Associate Project Engineer MMS

Hitachi Energy; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 800,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Energy in Bengaluru is seeking a skilled software tester to ensure high-quality software deliveries within the Market Management Quality Assurance team. You will engage in planning, designing, and executing test cases while working closely with engineers to manage data processing requirements. Candidates should hold an MTech/ME or PhD in Electrical Engineering and possess experience in software development.

The ideal applicant will have strong knowledge in SQL, functional testing frameworks, and be a critical thinker capable of operating independently in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• MTech in Electrical/Power Systems Engineering or PhD required.
• Experience in quality assurance in a large software organization.
• Experience with SQL and relational databases.
• Familiarity with data formats like JSON, CSV, and XML.

Responsibilities

• Plan testing and data creation activities for quality deliveries.
• Design functional and non-functional test cases.
• Collaborate with experts to process and validate testing data.
• Provide testing progress reports and recommend improvements.

Skills

Software Development

Data Management

Test Automation

Quality Assurance

SQL

C programming

Java

Python

Education

MTech/ME Degree in Electrical / Power Systems Engineering or PhD in Electrical

Tools

JUnit

Selenium

TestNG

ETL Tools

Job description

Overview

The Hitachi Energy Indian Operations Center (INOPC) is a competence center with around 2600+ skilled engineers who focus on tendering, engineering, planning, procurement, project management, functional system testing, installation supervision, documentation and commissioning. Over the last decade it has evolved to become the largest operations hub. The India Operations Centre team at Chennai, Bangalore, and Gurugram supports Hitachi Energy’s units in more than 40 countries across all four business units. To date, the team has executed engineering and commissioning for projects in more than 80 countries. As part of the Market Management Quality Assurance team, you will focus on the continuous improvement and validation of a wide range of software in areas such as data management, data integration, network modeling, network analysis, network security, operation optimization, and real‑time operation control.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Use business requirements, solution designs and functional specifications to plan the testing and data creation activities required to ensure high quality deliveries to customer projects.
• Design and develop the functional and non‑functional use cases and test cases required to verify that business objectives and functional requirements are satisfied according to the test plan.
• Work closely with engineering to specify the format, volume and tools needed to collect and process the data required for testing.
• Collaborate with subject matter experts to obtain, prepare, process, validate and complete the data required for testing.
• Provide data to support developer unit test and use unit test results to improve the test cases, test data and test steps required to execute quality assurance testing.
• Implement reusable test automation, data and function validation tools.
• Execute functional and non‑functional tests as part of smoke test, integration test, factory acceptance test, performance tests, issue resolution and regression tests, and track and correct data and test steps as required to ensure test coverage.
• Provide testing progress and status reports to engineering team.
• Identify, track and investigate issues found during testing, collaborate with developers to replicate, fix and verify corrections and provide testing verification progress reports.
• Analyze test results and recommend improvements and corrective actions required to ensure adherence to a high‑quality standard.
• Maintain, adapt and improve testing tools and artifacts, data, documentation, test environments, test automation tools and test reports.
• Train and mentor others on how to test software and how to apply proven testing methodologies, improve software quality and reduce quality risks.
• Ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.
• Live Hitachi Energy’s core values of safety and integrity, taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

Your Background

• MTech/ME Degree in Electrical / Power Systems Engineering or PhD in Electrical.
• Experience participating in the quality assurance process at a large and geographically dispersed software development organization.
• Experience in software development using C, Java, Fortran, Python and other scripting languages.
• Experience in SQL language and MS SQL, Oracle, Postgres and other relational and non‑relational databases.
• Experience with data formats (Excel, CSV, XML, JSON) and data transformation and ETL tools.
• Experience with JUnit, TestNG, DBUnit, FRUIT, Selenium, Cucumber or similar testing frameworks.
• Familiarity with Linux, AIX, Windows, and other operating systems.
• Critical thinker, able to work independently and perform tasks and assignments with minimal supervision.
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills.