QA/Test Engineer, DVT-QuestaSim

Siemens Digital Industries Software is a global technology powerhouse. With some of the best-known brands in the world, Siemens has stood for engineering excellence, innovation, quality, and reliability for more than 175 years.

We are looking for a QA Test Engineer to join our DVT team in, Cairo, Egypt.

Job Responsibilities:

• Mastering QuestaSim Digital Simulator with a good understanding about the underlying technology.
• Work with product engineering and development groups to get a clear vision on newly integrated features in the SIM Products across consecutive releases.
• Write, maintain and execute product test/quality plans that guarantee high functional coverage for the feature under test.
• Design new test cases which comply with the predefined test plans, test cases execution and summarizing test findings in the test summary reports.
• Participate in product unit testing, regression testing, license testing, installation testing and GUI testing throughout the release life cycle.
• Build test automation framework to eliminate manual testing rework and reduce testing turnaround time.
• Develop product build and regression test infrastructure.
• Understand customer usage profile for simulation based verification and help with the integration of customer designs in our test environments.
• Product benchmarking and performance measurements iterations to capture tool performance data between releases.
• Identify product quality attributes and define a process to help build up these attributes throughout the product development cycle
• Verifying final product conformance to the pre-specified quality exit criteria and being able to take yes-to-go decision for product releases.
• Defects reporting, defects validation and defect triaging to understand the root cause of the problem and define their criticality to RD groups.
• Apply code coverage techniques/tools to quantitatively judge product test coverage.
• Help in the deployment and monitoring of other qualification techniques like static code analysis (Lint), dynamic code analysis and memory leakage checks.

• B.Sc., M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering.
• Excellent knowledge about Digital/RTL design basics is required.
• Strong knowledge about Hardware Description Languages (Verilog, VHDL or System Verilog) is Required.
• Good Knowledge in UVM is a plus.
• Good Knowledge about assertion specification languages such as (PSL, SVA or OVL) is a plus.
• Scripting languages such as Linux Shell, Python, Perl is required.
• Experience with automation tools specifically designed for desktop applications like Squish, and Frameworks like QT is an advantage.
• Familiarity with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and web frameworks, as well as RESTful APIs for testing web applications is a plus.
• Knowledge about the quality assurance concepts and SW testing.
• Knowledge about testing strategies, test planning and testing automation frameworks.
• Knowledge about UI/UX, defect tracking systems, configuration management and code profiling tools is a plus.
• ISTQB Foundation Level certification is an advantage.
• Proficient in documenting test results, reporting bugs, and working collaboratively with developers and other stakeholders to improve software quality.
• Excellent Communication Skills, Self-Motivated Engineer with Good Capability for Continuous Learning.