Principal Software Developer

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 looking for a talented and experienced Developer with Quality background to join our Enterprise Operations Platform (EOP) organization. In this role, you will be responsible for functional and nonfunctional testing (Performance and Automation testing) of cloud-native products deployed in hyperscalers and on-prem nodes. You will gather functional requirements, information, and data to proactively drive best practices from a quality perspective into the product while collaborating with our front-end and backend software developers and Product Management. As part of the EOP team, you will be a member of an Agile development team responsible for the delivery of next-generation industrial software solutions. These solutions will provide a software-defined, data-centric, flexible platform which enables automation for AspenTech’s diverse customer base. This role’s contributions have highly visible impacts on the success and scalability of our software offerings to our customers. Our organization and product are positioned in the market to grow at a rapid pace over the next decade with varied opportunities for career growth. Your Impact Actively participate with team members as part of a scaled Agile organization. Take high level strategic requirements and work with a team to refine them into actionable user stories with detailed acceptance criteria. Deliver a high-quality product by creating manual and automated tests including test environments, installations, upgrades and configuration in accordance with technical specifications. Develop and perform Unit, Integration, End to End and Performance testing within an iterative agile environment. Drive and shape the test automation strategy across API, UI, system, and integration layers, balancing hands-on contribution with technical leadership. Act as a technical authority for automated testing, guiding design decisions, best practices, and test architecture across teams. Maintain and execute performance scalability and stress testing. Contribute to a culture of accountability and collaboration across a variety of support, development, security, and product teams. Continually demonstrate adherence to security best practices and compliance requirements. Demonstrate effective communication skills as a participant in a variety of Agile ceremonies. What You'll Need A bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field. 8-12 years of experience in software development or in software testing. Language requirement: French: A1 (advanced). English level C1 (advanced), the position requires interactions with international clients Working experience with test automation, performance, databases, and test tools. Advanced knowledge of at least one modern operating system. You demonstrate strong proficiency in one or more programming or scripting languages. Practical, working experience with some of the following: Automated testing frameworks: Playwright. Databases: MongoDB, Postgres, MSSQL. Programming Languages: Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, C#, Python, Lua. JavaScript Frameworks: Angular, React. Continuous Integration: Azure DevOps Pipelines, GitHub Actions. Cloud: Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Helm, Terraform. Operating Systems: Windows, Linux. Observability and Monitoring: OpenTelemetry Identity and access management: OAuth 2.0, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) Data platforms and integrations: Inmation, Aveva PI Connect, Microsoft Fabric Strong understanding of cloud-native technologies, services, architecture, and container orchestration. Familiarity with concepts such as networks, databases, servers, communications, and information security. Experience with Agile development frameworks such as SAFe or Scrum. Strong personal project management skills; able to be self-directed and capable of working effectively in an environment with a high degree of change. Strong technical leadership skills with a willingness to coach and mentor team members. Strong object-oriented design and debugging skills. Willingness to contribute ideas and solutions while honoring and supporting the ideas of others. Passionate about finding creative solutions to problems, and pride in well-crafted code. 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. 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