Specialist SDET & Quality Lead (1029856)
Location: Waltham, MA
Function:
HV Engineering
Requisition ID:
1029856
Specialist SDET & Quality Lead (1029856)
We’re Hitachi Vantara, the data foundation trusted by the world’s innovators. Our resilient, high-performance data infrastructure means that customers – from banks to theme parks – can focus on achieving the incredible with data.
If you’ve seen the Las Vegas Sphere, you’ve seen just one example of how we empower businesses to automate, optimize, innovate – and wow their customers. Right now, we’re laying the foundation for our next wave of growth. We’re looking for people who love being part of a diverse, global team – and who get excited about making a real-world impact with data.
The team
We are seeking a Specialist SDET & Quality Lead to join a fast-paced, highly collaborative engineering team. In this role, you will lead & work with your scrum team to prototype, design, develop, and qualify software solutions. The Engineering team embraces a highly collaborative development model that requires deep development and test involvement from start to finish for each project.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Quality Engineering function for the entire engineering team
- Participate in creating, running, and maintaining white box & black box test suites to ensure regression coverage and software quality with a focus on automation
- Triage and document test failures, validate veracity of fixes and ensure new regression coverage as necessary
- Lead efforts and contribute to evolving the quality competency for the entire engineering team
- Contribute to evolving and advocating for quality best practices (for example: quality plans, test strategy, test case development, automation, test tools & technologies, etc.)
- Take ownership for and drive updates to a multitude of integration environments for development & qualification of our products/solutions
- Provide technical leadership through mentoring & coaching members of the engineering team
- Contribute to the design, development, deployment, and support scalable software solutions
- Contribute to and participate in reviews of functional specifications, technical designs, qualification plans
- Participate in reviews of business requirements
Education & Experience Requirements
- 8-10+ years of hands-on contribution in software engineering or equivalent related experience
- Experience testing scalable distributed software and complex products & solutions
- Database, networking, Linux knowledge
- Deep understanding of engineering processes (including Agile methodologies)
- Advanced problem-solving skills
- Ability to quickly ramp up on new technologies
- Ability to ramp up on and take ownership for existing test framework, test causes, automation suites
- Ability to convey complex technical information in a clear and concise manner
- Ability to influence and moderate technical discussions with the engineering team
- Tech savvy, detail oriented, and highly driven
- Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills
- A genuine passion for ensuring the team delivers high-quality solutions
- Relevant formal education, including BSCS or MSCS
About us
We’re a global team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion for insight to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can a make positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can inspire the future, this is the place to fulfil your purpose and achieve your potential.
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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.
