R&D Engineer

Location:

(HE)Office_ Commerzone

Job ID:

R0039505

Date Posted:

2024-02-22

Company Name:

HITACHI ENERGY TECHNOLOGY SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED

Profession (Job Category):

Engineering & Science

Job Schedule:

Full time

Remote:

No

Job Description:

Hitachi Energy is a global technology leader that is advancing a sustainable energy future for all. We serve customers in the utility, industry and infrastructure sectors with innovative solutions and services across the value chain. Together with customers and partners, we pioneer technologies and enable the digital transformation required to accelerate the energy transition towards a carbon-neutral future. We are advancing the world’s energy system to become more sustainable, flexible, and secure whilst balancing social, environmental, and economic value. Hitachi Energy has a proven track record and unparalleled installed base in more than 140 countries. Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ around 40,000 people in more than 90 countries and generate business volumes of approximately $10 billion USD. Website: [https://www.hitachienergy.com/in/en>

Your Responsibilities:

The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background in testing domain (verification and validation), possess strong communication skills, experience with complete testing lifecycle, proven experience working with SCRUM and other AGILE development methodologies, experience in reporting and end user support.

Ability to learn the system, understand the scope of the system, define test scenarios to verify completely to ensure high quality releases, meeting customer requirements. The candidate needs to be self-driven & having out of the box thinking, for planning, execution and reporting of verification activities. Very good awareness on the process side, such as Scrum / Agile, or Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) which is an added advantage, along with capabilities in Operational Excellence.

Ensure quality and timely deliverables, collaborating and coordinating with all concerned teams and organizations, both internal and external, as per the projects and products plans. Some of the key responsibilities include, but not limited to

Activities & Deliverables

Work together with the Product Management, Software development and Integration & Validation teams, to plan and execute system verification, of MACH Control Platform, thereby ensuring quality deliverables for engineering, for our customers.

• System Verification Scope Definition - Define system verification scope, areas, considering the boundaries and limits, performance & parameters, functional & non-functional requirements.
• Develop/Write Test procedures - Write Test Plan / Test Specifications, Test Cases / Scenarios for verifying the functionalities of the Control System, for system level verification, for the system requirements / parameters.
• Configuring Test Environment - Test Environment is to be created with the components of MACH Control System in the Test Lab Facility, with Computers, Servers, Input - Output Boards and Simulation Environments, for test developments and execution.
• Test Execution - Execution of Test Cases, for various software and hardware releases using the developed test cases in the test lab.
• Test Reporting - Report the test execution details to the development team for further actions. Capturing the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), report & use for further improvements.
• Maintains Test Environment - Maintain the test environment with updated software and hardware for current and future use**.**
• Process Definition & Adherence: Support to establish and maintain processes for system verification, within the overall MACH control system product development & release, for planning, execution, reviews & reporting. Adhere to the defined & approved process, in full, all the time.
• Automation – Focus on automation, continuously, for efficiency and quality improvements. Define & implement.
• Continuous Improvements: Continuously improve the test scenarios, execution and reporting, for efficiency and effectiveness.
• Planning: Support the management for strategy and planning, for future system verification needs.
• Deliver – Deliver value with Quality, On-Time.
• Safety & Integrity: Comply with all Hitachi Energy safety & integrity requirements.

Your Background:

• Graduate or Masters degree in engineering (Electrical & Electronics, Electronics and communication, Instrumentation & Control)
• More than 5 years of proven experience in product verification, with exposure to the complete testing life cycle
• Exposure / experience working with verification of power systems or similar products, is a huge plus.
• Experience / exposure, working with control & protection, events & alarms, time synchronization, communication protocols such as IEC61850, modbus etc.
• Hands-on experience in writing test plans / test specifications, test cases, test reports
• Experience in working with test management tools such as TFS or similar.
• Experience with Test Automation implementation (Python / other tools)
• ISTQB or similar certification, is preferred.
• Experience with process such as Agile / Scrum (SAFe is an added advantage).
• Strong communication - both verbal & written, and collaboration skills
• Self-driven
• Good intercultural sensitivity
• Coaching & mentoring skills
• R&D mindset