
• Excellent English communication skills, both verbal and written
  
  

Locations: Lisbon only

OUR BENEFITS:

• 🏥 Private medical insurance (Allianz) 
• 🧘 Mental Health Benefit (nilo.health) 
• 📚 Professional development sponsorship
• 🥗 Meal Allowance
• 🥳 Employee referral program 
• 🏡 Flexible working arrangements 
• 🥪 Free lunch, snacks, and drinks in the office

🌍 Also, we would like you to know

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

💡 Learn more about why a career at Altium is an opportunity like no other: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAYCOLpPLPE 

✈️ Altium Benefits: https://careers.altium.com/#s-benefits 

👏 Are you already an Altium employee? Please apply directly through our internal Greenhouse job board. If you have questions, please contact HR.