Associate Software Engineer

At ABB, we help industries run leaner and cleaner-and every person here makes that happen. You'll be empowered to lead, supported to grow, and proud of the impact we create together. Join us and help run what runs the world.

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What we believe in

ABB's Process Automation business area enables customers to operate some of the world's largest and most complex industrial infrastructures, helping them outrun - leaner and cleaner.

We offer a broad range of automation, electrification and digital solutions for process, hybrid and maritime industries, including industry-specific integrated control and software as well as measurement and analytics solutions and services.

Your role and responsibilities

In this role, we are looking for software quality professionals to join our Industrial Automation Digital Organization. The role requires a strong quality engineering professional with extensive experience in functional, integration, system, and regression testing for enterprise-grade products. The candidate will be responsible for driving end-to-end validation across UI, APIs, services, data pipelines, configurations, and user journeys, while ensuring release readiness and quality confidence.

The role also requires strong hands-on experience in UI, API, and service-level test automation, along with the ability to define test strategies, drive automation coverage, manage defects, and support CI/CD-based validation processes.

The work model for the role is: Hybrid

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Define test strategy, validation scope, and risk-based approach for features, integrations, and releases by reviewing requirements, acceptance criteria, and technical changes.
• Lead end-to-end validation across UI, APIs, services, data pipelines, configurations, and user journeys, ensuring release readiness and quality confidence.
• Drive automation coverage for critical workflows and regression, while collaborating with engineering teams to enforce quality gates and support compatibility, upgrade, and environment-based testing.
• Own defect triage, risk assessment, validation tracking, and release sign-off inputs, while mentoring junior QEs and contributing to process improvements, reusable assets, and quality governance.

Qualifications for the role:

• 8-12 years of experience in software quality engineering with strong expertise in functional, integration, system, and regression testing for enterprise-grade products.
• Proven hands-on experience in UI, API, and service-level test automation, along with strong knowledge of automation frameworks and modern QE practices.
• Solid understanding of release validation, risk-based testing, quality reporting, and end-to-end quality ownership across delivery lifecycles.
• Strong grasp of architecture-level workflows involving applications, services, APIs, databases, and integrations, with experience in API and database validation.
• Extensive experience in test strategy, test planning, defect management, triage, and CI/CD-based validation processes.
• Ability to lead quality discussions and collaborate effectively with developers, architects, product managers, and release stakeholders, supported by strong communication skills.
• BE/BTech/ME/MTech in relevant fields with preferred domain exposure such as industrial platforms, IIoT, data/analytics, manufacturing, energy, etc.. Familiarity with tools and practices such as Azure DevOps, Playwright, Python automation, observability, and performance-aware testing.

More about us

ABB is a leading global technology company that energizes the transformation of society and industry to achieve a more productive, sustainable future. The Process Automation (PA) business area ( $6B revenue in 2021, 22,000 employees), automates, electrifies and digitalizes some of the most complex industrial infrastructures on this planet. Through its five divisions, it serves customers in the energy, process and hybrid industries - from hydrocarbons, chemicals, water, mining, minerals, pulp & paper to marine and ports, and many more. PA stands at the heart of some of the most important shifts in society, helping the energy-intense industries to safer, smarter and more sustainable operations to enable a prosperous, low-carbon society.

Building a cleaner, smarter future takes all kinds of minds: the curious, the courageous, and the creative. We welcome people from all backgrounds and experiences.

Ready to make an impact Apply today or visit www.abb.com to learn more about the impact of our solutions across the globe.

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