Hitachi Vantara
Website:
hitachivantara.com
Job details:
Location: Hyderabad, India
Function: (DEAI HV) Engineering
Requisition ID: R0127212
Our Company
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’re looking for a
Senior QA Engineer to join our engineering team in India, with a preference for candidates located in
Hyderabad. This role will support quality assurance for enterprise software products in a complex, global engineering environment.
The Senior QA Engineer will be responsible for validating product functionality, improving test coverage, driving automation, supporting release readiness, and helping ensure high-quality deliverables for customers. This position plays a key role in product quality, regression testing, automation improvement, defect validation, and cross-functional collaboration with development, product management, DevOps, and global engineering teams.
The Role
- Design, develop, and execute test plans, test cases, and test scenarios for enterprise software products.
- Perform functional, regression, integration, system, and compatibility testing across supported platforms.
- Own QA activities throughout the software development lifecycle, including requirement review, test planning, execution, defect reporting, verification, and release validation.
- Develop and maintain automated test scripts to improve test efficiency and regression coverage.
- Analyze product requirements, design documents, and user workflows to identify test scope and quality risks.
- Work closely with developers and product owners to clarify requirements and validate expected behavior.
- Investigate, reproduce, and document software defects with clear steps, logs, screenshots, and supporting evidence.
- Validate bug fixes and perform root-cause-oriented testing to prevent regression issues.
- Support CI/CD pipeline testing and contribute to automation integration where applicable.
- Participate in release readiness reviews and provide QA status, risk assessment, and quality recommendations.
- Maintain QA documentation, including test cases, test results, automation status, and known issues.
- Collaborate with global teams across different time zones to support development, testing, and customer-driven priorities.
- Drive continuous improvement in QA processes, automation coverage, test data management, and overall product quality.
What You’ll Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 6+ years of hands-on software QA experience, preferably in enterprise software, infrastructure software, storage, data protection, cloud, or systems management products.
- Strong experience in test planning, test case design, test execution, defect tracking, and release validation.
- Experience with both manual testing and test automation.
- Hands-on experience with automation using Python, Java, Selenium, Robot Framework, pytest, TestNG, or similar tools.
- Working knowledge of Linux and Windows environments.
- Experience testing REST APIs, CLI tools, web-based applications, or enterprise management software.
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions, or similar platforms.
- Experience with Jira, Confluence, or similar Agile development and defect tracking tools.
- Good understanding of software development lifecycle, Agile/Scrum practices, and QA best practices.
- Ability to analyze logs, troubleshoot issues, isolate defects, and communicate findings clearly.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work independently, manage priorities, and collaborate effectively with global teams.
- Strong ownership mindset and attention to detail.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with storage systems, backup/recovery software, virtualization, or cloud platforms.
- Experience with VMware, Hyper-V, Kubernetes, Docker, or other infrastructure technologies.
- Experience testing enterprise integrations, plug-ins, adapters, or management software.
- Experience with performance, scalability, security, or upgrade testing.
- Basic scripting knowledge for test setup, log collection, and environment validation.
- Experience working in a global engineering organization with distributed teams.
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 make a 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.
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.
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