Function

Cloud & Data Engineering

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.

Job description

Role Summary

We are seeking an experienced QA Test Lead to drive end-to-end testing strategy, planning, automation, and execution for enterprise applications and backend system integrations. The ideal candidate will have strong leadership experience managing offshore QA teams, defining test approaches, and implementing automation frameworks to ensure high-quality product delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead SIT, functional, regression, automation, API, database, performance, load, and mobile testing initiatives.

• Define test strategies, methodologies, test plans, and test data management approaches.

• Develop user journey-based testing scenarios for complex backend integrations.

• Lead and mentor offshore QA teams and drive quality best practices.

• Build and maintain automation frameworks using Selenium and Java.

• Drive test automation adoption to accelerate regression testing.

• Manage defects, risks, dependencies, and quality metrics throughout the testing lifecycle.

• Collaborate with business and technology teams to ensure comprehensive test coverage.

• Track and report testing progress using JIRA and Zephyr.

• Present testing status, quality metrics, and outcomes to leadership.

Mandatory Skills

• 15+ years of QA/Test Lead experience across application and backend integration testing.

• 6+ years leading Automation Testing teams using open-source tools.

• Strong experience with Selenium Automation using Java.

• Expertise in API, Database, Regression, Mobile, Performance, and Load Testing.

• Experience creating user journey-driven test scenarios and managing test data.

• Experience managing offshore QA teams.

• Familiarity with Jenkins, SonarQube, JIRA, and Zephyr.

• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and presentation skills.

• Goal-oriented mindset with strong focus on product quality and business outcomes.

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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.

Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives

Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.

We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.

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.