esponsibilities:

The selected Software QA Engineer will join a world-class software team to architect, implement, and scale test automation solutions that drive quality across KLA products. They will be a technically strong individual contributor and leader, responsible for building AI-augmented automation frameworks that ensure the reliability of all released products. They will champion modern testing practices with a sharp focus on automation coverage, infrastructure excellence, and continuous improvement of the qualification process. They must be able to partner with cross-functional teams globally to resolve quality issues quickly.

Key Responsibilities Include:

- Identify, evaluate, and implement test automation frameworks and tools that deliver measurable value across the qualification lifecycle including functional, regression, performance, and reliability testing.
- Own and drive automated test coverage for both UI and API layers across KLA products, designing robust test suites and publishing results, recommendations, and best known methods.
- Integrate AI capabilities into the test automation framework — including self-healing locators, intelligent test generation, and autonomous test execution — to improve test resilience and reduce maintenance overhead.
- Leverage deep knowledge of software systems and application architecture to design scalable infrastructure solutions that empower the test automation team.
- Assess automation feasibility of test cases and script them for automatic execution across current and existing product features.




- Technically interact with Algorithms, System Engineering, Application Engineering, Marketing and Manufacturing, and Customer Support teams across global locations for various requirements.
- Participate in all stages of software development including deployment and troubleshooting at customer sites. Represent the SQE team in product lifecycle and key program meetings.
- Travel to customer fabrication facilities to understand customer use cases, deploy software, and troubleshoot.

KLA Corporation, a leading provider of process control and yield management solutions, partners with customers around the world to develop state-of-the-art inspection and metrology technologies. These technologies serve the semiconductor, data storage, LED, and other related nanoelectronics industries. With a portfolio of industry-standard products and a team of world-class engineers and scientists, the company has created superior solutions for its customers for 50 years. Headquartered in Milpitas, California., KLA has dedicated customer operations and service centers around the world. Additional information may be found at www.kla.com

Software Quality Engineering (SQE) is a functional organization in KLA’s Central engineering group which serves all wafer inspection products in qualifying the products and qualifying to release the differentiated products to help our customers.
SQE is seeking Product qualification engineers in our Chennai, India campus to enhance our Quality team.

📌 Automation Test Engineer (Tamil Nadu)
🏢 KLA
📍 Tamil Nadu