Job Summary

Test Engineer

Responsibilities

- Understand the system and customer workflows end-to-end by analyzing product requirements, architecture, and real customer use cases; translate these into automation strategy and test coverage for web applications and web services.
- Participate early in the SDLC by reviewing functional/system requirements and designs to ensure testability, identify risks, and define measurable acceptance criteria aligned with user journeys and service/API contracts.
- Qualification of new and existing products and features (functional/requirements based, regression, performance, reliability). This includes designing and qualifying, publishing results and recommendations in the form of training material, best known methods Ability to understand and develop test cases in new technologies like Deep Learning, machine learnings etc.
- Ability to technically interact with Algorithms, System Engineering, Application Engineering, Marketing and Manufacturing, Customer Support team for various requirements across the globe. Interact with cross locational teams.
- Ability to assess automation feasibility of the test cases Script the test cases to automatically execute the tests Participate in all stages of software development including deployment/trouble shooting at customer sites.
- Represent SQE team in product life cycle and key program meetings.
- Travel to customer fabrication facilities to understand customer usecases, for deploying SW and troubleshooting
- Build and maintain a scalable test automation framework using Playwright (web UI automation) with solid engineering practices (reusable utilities,



page/component patterns, stable selectors, test data strategy, reporting).
- Automate critical user flows (smoke, regression, and high-risk business paths) by modeling realistic user behavior and validating the complete workflow across UI, backend services, and data stores.
- Develop automated validations for Web Services / APIs (service-level functional checks, contract validation, negative testing, error handling) and integrate them with UI flows for true end-to-end quality coverage.
- Apply AI-assisted automation practices to improve reliability and maintenance efficiency (e.g., smarter test generation, adaptive/self-healing approaches, and AI-enabled test execution where applicable) to reduce script fragility and speed up automation development.
- Measure and communicate automation coverage, ROI, quality trends, and release risk; continuously prioritize automation work based on defect trends and usage-critical paths.

Minimum Qualifications

- Must have Masters Level Degree in Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry or related fields.
- Must have excellent communication, analytical and interpersonal skill. Must also be self-driven, yet a strong team player
- Background in IC processing/Semiconductor equipment is a plus.
- Hands-on experience with automation tools is a plus
- Must be desiring to travel and enjoy working in other cultures.

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