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SW QA Engineer - Temporary for 6 months
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Role Description
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.
Responsibilities
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.
Get to know us better:
Nova (NASDAQ: NVMI) is a global company and a leading provider of innovative metrology solutions for process control in semiconductor manufacturing.
With a team of ~1200 people in three R&D centers and 27 field offices, we bring insights into the world’s most advanced industry. We leverage multiple technology fields such as physics, optics, chemistry, and algorithms to develop hardware and software solutions that measure almost every advanced computer chip built in the world.
Nova dives deep into dimensions and layers at the atomic level to extract unique insights and provide our customers with crucial decision-making data, managing critical challenges by providing unique, differentiated solutions.
Our outstanding people-focused and innovative culture means every person at Nova has the power to make an impact and significantly redefine what people can achieve through technology.
Join us if you are
A dreamer and brilliant high aimer who sees the impossible as the starting point and loves working in a multidisciplinary global team to create innovative breakthroughs.
If you need assistance due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected]

