Test Engineer - GMS

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

Job summary

Hitachi Energy in Bangalore invites a Quality Assurance Engineer to join a global team dedicated to delivering reliable power software. You will plan testing from requirements, design functional and non-functional use cases, and develop test scripts to validate complex energy systems.

You will report progress, collaborate with developers to verify fixes, apply automation where possible, and mentor teammates in testing best practices while upholding Hitachi Energy’s values of safety and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field and 5+ years of experience.

Responsibilities

• Plan testing from business requirements, solution designs and functional specs.
• Design and develop functional and non-functional use cases and test cases.
• Maintain and execute test scripts using test management tools and report progress.
• Identify, track and investigate issues; collaborate with developers to replicate, fix and verify corrections.
• Gain domain knowledge to take responsibility for full product life cycle development.

Skills

QA testing

Test management

Automation testing

C#

Java

Azure DevOps

Zephyr Scale

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Zephyr Scale (Jira)

Azure DevOps

Visual Studio

NUnit

TestNG

Job description

Join Hitachi Energy and work in a team that is dedicated to creating a future where innovative digital technologies allow greater access to cleaner energy.

It is an exciting time to join Hitachi Energy Inc. Hitachi Energy is currently well-positioned to shape the future of energy, with pioneering technologies, as the partner of choice for enabling a stronger, smarter and greener grid.
Hitachi Energy Inc. is seeking GMS Quality Assurance Engineer for its Bangalore, IN location and be part of a global organization with offices in Houston (TX), San Jose (CA.), Vasteras (Sweden) and Krakow (Poland). Under limited direction, perform complex quality assurance assignments requiring diversified knowledge of power system applications, engineering and quality assurance to cost effectively accomplish the organization's goals and objectives. Proactively seek and implement initiatives to improve quality and increase customer satisfaction.

Your responsibilities

• 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.
• Effectively identify, track and investigate issues found during testing. Collaborate with developers 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.
• 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 Automatic Generation Control (AGC), Generation Planning, Economic Dispatch, Reserve Management, etc.
• Experience in Test Management tools like Zephyr Scale (Jira), Azure DevOps to maintain and execute test procedures is a plus
• Knowledge of QA testing principles and experience in building automated tests (using tools such as Visual Studio, NUnit, TestNG) and using programming languages like C#, Java is a plus.

Your background

• Bachelor's degree in Electric engineering or related field and 5+ years of experience.
• Candidates must already have a work authorization that would permit them to work for Hitachi Energy in the US.
• 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 utilies 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.