eMobility Test Engineer

Location:

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Job ID:

R0072236

Date Posted:

2025-02-03

Company Name:

HITACHI ENERGY USA INC

Profession (Job Category):

Engineering & Science

Job Schedule: 

Full time

Remote:

No

Job Description:

Job Overview

We are looking for a highly skilled and very motivated E-Mobility Test Engineer to join our team. The Test Engineer will be responsible for setting/operating our our brand-new R&D test lab. designing, implementing, and executing test plans to ensure the quality and performance of our hard and software products and systems in the HV e-mobility space.  A strong understanding of testing complex systems with hardware high voltage or high current AC & DC equipment and software both is key for this role as well as a pragmatic attitude to overcome bottlenecks.

Roles and Responsibilities

Test Planning and Strategy:

• Contribute to the test strategy and draft the test approaches as well as further areas of the test strategy.
• Develop comprehensive test plans and strategies based on product requirements, specifications, and user stories.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (development, product management, and others) to understand requirements and ensure test coverage.
• Identify test requirements and create detailed test cases, scenarios, and scripts for functional/unit, integration, system integration and customer related testing.

Test Execution:

• Execute manual and automated test cases, analyse test results, and report bugs and issues.
• Perform end-to-end testing of products and systems to ensure functionality, usability, and reliability.
• Conduct various types of testing including functional, regression, performance, load, security, reliability ompliance, standard conformance, strive and /or customer acceptance testing.

Equipment, tools and automation

• Develop, maintain, and enhance test equipment while building up an automation frameworks
• Integrate automated tests to ensure continuous testing and delivery.
• Identify, evaluate, and implement new testing tools and technologies to improve testing efficiency and effectiveness.

Safety, security and availability: Strong sense for laboratory safety and professional working in an high-voltage equipment environment. Acts as local lead in terms for laboratory safety.

Defect Management

• Identify, document, and prioritize defects and work closely with quality and the development teams to ensure timely resolution.
• Track defect status and produce detailed reports and metrics on testing progress, defects, and coverage.
• Ensure that issues are resolved and thoroughly tested before release.

Collaboration and Communication

• Work closely with internal and external stakeholders to provide feedback on product quality and improvement
• Participate in related team calls, project planning and retrospectives within a very dynamic development environment.
• Provide clear and concise documentation for test plans, test cases, test results, and defect reports.

Testing evolution

• Identify opportunities for process improvements and propose changes to enhance the quality and efficiency of the testing process.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies in software testing and quality assurance.

 Required Competencies 

• MSc Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong understanding of testing methodologies, tools, and processes.
• experience with high voltage or high current AC & DC equipment
• experience in operating within a test lab, capable to coordinate test lab work
• Hands-on experience with test tools and automation frameworks
•  Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
•  Experience in performance and System testing.
•  Knowledge of testing platforms in eMobility.

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