R&D Senior QA group Lead - IDC

Hitachi, Ltd.; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 1,500,000 - 2,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Energy in Bengaluru, India, seeks a Quality Assurance Group Lead to guide a team across global locations including Bangalore, Houston, San Jose, Västerås and Kraków. You will drive testing strategy for EMS, GMS and SCADA applications, ensuring high-quality deliveries and customer satisfaction.

Under limited direction you will mentor engineers, design test plans, implement automated tests using C#/Java, and collaborate with Zephyr Scale, Jira, and Azure DevOps.

Qualifications

• Experience leading QA teams across multiple locations and projects.
• Strong knowledge of EMS/GMS and SCADA testing.
• Familiarity with test management tools and automation frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the quality group and its testing efforts for EMS, GMS, and SCADA software.
• Plan testing approaches from requirements and designs to ensure high quality deliveries.
• Design functional and non-functional test cases and automate where possible.
• Maintain and execute test scripts, report progress, and drive quality improvements.
• Mentor team members and promote best testing practices.

Skills

QA Leadership

Test Management

Automated Testing

C# / Java

Azure DevOps

SCADA

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Tools

Zephyr Scale

Jira

Azure DevOps

Job description

Hitachi Energy is seeking Quality Assurance Group lead to lead a team across different global locations, so come join us to be part of a global quality organization with offices in Bangalore (India), Houston (TX, USA), San Jose (CA., USA), Vasteras (Sweden) and Krakow (Poland). Under limited direction, you will lead the quality group, perform complex quality assurance assignments requiring diversified knowledge of power system applications, engineering and quality assurance practices to cost effectively accomplish the organization's goals and objectives. Proactively seek and implement initiatives to improve quality and increase customer satisfaction.

Your responsibilities

• Lead and manage the quality group and its testing efforts for software applications like Energy Management Systems (EMS), Generation Management systems (GMS) for electrical utilities.
• Use business requirements, solution designs and functional specifications to plan the testing approach 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
• Effectively use test management tools to maintain and execute test scripts while also reporting testing progress and status.
• Create test plans and strategies for SCADA systems, and Energy /Generation Management systems (EMS/GMS) applications
• Effectively identify, track and investigate issues found during testing. Collaborate with PD team to replicate, fix and verify corrections while also providing testing verification progress. Provide feedback related to key challenges/product limitations uncovered during testing.
• Gain domain and solution knowledge to take responsibility for the full product life cycle development.
• Use Agile development methodologies that require active participation in all team's duties.
• Create Automated test scripts, including developing in Application Programming Interface and User Interface code in addition to creating manual test scripts
• Living Hitachi's core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues, and the business.
• Train and mentor others on how to test software and how to apply proven testing methodologies, improve software quality and reduce quality risks

Preferred experience:

• Experience in Energy, Generation Management Systems (EMS/GMS) & SCADA systems with proper understanding of network power applications like State Estimation, Network Modeling, Short Circuit Analysis, Fault location etc., will be preferred.
• Experience in Test Management tools like Zephyr Scale/Jira, Azure DevOps to maintain and execute test procedures is a must.
• Knowledge of QA testing principles and experience in building automated tests (using tools such as Visual Studio, NUnit, TestNG, Playwright) and using programming languages like C#, Java
• Knowledge and Certification in AI tools like CoPilot will be preferred.Your background
• Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field and 10+ years of experience;
• Candidates must already have a work authorization that would permit them to work for Hitachi Energy.
• Ability to develop innovative solutions to problems and make decisions regarding quality matters that may significantly impact contracts
• Possess a diversified knowledge of engineering, electric utilities and related functions
• In-depth knowledge of quality assurance programs, procedures, and regulatory agency guidelines