Test Automation Engineer - IDC

Hitachi ABB Power Grids; India; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Energy's Enterprise Software R&D Unit in India is seeking a QA Automation Engineer to develop and maintain automated tests, improve software quality, and support reliable product releases using modern tools and practices.

You will design test plans, perform API testing with Postman and Karate, automate with Selenium and Java, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure customer expectations are met while upholding quality standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor\'s degree in CS or related field and 5–8 years of automation experience.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with QA databases and applications.
• Knowledge of SQL and PostgreSQL.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute test plans to meet objectives.
• Test software features to verify designs and outcomes.
• Implement and monitor test automation scripts for quality.
• Perform API testing and automation with Postman and Karate.
• Create and maintain test cases, execute manual tests, and track defects with Jira.
• Recommend corrective actions and analyze quality data.
• Draft QA policies and ensure user expectations are met during testing.
• Investigate customer complaints and product issues.
• Ensure compliance with quality and regulatory requirements.
• Uphold Hitachi Energy values of safety and integrity.

Skills

Selenium

Java

API testing

Postman

Karate Framework

SQL / PostgreSQL

CI/CD concepts

Jira

Zephyr Scale

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Information Systems

Tools

Jira

Zephyr Scale

Postman

Karate

Job description

The Opportunity:

Join Hitachi Energy’s Enterprise Software R&D Unit as a QA Automation Engineer. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to build and maintain automated tests, improve software quality, and support reliable product releases using modern tools and practices. This role offers opportunities to solve technical challenges, expand your expertise, and grow in a global R&D environment. You will report to the R&D Team Manager.

How You’ll Make an Impact:

• To develop and execute test plans to ensure that all objectives are met.
• To test software features and systems to determine success in achieving the intended designs and outcomes.
• To implement and monitor test automation scripts to assess functionality, reliability, performance, and quality of the service or product and identify and remedy defects within the production process.
• To perform API testing and API automation using Postman and Karate Framework.
• To create and maintain test cases, manual test execution, regression suites, and defect tracking using Jira and Zephyr Scale.
• Recommend, implement, and monitor preventative and corrective actions to ensure that quality assurance standards are upheld. Compile and analyze statistical data.
• To ensure that user expectations are met during the testing process and draft quality assurance policies and procedures.
• Investigate customer complaints and product issues.
• Ensure ongoing compliance with quality and industry regulatory requirements.
• Responsible for ensuring compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.
• Living Hitachi Energy’s core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

Your Background:

• Required bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems or a related field with 5 to 8 years’ experience in automation of test scenarios. Experience in quality inspection, auditing, and testing.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Strong computer skills and knowledge of QA databases and applications, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge of the following will be a plus - Selenium / Java / Eclipse / BDD Frameworks / TDD Frameworks / SQL / XML / Json / PostgreSQL / Appium / Mobile Automation / CI/CD Concepts / GitHub Copilot / Excellent Verbal and Writing Skills.
• Good database skills with knowledge of SQL & Postgres.

More about us:

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.