Power Systems Test Engineer – Energy Market Quality Assurance

The Opportunity

Our Market Management System (MMS) engineering team creates the software used by electricity market operators to manage, optimize and operate some of the largest transmission and distribution networks in the world. We are recognized leaders in solving the most challenging and meaningful business and engineering problems by delivering the most complete, sophisticated, scalable and reliable systems available in the market.

How You’ll Make An Impact

• Use business requirements, solution designs and functional specifications to plan the testing 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.
• Work closely with engineering to specify the format, volume and tools needed to collect and process the data required for testing.
• Collaborate with subject matter experts to obtain, prepare, process, validate and complete the data required for testing.
• Provide data to support developer unit test and use unit test results to improve the test cases, test data and test steps required to execute quality assurance testing.
• Implement reusable test automation, data and function validation tools.
• Execute functional and non-functional tests part of smoke test, integration test, factory acceptance test, performance tests, issue resolution and regression tests, and track and correct data and test steps as required to ensure test coverage.
• Provide testing progress and status reports to engineering team.
• Identify, track and investigate issues found during testing, collaborate with developers to replicate, fix and verify corrections and provide testing verification progress reports.
• Analyze test results and recommend improvements and corrective actions required to ensure adherence to a high-quality standard.
• Maintain, adapt and improve testing tools and artifacts, data, documentation, test environments, test automation tools and test reports.
• Train and mentor others on how to test software and how to apply proven testing methodologies, improve software quality and reduce quality risks.
• Responsible to ensure 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

• MTech/ME Degree in Electrical / Power systems Engineering or PhD in Electrical.
• Should have 3 to 5 years' experience.
• Experience participating in the quality assurance process at a large and geographically dispersed software development organization.
• Experience in software development using C, Java, Fortran, Phyton and other scripting languages.
• Experience in SQL language and MS SQL, Oracle, Postgres and other relational and non-relational databases.
• Experience in data formats (Excel, CSV, XML, JSON) and data transformation and ETL tools.
• Experience with JUnit, TestNG, DBUnit, FRUIT, Selenium, Cucumber or similar testing frameworks.
• Familiarity with Linux, AIX, Windows, and other operating systems.
• Critical thinker, able to work independently and perform tasks and assignments with minimal supervision.
• Excellent verbal and written English communications skills.
• Experience with Power Systems Network Modeling, Network Topological Analysis, Power Flow, Contingency Analysis, State Estimator, Security Constrained Unit Commitment, Economic Dispatch, Linear and Non-Linear Programming (Optimization) and Numerical Method.
  
  

Hitachi Energy is a global technology leader in electrification, powering a sustainable energy future through innovative power grid technologies with digital at the core. Over three billion people depend on our technologies to power their daily lives.

With over a century in pioneering mission-critical technologies like high-voltage, transformers, automation, and power electronics, we are addressing the most urgent energy challenge of our time – balancing soaring electricity demand, while decarbonizing the power system.

Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ over 50,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of around $16 billion USD. We welcome you to apply today.