Description

Hitachi Energy’s Automation and Communication is seeking an experienced software engineer who wants to become part of the Product Quality team. Our products protect and control transmission of electricity to major metropolitan areas, key industrial infrastructure, and power generation sites, including nuclear power plants, all over the world. Needless to say, quality is at the very heart of our business.

Together with the development teams you will support and monitor the quality of software throughout the development lifecycle for communication, monitoring, protection, and control products. Our products are mission critical and are in the midst of the digitalization transformation of the grid automation business enabling big data, industrial Internet of Things, enhancing reliability as well as situational awareness in power systems.

Main Accountabilities

Together with the Product quality team and other quality functions you will define and drive a portfolio of initiatives focusing on improving software quality.

Including but not limited to:

• Analyze, drive, and oversee quality improvements in software architecture, design and implementation practices based on software quality metrics and reviews
• Analyze, determine, and deploy counter measures to prevent defect re-occurrence
• Define software quality requirements for software quality gates
• Drive the use and continuous improvements of software quality analysis tools, software scanning tools and test automation frameworks by the development teams
• Act as subject matter expert for configuration of the software quality analysis and scanning tools as well as the analysis of the output from said tools

Knowledge and Experience

• Master/Diploma or advanced degree in software engineering or computer science
• 5+ years’ experience in developing high reliability products, preferably embedded real-time systems
• Full stack developer technical proficiency, with weight on backend technologies: Linux, Windows, C++, and C# development
• Previous knowledge and efficient use of development and build tools such as Visual Studio, Azure DevOps pipelines, Jenkins and Atlassian tools
• Experience with software quality analysis and scanning tools like SonarQube, Klocwork, Lattix and BlackDuck as well as test automation frameworks like Google Test
• Any other software or IT expertise (e.g., security, safety, communication protocols, system engineering, testing, performance engineering) is preferred.
• Minimum of 3+ years of work experience in a role that required analytical skills and effective communication with internal and external stakeholders
• Solid understanding of development work within R&D organization: requirements engineering, development, verification & validation, and configuration management in an Agile environment
• Capable of driving culture and influencing management and peers to ensure the correct thinking and decision making required to support the implementation and execution of product reliability initiatives and activities
• Good interpersonal skills, dynamic team player, structured thinking, and professional approach