R&D Senior QA group Lead - IDC | Bengaluru, India

Hitachi Energy; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Energy Ltd. in Bengaluru is seeking a Quality Assurance Group Lead to steer a multinational QA team and oversee testing of software applications for energy management and grid solutions. You will drive testing strategies, develop comprehensive test cases, and mentor staff across locations, ensuring quality and timely delivery. A strong background in QA leadership and EMS/GMS/SCADA familiarity is preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field required.
• 10+ years of experience in quality assurance.
• Experience leading QA teams and defining test strategy.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the quality group and its testing efforts for software applications like EMS and GMS.
• Plan testing approaches and data creation activities based on business requirements.
• Design functional and non-functional use cases and test cases to verify requirements.
• Utilize test management tools to maintain and execute scripts and report progress.
• Create test plans and strategies for SCADA, EMS, and GMS applications.
• Identify, track and investigate issues; collaborate with PD team to verify corrections.
• Gain domain knowledge to take responsibility for full product life cycle development.
• Participate in Agile development processes and team activities.
• Create automated test scripts and manual test scripts; mentor others in testing methodologies.

Skills

QA testing

Leadership

Test strategy

Agile

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field

Tools

Zephyr Scale

Jira

Azure DevOps

Visual Studio

NUnit

TestNG

Playwright

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

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.

• 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

We are a global leader in electrification, powering the electricity era to meet the energy demands of today, and the next 25 years. As the energy arm of Hitachi Group, over three billion people depend on our pioneering, mission-critical technologies to power their daily lives.

With over a century of innovation, we are addressing the most urgent energy challenge of our time: driving the evolution of the world’s energy system to ensure abundant, secure, affordable, and sustainable power for today’s generation and the next.

With an unparalleled installed base in over 140 countries, we are the grid ecosystem partner across the utility, industry, data center, and transportation sectors. Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ over 56,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of around $20 billion USD. We welcome you to apply today.