SW QA Engineer - Temporary for 6 months

Nova SW group seeks a QA Engineer who will become an active member of the Agile team.

In this role, you will be responsible for manual QA for Nova products that involve Servers, Automation background – advantage.

What you will be doing

• Become an active member of the Agile team as a QA Engineer.
• Take part in all stages of software development and release, including conducting beta tests at customers’ sites abroad.
• Develop deep QA expertise in Nova’s systems to identify risks in software development.
• Define and plan the overall testing strategy for Nova’s software.
• Create and maintain both high-level and detailed test plans.
• Perform tests that validate software qualification.
• Define and maintain regression test suites.
• Plan and execute beta testing activities at customer sites.
• Investigate failures and define corrective actions.

Requirements

• QA course certification – Must.
• Academic degree in Engineering or Exact Sciences (B.Sc.) – Advantage.
• 3+ years of experience as a manual QA Engineer and composing test plans - Must.
• Experience with client–server architecture - Must.
• Experience with bug tracking systems such as Jira, Azure DevOps, TFS, and similar tools - Must.
• Experience to plan and execute functional, regression, sanity, and acceptance testing – Must.
• Experience with big data system testing – Advantage.
• Experience in testing multidisciplinary systems (complex SW & HW systems) – preferred in the semiconductor industry – Advantage.
• Experience with basic APIs – Advantage.
• Knowledge in writing and reading basic SQL (simple SELECT / JOIN) – Must.
• Familiarity with test management systems such as TestRail, ADO Test Plans, Xray, etc. – Must.
• Understanding of VM environments, servers, networking, and log analysis – Must.
• Ability to work with Postman, Swagger, or any basic API testing tool – Advantage.
• MS-SQL, PostgreSQL, Linux, Cloudera, Micro-Services, Kubernetes – Advantage.
• Analyze automation report – Advantage.

That special something you bring in:

• A strong team player with excellent interpersonal skills, able to collaborate effectively, work independently, and maintain a positive attitude under demanding timelines.
• Technically oriented and self-reliant, with strong troubleshooting and self-learning abilities; knowledge in ML or the semiconductor industry is an advantage.
• Efficient and proactive, with strong time-management and problem-solving skills, able to prioritize tasks and perform well under pressure.