Quality Assurance Engineer

Overview

As a QA Engineer in the Cambridge CAD/PLM engineering team, you will help ensure the quality and reliability of cloud-enabled SaaS platforms. You will work closely with full-stack, frontend, and DevOps teams to cover tests across UI, APIs, and data layers, shaping complex CAD/PLM workflows. Your work supports scalable backend services and modern web interfaces in a cloud-native environment, within an agile setting. This role offers impact by improving product quality early in development and collaborating across cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, execute, and maintain manual and automated tests for CAD/PLM web applications
• Validate frontend UI, backend services, APIs, and data layers
• Test complex CAD/PLM workflows (configuration, data integrity, performance, integration points)
• Contribute to and extend test automation frameworks (UI and API)
• Collaborate with engineers using TypeScript and Node.js (NestJS/Express)
• Test frontend applications built with Angular
• Validate backend logic with ORMs (TypeORM, Prisma) and SQL
• Support testing in cloud-native and containerized environments (Kubernetes)
• Participate in CI/CD pipelines and ensure tests run during builds/deployments
• Perform regression, integration, exploratory, and acceptance testing
• Engage in defect triage, root cause analysis, and quality improvement discussions

Key requirements

• Experience as a QA Engineer in a complex software environment
• Hands-on experience testing web-based SaaS platforms
• Strong experience with test automation (UI and/or API)
• Working knowledge of JavaScript / TypeScript
• Experience testing Node.js backend services (NestJS, Express)
• Familiarity with frontend frameworks, especially Angular
• Experience testing systems using ORMs (TypeORM, Prisma) and SQL databases
• Understanding of Agile / Scrum development methodologies
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills

• analytical thinking
• problem-solving
• communication
• test automation (UI and API)
• JavaScript/TypeScript
• Node.js (NestJS/Express)

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