The driving force behind our success has always been the people of AspenTech. What drives us, is our aspiration, our desire and ambition to keep pushing the envelope, overcoming any hurdle, challenging the status quo to continually find a better way. You will experience these qualities of passion, pride and aspiration in many ways — from a rich set of career development programs to support of community service projects to social events that foster fun and relationship building across our global community. The Role AspenTech is the world's leading supplier of asset optimization software solutions and operates from 62 locations worldwide. We are uniquely positioned to shape a sustainable future for capital-intensive industries. From our roots at MIT over 40 years ago to technological breakthroughs today that extend the reach of optimization, AspenTech has always been at the forefront of innovation. AspenTech Research & Development is a 1300–person team of industry-leading experts in the fields of performance engineering, subsurface science & engineering, manufacturing & supply chain, digital grid management and asset performance monitoring. On this team you will have the opportunity to turn creative ideas into reality, affecting products that are utilized by hundreds of thousands of users worldwide. As a Principal Software Quality Engineer in our AI R&D team, you will be expected to provide mentorship, solve complex technical challenges, and manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will play a key role in defining quality strategy and driving testing excellence across our AI-powered products and platforms. Your Impact Work closely with Software Development, Data Science, and Product Management teams to design, architect, and deliver next generation AI products, leveraging Generative AI, agentic systems, and machine learning technologies to create differentiated customer experiences and business value. Lead the strategy, architecture, and implementation of test automation frameworks across AI, API, UI, integration, and performance testing domains. Drive automation quality practices, ensuring comprehensive automated validation is integrated throughout the software development lifecycle. Define and track automation coverage, test effectiveness, and quality metrics to continuously improve release confidence and engineering productivity. Partner with development teams to embed automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and establish quality gates for AI powered products and platforms. Evaluate and adopt modern test automation technologies, including AI assisted testing tools, autonomous test generation, and intelligent regression testing approaches. Champion shift left testing practices and mentor software developers on automation design patterns, maintainability, and scalability. What You'll Need Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field. 8+ years of progressive designing, developing, and maintaining scalable test automation frameworks and automated testing solutions. Expert level proficiency in test automation technologies and programming languages commonly used for automation development (e.g., Python, Java, C#, JavaScript). Demonstrated experience implementing test automation across API, UI, integration, end-to-end, performance, and AI model validation scenarios. Strong knowledge of CI/CD practices, automated quality gates, and test execution orchestration within modern DevOps environments. Experience measuring and improving automation ROI, test coverage, reliability, and execution efficiency. Proven ability to lead automation strategy and drive adoption of quality engineering best practices across multiple teams. Experience with AI Application Testing, LLM Evaluation, or Agentic System Validation Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and debugging skills. Passion for finding creative solutions to problems and pride in delivering high quality software experiences. AspenTech is a global software leader helping industries meet the increasing demand for resources from a rapidly growing population in a profitable and sustainable manner. Our Digital Grid Management software suite, including AspenTech OSI products, helps power and utilities companies achieve superior real-time control, optimization and management for exceptional performance of complex energy networks. If you're looking to make a difference every day and push the limits of performance, AspenTech is doing things no one else thought was possible. As a leading industrial software partner, we help companies all over the world run safer, greener, longer and faster. With over 3700 employees and more than 60 global locations, AspenTech is meeting today's sustainability and business challenges head-on with unmatched expertise, cutting-edge AI-powered technology and a passion to innovate. AspenTech is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. AspenTech does not discriminate against employees or applicants on the basis of age, race, color, religion, creed, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy or related conditions, marital status, familial status, national origin, disability, medical condition, genetic information, citizenship, military service or protected Veteran Status or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. Reasonable Accommodation: We will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals who have a disability or sincere religious reasons to request accommodation, when necessary to enable the individual to participate in the job application or interview process. If you wish to request an accommodation, please contact us at recruiting@aspentech.com. GDPR Privacy Notice: AspenTech collects a range of personal information during the recruitment process. This may include the following personal or special categories of personal data: recruitment information such as your application form and resume, references, qualifications and membership of any professional bodies and details of any pre-employment assessments; your contact details and date of birth; your gender; your marital status and family details; your identification documents including passport and driver's license and information in relation to your immigration status and right to work with us; information about your contract of employment (or services) including start and end dates of employment, role and location, working hours, details of promotion, salary (including details of previous remuneration), pension, benefits, and holiday entitlement; your racial or ethnic origin; any criminal convictions and offences. AspenTech Security and Privacy Policy Plan Participants Enrolled in the AspenTech US Medical Plans: The Transparency in Coverage Final Rules require certain group health plans to disclose on a public website information regarding in-network provider rates and historical out-of-network allowed amounts and billed charges for covered items and services in two separate machine-readable files (MRF’s). The MRF’s for the benefit package options under AspenTech’s US Employee Benefit Plan are linked below: Transparency in Coverage Rule - Machine Readable Files Transparency In Coverage Rule And Consolidated Appropriations Act Overview and FAQS

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