What are the responsibilities and job description for the QA Lead position at Hitachi Digital Services?
Our Company
We’re Hitachi Digital Services, a global digital solutions and transformation business with a bold vision of our world’s potential. We’re people-centric and here to power good. Every day, we future-proof urban spaces, conserve natural resources, protect rainforests, and save lives. This is a world where innovation, technology, and deep expertise come together to take our company and customers from what’s now to what’s next. We make it happen through the power of acceleration.
Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to bring a better tomorrow closer to today. We don’t expect you to ‘fit’ every requirement – your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.
The Team
Primary focus of this role is to manage QA responsibility for the entire project including test strategy development, planning and execution of the test processes, working with an Agile development team as a primary contributor to development, integration, and deployment of system tests, ensuring quality, reliability, usability, and performance of new features. Participating in agile best practices and ceremonies, including use case development, story writing, grooming, and story pointing daily stand-ups, demos and retrospectives.
Responsibilities
The Role:
As required by the equal pay and transparency acts, the expected base salary for this position is: $130k-$135k base bonus.
The expected pay is determined based on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, depth of experience in the practice area. Employees are eligible to participate in Hitachi Digital Services bonus/variable/commission pay programs, where applicable, and are subject to the program’s conditions and restrictions.
About Us
We’re a global, team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can make a positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can bring a better tomorrow closer to today, this is the place for you.
Championing diversity, equity, and inclusion
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are integral to our culture and identity. Diverse thinking, a commitment to allyship, and a culture of empowerment help us achieve powerful results. We want you to be you, with all the ideas, lived experience, and fresh perspective that brings. We support your uniqueness and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and realize their full potential as part of our team.
How We Look After You
We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.
We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.
We’re Hitachi Digital Services, a global digital solutions and transformation business with a bold vision of our world’s potential. We’re people-centric and here to power good. Every day, we future-proof urban spaces, conserve natural resources, protect rainforests, and save lives. This is a world where innovation, technology, and deep expertise come together to take our company and customers from what’s now to what’s next. We make it happen through the power of acceleration.
Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to bring a better tomorrow closer to today. We don’t expect you to ‘fit’ every requirement – your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.
The Team
Primary focus of this role is to manage QA responsibility for the entire project including test strategy development, planning and execution of the test processes, working with an Agile development team as a primary contributor to development, integration, and deployment of system tests, ensuring quality, reliability, usability, and performance of new features. Participating in agile best practices and ceremonies, including use case development, story writing, grooming, and story pointing daily stand-ups, demos and retrospectives.
Responsibilities
The Role:
- Develop Test Strategy Document
- Develop and execute complex test plans consistent with Agile sprint development plans
- Monitor, manage and conduct functional and UI testing for all new features for desktop application and browser testing environments, including testing code of high complexity
- Lead and mentors 2-3 test engineers and be accountable for their productivity and deliverables
- Track Progress of Efforts
- Track Test cases, Defects
- Communicate the status of testing deliverables to the team.
- Participate in the design process to understand, analyze and influence the application/service/system to be tested.
- Identify and manage risks and appropriate test coverage to validate new features as well as regression, and develop test plans and cases.
- Lead the team towards automation
- Maintain documentation of test scripts, processes and procedures
- Learn and implement new testing procedures and advanced tools
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or related field.
- 8 years of Application Testing experience
- Experience in preparing Test Planning, Test Strategy, Effort Estimation, Defect Management, Metrics, Test Automation Plan
- Experience in managing team members in global setting (onshore/offshore)
- Knowledge and understanding of GUI designs, load or stress testing, Designing test suites
- Experience in Zephyr, LoadRunner and jmeter
- Experience in Test Automation
- Knowledge of development including coding, basic SQL knowledge to extract data for tests, XML, general web development skills, and web services
- Advanced understanding of technology (i.e. OS layer, database layer, application layer, network, etc.)
- Understanding of Agile testing methodologies, DevOps
- Knowledge of how functions will work differently on different browsers and devices
- Ability to both take direction and work independently in owning projects
- Great verbal and written communication skills
- Willingness to travel as necessary, work the required schedule.
As required by the equal pay and transparency acts, the expected base salary for this position is: $130k-$135k base bonus.
The expected pay is determined based on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, depth of experience in the practice area. Employees are eligible to participate in Hitachi Digital Services bonus/variable/commission pay programs, where applicable, and are subject to the program’s conditions and restrictions.
About Us
We’re a global, team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can make a positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can bring a better tomorrow closer to today, this is the place for you.
Championing diversity, equity, and inclusion
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are integral to our culture and identity. Diverse thinking, a commitment to allyship, and a culture of empowerment help us achieve powerful results. We want you to be you, with all the ideas, lived experience, and fresh perspective that brings. We support your uniqueness and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and realize their full potential as part of our team.
How We Look After You
We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.
We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.
Salary : $130,000 - $135,000
