Altium

QA Engineer

Shanghai, Shanghai, China Full Time
 
 
⚡️ Why Altium?

Altium is transforming the way electronics are designed and built. From startups to world’s technology giants, our digital platforms give more power to PCB designers, supply chain, and manufacturing, letting them collaborate as never before.

  • Constant innovation has created a transformative technology, unique in its space
  • More than 30,000 companies and 100,000 electronics engineers worldwide use Altium
  • We are growing, debt-free, and financially strong, with the resources to become #1 in the EDA industry

About the Role

We are developing a modern cloud-based engineering and collaboration platform used by global hardware and product development teams. As a QA Engineer, you will play a key role in ensuring the quality, stability, and performance of a large-scale, feature-rich system. You will collaborate closely with developers, product managers, and design teams to validate functionality, uncover issues early, and help deliver an exceptional user experience across complex engineering workflows.

 

A Day in the Life

- Create clear, thorough test documentation for new features to ensure they meet functional and quality expectations.

- Execute manual and automated tests to identify bugs, usability issues, or inconsistencies before release.

- Perform extensive regression testing across multiple modules of the engineering platform to maintain product stability.

- Collaborate with developers to reproduce issues, verify fixes, and improve overall quality processes.

- Participate in planning sessions to understand feature goals, risks, and test coverage needs.

- Analyze test results, produce detailed reports, and contribute to continuous improvement of QA workflows.

 

What We’re Looking For

- 4+ years of experience as a QA Engineer working on complex or large-scale software systems.

- Strong experience testing web applications and distributed SaaS systems.

- Ability to write comprehensive test plans and work with test management platforms (e.g., TestRail).

- Solid understanding of manual and automated testing methodologies, QA processes, and SDLC best practices.

- Hands-on experience testing at the API level.

- Familiarity with performance testing tools (e.g., JMeter).

- Knowledge of CI environments such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or TeamCity.

- Detail-oriented mindset with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

- Excellent communication skills in English, both written and verbal.

 

What We Offer

- Opportunity to work on impactful, real-world engineering and cloud collaboration products.

- A culture that values autonomy, continuous learning, and shared knowledge.

- Competitive benefits including health coverage, mental-wellbeing support, learning budget, and team activities.

🌍 Also, we would like you to know
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

💡 Learn more about why a career at Altium is an opportunity like no other: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAYCOLpPLPE 

✈️ Altium Benefits: https://careers.altium.com/#s-benefits 

👏 Are you already an Altium employee? Please apply directly through our internal Greenhouse job board. If you have questions, please contact HR.