Altium®

QA Engineer

Altium®  •  Shanghai, CN (Onsite)  •  2 months ago
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Job Description

⚡️ 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 Benefitshttps://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.

Altium®

About Altium®

Altium Limited, part of the Renesas Group, is a global leader in software and solutions for the electronics industry that is accelerating the pace of innovation. Altium is fundamentally shaping the digital transformation of electronics product development. Our solutions empower global organizations to connect people, tools, and processes across every stage. By combining deep domain expertise with a relentless focus on usability, security, and integration, Altium remains at the forefront, helping companies navigate the complexities of electronics product development.

Altium’s digital solutions maximize productivity by connecting all stakeholders throughout the electronics creation process, ensuring the industry can meet the growing demand for smart and connected products. Trends across the electronics industry demonstrate the need for minimizing power, reducing package size and energy consumption, and prioritizing high-speed design. To overcome these and all electronics product development challenges, more teams are turning to Altium.

Since 1985, Altium has been delivering software that maximizes the productivity of electronics designers and engineers. Altium is transforming the industry through Altium Designer®, the industry’s leading solution for electronics design; Altium 365®, the industry’s first cloud platform; and Octopart®, the most popular search platform for electronics parts. Altium’s next generation of innovations, Discover, Develop, and Lifecycle, will continue to enhance the electronics creation process. To learn more about Altium, visit www.altium.com.

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
1,001-5,000 employees
Headquarters
La Jolla, California
Year Founded
1985
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