Director - Quality Assurance
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Time Type: Full time
Job Description
Our world is transforming, and PTC is leading the way. Our software brings the physical and digital worlds together, enabling companies to improve operations, create better products, and empower people in all aspects of their business.
Our people make all the difference in our success. Today, we are a global team of nearly 7,000 and our main objective is to create opportunities for our team members to explore, learn, and grow – all while seeing their ideas come to life and celebrating the differences that make us who we are and the work we do possible.
The QA Lead Engineer is a hands-on quality expert focused on both manual and automated testing across multiple concurrent projects—including core products, plugins, and toolchains. This role provides technical guidance and support to QA engineers, helping ensure consistent testing practices and high-quality releases. The QA Lead is actively involved from the preparation and planning phase, through execution, and continues until the final release phase, ensuring quality is embedded throughout the development lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead manual and automated testing efforts across diverse projects
Provide technical guidance to QA engineers in test design, execution, and defect analysis
Perform root cause analysis and support bugfix validation
Triage defects and collaborate with developers to ensure timely resolution
Develop and maintain automated test frameworks integrated with CI/CD pipelines
Perform exploratory, regression, usability, and acceptance testing
Execute performance and scalability tests to validate system reliability under load
Contribute to QA activities across product, plugin, and toolchain testing tracks
Collaborate with development, product, and DevOps teams to ensure test coverage and release readiness
Participate in planning, execution, and release phases of each project
Deliver accurate time and effort estimates for assigned QA tasks
Track and report quality metrics, coverage, and defect trends
Required Qualifications:
Strong experience in manual and automated software testing
Proven ability to guide and support QA engineers technically
Expertise in automation tools (e.g., Playwright, Selenium, Cypress)
Skilled in scripting languages (e.g., Python, JavaScript, TypeScript)
Familiarity with performance testing tools (e.g., JMeter, k6)
Experience with CI/CD systems and version control (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Git)
Solid understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies
Strong analytical and communication skills
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with cloud platforms and containerized environments (e.g., AWS, Docker, Kubernetes)
ISTQB or equivalent certification
Familiarity with observability tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, New Relic)
Background in performance, scalability, or security testing
Life at PTC is about more than working with today’s most cutting-edge technologies to transform the physical world. It’s about showing up as you are and working alongside some of today’s most talented industry leaders to transform the world around you.
If you share our passion for problem-solving through innovation, you’ll likely become just as passionate about the PTC experience as we are. Are you ready to explore your next career move with us?
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