About the Role
We are looking for a QA Engineer to drive test automation, quality assurance, and reliability across our software, AI, and data-driven systems. Our platform consists of software applications, AI-powered features, and large-scale data pipelines, and we need someone who can ensure end-to-end product quality.
In this role, you will collaborate closely with Engineers from Data Science, Data Engineering and Software Engineering areas, as well as Product Managers, to define and implement effective testing strategies. T ogether with your QA colleagues, you will play a key role in ensuring the stability, scalability, and correctness of our products.
While test automation is the primary focus, some manual testing will still be required—particularly for exploratory testing, AI model evaluations, and complex system interactions. You will also contribute to a culture of quality by mentoring and sharing best practices with the team.
What You’ll Do
- Design, develop, and maintain test automation suits using Playwright and TypeScript.
- Support engineers in test automation in their domain and smoothly integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines following fail-fast approach.
- Collaborate with Data Engineers and Data Scientists to validate data integrity, AI model behavior, and data pipeline transformations.
- Partner with Product Managers and Engineering Managers to refine testing strategies for complex and evolving requirements.
- Utilize monitoring tools like Datadog to track system performance, identify anomalies, and ensure system stability.
- Conduct manual testing when necessary, focusing on edge cases, exploratory testing, and AI model behavior validation.
- Advocate for Shift-Left Testing, ensuring defects are caught early in the development cycle.
- Share knowledge and mentor team members on test automation strategies, best practices, and quality assurance methodologies.
- Continuously improve the efficiency and reliability of our test suites by eliminating flaky tests and optimizing execution speed.
What We’re Looking For
- 5+ years of experience in QA with a strong focus on test automation.
- Proficiency in TypeScript and hands-on experience with Playwright.
- Strong understanding of backend and frontend testing for complex software systems.
- Experience working with databases and data warehouses, for instance Databricks, Postgres, MongoDB.
- Experience with API testing, integration testing, and UI automation.
- Hands-on experience with monitoring tools like Datadog for detecting and analyzing system issues.
- Strong collaboration skills and ability to work across multiple teams.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with ability to work in ambiguous environments.
- Experience mentoring and sharing knowledge on automation and testing best practices.
Nice to Have
- Familiarity with data validation, AI/ML testing, and ensuring data pipeline accuracy.Experience with contract testing (e.g., Pact, WireMock) for API and data interactions.
- Exposure to performance testing and system monitoring.
- Prior experience working in a dedicated QA team in a high-growth tech environment.
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What We Do
Centric Software® is the innovator behind the #1 Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) platform, Centric PLM™, that is blazing the trail for brands, manufacturers and retailers across all segments of the consumer goods industry. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Centric Software has shattered the mold to create state-of-the-art digital solutions to satisfy the needs of every player in the market, large and small, and supports their mission to develop high-quality, sustainable products that are on time and on trend.
- Centric PLM delivers enterprise-class merchandise planning, product development, sourcing, quality and product portfolio optimization innovations specifically for fast-moving consumer industries. Centric PLM streamlines the product development process from concept to retail.
- Centric Planning provides best-in-class data and visually driven financial, merchandise and assortment planning as well as store and vendor forecasting to maximize margins and for seamless and fast, pre and in-season execution.
- Centric Visual Boards improves collaboration and decision-making of merchandising and buying teams through intuitive digital boards, driving innovation and decreasing time to market.
All Centric solutions are market-driven, ensuring they meet the needs of customers. These innovations include the first ever PLM mobile apps, 3D CAD connectors, sustainability integrations, and more. Centric Software has the highest user adoption rates in the industry and proudly maintains a 99% customer retention rate due to its seamless implementation methodology which ensures that 100% of its customers go live. Centric Software is proud to provide the best solution, backed by the best team to service the best customers.
Centric Software is a subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA). For more information, please visit www.centricsoftware.com.