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The role focuses on testing software integration, platform behavior, communication mechanisms, and timing-critical functionality across multiple software and hardware components.\nWorking in a multidisciplinary environment, you collaborate closely with software developers, system architects, test engineers, and integration teams to ensure new functionality is delivered with the required quality level. Special attention is given to validating platform performance, I/O behavior, synchronization mechanisms, and data integrity across complex system configurations.\nRole and responsibilities\nAs a software test engineer, you are, together with your team, responsible for verifying and improving the quality of a shared software platform used across multiple products, software releases, and hardware generations.\nWithin ASML, the sector Development & Engineering is responsible for the specification, design, integration, qualification, and sustaining of all ASML products..\nIn this role, you will:\nDesign, implement and maintain automated integration and regression tests\nDefine test scenarios and test cases for platform functionality, communication flows, and system integration\nVerify platform timing characteristics, I/O delays, synchronization mechanisms, and data integrity requirements\nDevelop and maintain test tooling, simulators, and automated test environments\nExecute test campaigns and analyzing test results to assess product quality and release readiness\nInvestigate software defects and test failures, supporting root-cause analysis together with development teams\nContribute to continuous integration and automated qualification pipelines.\nIdentify test coverage gaps and proposing improvements to increase product quality\nReport test progress, quality metrics, and risks to stakeholders.\nCollaborate with software developers, architects, and integration engineers to ensure requirements are testable and adequately verified\nEducation and experience\nBachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, software engineering, electrical engineering, embedded systems, or a related technical field\n3+ years of experience in software testing, software development, or system integration. 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