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Job Description:
Broadcom Software
Senior Software Test Engineer
Vienna, Austria
Are you motivated by designing sophisticated solutions that solve complex problems with the most innovative technologists for large Fortune 500 customers? Do you enjoy working together in a team dedicated to developing and maintaining intelligent workload automation solutions? Do you want to create, teach, learn, and innovate with us as we explore the transformational effects of intelligent automation tools that provide workload automation for IT services across diverse platforms, applications, and operating systems?
If this sounds exciting, we want engineers like you to join our Agile Teams in the Automic Automation Engineering group. Join us and rethink how intelligent automation should look and feel in a modern software factory. Our teams value respect, trust, transparency, collaboration, teamwork, having fun, and giving back to the community. Diversity of thought and background makes us stronger, our products better, and our customers happier.
What you will accomplish
As a Software Test Engineer with a strong technical background, you will work closely with developers and other stakeholders to plan, design, and execute manual and automated test cases. You will be part of a cross-functional product scrum team developing new features and maintaining the software. Responsibilities will go beyond purely testing to include other aspects of Software Test Engineer, for example, CI/CD, process improvements, coaching, mentoring developers and other colleagues, and actively working to improve the status quo.
In this role, you can expect to:
Test Architecture & Framework Development – Design and implement scalable and maintainable test automation frameworks for API, system and integration testing.
Automated Testing Implementation – Develop, optimize, and maintain automated test scripts using tools like Selenium, Robot, as well as a framework that we have developed by our product for backend testing.
Continuous Integration & Deployment (CI/CD) Testing – Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., using Jenkins, GitHub) to ensure rapid and reliable software delivery.
Implement and execute performance tests on our bare metal server landscape to measure system scalability, latency, and throughput under load.
Debugging & Root Cause Analysis – Work closely with developers to analyze test failures, debug issues, and improve software quality using logging, monitoring, and tracing tools.
Contribute significantly to designs, delivering high-quality work that advances product stability, scale, and technology relevance to customers.
Build strong, collaborative relationships with Product Owners, Engineering, Documentation, Support, and field teams, who assist in product adoption.
Work in cadence with our mature agile teams, embracing a mindset of rapid learning, experimentation, iteration, and close collaboration.
Thrive in an environment that balances autonomy with teamwork, rewards divergent and convergent thinking, and values your participation in long-term and short-term product decisions.
Skills & experience
To qualify for this position, you must have:
Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of QA-related experience, Master’s degree with 3+ years of QA-related experience, or comparable professional experience. Relevant degree fields include Computer Science, Math, Statistics, etc., and certifications in software testing like ISTQB Foundation Level, Certified Agile Tester, etc.
Deep knowledge of Unix systems and troubleshooting
Understanding of CPU architecture differences
Experience with API testing (REST, SOAP) using tools like Postman, RestAssured, or SoapUI.
Proficiency in coding with C/C++, Java
Experience with scripting languages like Python and Bash to automate tests and streamline workflows.
Understanding relational databases and skills to write SQL queries for testing for MS SQL, DB2, Oracle, Postgres
Experience with test automation tools and frameworks (e.g., Selenium, JUnit, Robot) would be highly beneficial.
CI/CD Tools: Familiarity with continuous integration/continuous delivery tools like Jenkins
Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) or virtualization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
Experience with Docker containers, Kubernetes for orchestration, and how to deploy tests in a containerized environment.
Experience with version control systems, such as Git, for managing and coordinating test scripts.
Thorough understanding of QA Methodologies, life cycle, tools, and processes
Experience working in Agile Development Environments
To be successful, you will come to this role with solid testing skills and a collaborative mindset:
Enthusiastic and proactive about collaborating with Management, Product Managers, Engineers, UX Researchers, and other technology experts in the organization to understand needs and deliver great solutions.
Passionate about learning new technologies, new methods, and new skills.
Have a good understanding of agile teams, practices, and principles.
Hands-on with the ability to apply theoretical knowledge in practical scenarios
High attention to detail and precision in work
Strong sense of accountability and ownership of tasks
Ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams, especially in an Agile/Scrum environment.
Strong problem-solving skills to identify and diagnose issues quickly.
Quickly adapting to changing requirements and priorities in a fast-paced development environment.
Clear and concise written and verbal communication is needed to report test results effectively and collaborate with team members.
Ability to catch even the slightest inconsistencies or issues that could affect the quality of the software.
To stand out as the perfect person for this role, you may also have to:
Working experience in an agile product development environment and working with agile teams.
Profound experience in leading and defining test strategies
Experience with performance and/or security testing
Why would you love working at Broadcom?
Influence - We are a small team. You are empowered to help us succeed.
Location - Vienna, Austria. In the Heart of Europe - the world’s most livable city.
Pace - Sustainable and flexible work/life balance.
Career - Support for attending conferences, writing books, blogging, and speaking.
Camaraderie - We take walks, celebrate quarterly, and play games to give our brains a break.
Collaboration - Our team works closely using pairing, Scrum, and Kanban, enabling us to learn from everyone's experience.
Here are some reasons you want to build Software at Broadcom:
Growth – We deliver software using many different, leading-edge technologies that modernize a legacy software approach.
Diversity – We value diversity of thought, background, and experience on our teams. We believe it makes us, our software, and our experiences better.
Career Growth – We work in many code areas, with dynamic tools, and in an ever-changing environment. We encourage team rotations to explore other areas of code and focus.
Customers – We are doing work that matters to our customers.
Collaboration – We tackle problems together in an agile environment.
Sustainability – Both in how we work and how we live.
Broadcom Software Group - Agile Operations Division
Broadcom Software Group is one of the world’s leading enterprise software companies, modernizing, optimizing, and protecting the world’s most complex technology environments. With its engineering-centered culture, Broadcom Software is a global software leader building a comprehensive portfolio of industry-leading enterprise software enabling innovation, stability, scalability, and security for the largest global companies in the world.
In the Agile Operations Division, we offer business-critical software solutions that help the world’s leading companies transform their operating model to be more agile. Our ValueOps, DevOps, and AIOps solutions help these organizations drive innovation and achieve operational excellence to realize better business outcomes – and better experiences for their customers.
Our industry success is built on a decades-long track record of delivering transformational solutions to teams who plan, build, test, and operate mission-critical software for the world’s largest and most complex businesses. To do this, we respond quickly and thoughtfully, innovate in the context of customer needs, and collaborate inclusively with customers and internal partners. Our business will nurture your intellect and give you opportunities to expand your skills even further.
Broadcom is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We will consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability status, medical condition, pregnancy, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. We will also consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records consistent with local law.
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