Software QA Engineer

Applied Materials · Chennai

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Applied Materials Off Campus Drive 2026 is hiring a Software QA Engineer in Chennai under job ID R2624351, and the requisition is tagged New College Grad – meaning it is written for freshers, not experienced engineers filtered down to entry level. The Applied Materials Off Campus Drive 2026 posting is a quality assurance engineering role within the software organisation. You create and maintain test automation frameworks using Playwright and internal Applied Materials tools, build and maintain automated tests for the product, keep the test execution setup running and report results, and write and run manual test cases where automation does not fit. You also review product code to give insight on defects and root causes, design test plans and system tests, write software test documentation, and work with customer support to resolve issues customers actually reported. Worth calling out explicitly: the requisition asks you to use AI technologies such as MCPs, Copilot and Claude, and to create AI agents for automating workflows. That is unusually direct for a QA posting and tells you where the team is heading. If you have automated anything with an LLM – even a small script that generates or triages test cases – put it on your resume, because it maps straight onto what the Applied Materials Off Campus Drive 2026 team says it wants. Applied Materials has not published a percentage cutoff, batch year or degree restriction in the requisition beyond the New College Grad employee type. The skill signals listed on the posting are Computer Science, Python, automation, unit testing, architecture and agile. Practically that means a CS or IT graduate comfortable with Python, basic test automation and reading someone else’s code. The role is full time in Chennai, relocation eligible, with roughly 10 percent travel. Applied Materials frames the opportunity in three directions: exposure across different technologies and functional areas including utility development, functional integration, performance testing and quality assurance; horizontal growth across multiple products of varying scale and complexity; and vertical growth through software product architecture and delivery. For a first job, that combination of QA depth plus architecture exposure is a stronger foundation than most fresher roles offer, which is why the Applied Materials Off Campus Drive 2026 listing deserves a careful application rather than a mass one. Expect two to three rounds. A technical interview covering Python, data structures, SQL, and testing fundamentals – test case design, boundary conditions, what makes a test flaky and how you would fix it. Then a discussion on automation frameworks, ideally with you walking through something you built, followed by a managerial and HR round on the Chennai location, travel and working style. Offers for new college grad requisitions typically land two to four weeks after the final round. Keep these ready before applying to Applied Materials Off Campus Drive 2026: an updated resume – build one free with the Resume Builder – Class X and XII marksheets, all semester marksheets, your degree or provisional certificate, a government photo ID, a passport-size photograph, and a gap or backlog letter if either applies. The portal also offers resume matching, so upload a clean, parseable PDF. Do three things. Build one small Playwright or Selenium suite against any public website and be ready to explain your locators, waits and reporting – this is the single most useful hour you can spend. Run two timed mock rounds with the free aptitude practice tests here. And rehearse a 90-second self-introduction that names Python, one automation project and one bug you found that others missed. Apply online through the Applied Materials careers portal on job ID R2624351. New College Grad requisitions attract heavy volume and close as soon as the shortlist fills, so apply early. More live openings are on the companies hiring freshers hub. Applied Materials designs, builds and services the equipment used to manufacture semiconductor chips and advanced displays – the foundation layer beneath AI, IoT and nearly every device people use daily. Its India engineering centres in Chennai and Bengaluru work on software that runs on and around that equipment, which is the world an Applied Materials Off Campus Drive 2026 hire steps into.