QA Automation Lead

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QA Automation Lead

Location: ITPL, Bangalore

About Applied

Applied Materials is the leader in materials engineering solutions used to produce virtually every new chip and advanced display in the world. Our expertise in modifying materials at atomic levels and on an industrial scale enables customers to transform possibilities into reality. At Applied Materials, our innovations make possible the technology shaping the future.

Applied Materials India SW RnD division (FIFA Genesis product) - responsible for Load/Unload wafers for all the next generation PDC products by ensuring the safety of wafers and maintaining TPT and accuracy.

The product combines both HW and SW technologies, while our division is focusing on the SW

We are looking for experienced Automation Team Leader engineer with passion to Automation, SW and semiconductor technology to lead FIFA SW Automation team!

Our Team

We are 80+ member team in SW organization and has more than 15 QA/AT engineers. We are responsible for quality and value for the SW versions released and to be released.

Roles and Responsibility

• Lead Automation processes, such as automation coverage and debuggability, automation value, automation KPIs and methodology across the OPWI organization.

• Develop automation strategy and scripts to support progression and regression testing based on the technical analysis, complexity, and reusability.

• Design, implement, and improve Automation and product features quality standards and KPIs

• Identify and promote long term Automation improvement opportunities for future roadmap.

• Co-work with QA team, other SW scrum teams, Automation infra team and delivery pipeline team

• Willingness to be take up both Manual Qual and AT based on teams need.

• Conduct AT Coverage milestones monthly

• Be part of and present status on quality and automation on Quarter Business Review

• Design and code E2E tests for Simulations / Setups.

• Recommend new tools, techniques and methodologies needed to enhance productivity and quality.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Overall 10+ yrs. of Exp

• At least 5 years of experience as Automation engineer hands on.

• At least 2-3 years of end to end Automation ownership

• Strong leadership, team player, coaching and mentoring skills.

• Strong knowledge of testing concepts, methodologies, and processes.

• Good knowledge in OOPS programming concepts and experience in programming languages like Java, Python, C#.

• Agile and DevOps methodologies, concepts, familiar with DevOps, Continuous Testing, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.         

• UI and/or API level test automation expertise.

• Knowledge in performance testing and load testing.

• Excellent problem-solving, analytical skills

• Experience working with Docker and Kubernetes

• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.

• Excellent English verbal and written communication skills

• Working with complex systems involving SW and HW – advantage.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electronics engineering, Computer Engineering or equivalent technical Degree; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Additional Qualifications:

• Semiconductor Domain experience

• Working knowledge of SW integrations and qualifications on Hardware products

Technologies we are using:

Programming Language: Java, Python, C++

Source Control: Git

Frameworks:

• Playwright – UI automation framework.

• TestNG – The “new” framework for automation tests. Tests are written in Java by automation engineers.

• Selenium - Used to run automation on Web applications. In Applied we are not using pure Selenium, but wrapped layer of selenium that was written at Applied)

• JSystem – Legacy (old framework), used to run automation on the Swing part of the application. Codeless automation tool when using existing BBs. New BBs need to be developed (in Java) by AT engineer.

Tools:

• Dockers

• Kubernetes

• Azure

• Jira + Xray – ALM tool

• Jenkins – The tool that we use for automating the CI/CD process.

• Aportal – In-house tool we use to monitor automation runs results. Enables to open bugs, watch logs, follow up on test run history, open bugs summary, etc.

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Applied Materials is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.