Our Company
We’re Hitachi Digital Services, a global digital solutions and transformation business. Our expertise, innovation and technology unlock potential – from taking theme park fans on magical rides, conserving natural resources, protecting rainforests, and saving lives. We automate, modernize, optimize, and accelerate. Our people are trusted transformers, with deep engineering expertise, focused on a sustainable future for all.
Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to inspire the future. We don’t expect you to ‘fit’ every requirement – your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things are equally important to us.
The team
We’re a leader in cutting-edge innovation, the transformative power of cloud technology, and converged and hyperconverged solutions. Our mission is to empower clients to securely store, manage, and modernize their digital core, unlocking valuable insights and driving data-driven value.
This strong, diverse, and collaborative group of technology professionals collaborate with teams to support our customers as they store, enrich, activate, and monetise their data, bringing value to every line of their business.
The role: Automation Test Engineer with AWS Cloud
Job Summary:
We are looking for an experienced Senior Test Engineer with a focus on automation and proficiency in Amazon Web Services (AWS). This role will play a key role in the development, testing, and maintenance of our automated test suite for cloud-based applications, ensuring robust testing strategies that align with best practices. The ideal candidate should have a strong background in test automation, cloud environments, and hands-on experience with AWS services.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Test Automation Development:
o Design, develop, and maintain scalable test automation frameworks and scripts.
o Implement end-to-end automated tests for web applications, APIs, and cloud infrastructure components.
o Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to streamline testing and deployment.
2. AWS Cloud Testing:
o Design and implement testing strategies for applications deployed in AWS environments.
o Ensure comprehensive testing of AWS components, including S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, EC2, CloudFormation, and other relevant services.
o Collaborate with cloud engineers to validate infrastructure and deployment setups.
3. Quality Assurance and Testing Strategy:
o Define and implement test strategies, plans, and processes for a robust and high-quality release.
o Conduct performance, security, and compatibility testing as required.
o Ensure automated test coverage aligns with the project requirements and quality standards.
4. Collaboration and Documentation:
o Work closely with development, DevOps, and product teams to understand requirements and deliver effective test strategies.
o Document test cases, test plans, and results to maintain transparency and reproducibility of testing efforts.
o Mentor junior QA engineers, guiding automation and AWS testing.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
• Experience: 5+ years in test automation engineering, with experience in AWS.
• Automation Tools: Proficiency in using tools like Selenium, Cypress, JUnit, TestNG, or similar for web and API testing.
• Programming Languages: Good skills in Python, Java, or JavaScript for scripting automated tests.
• AWS Services: Experience with AWS services, including EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, CloudFormation, IAM, etc.
• CI/CD: Experience in integrating automated tests with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or AWS CodePipeline.
• Performance Testing: Familiarity with performance testing tools like JMeter, LoadRunner, or Gatling is a plus.
• Soft Skills: Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Test Management Tools: Familiarity with test management tools such as JIRA, TestRail, or similar.
What you’ll bring
Proven expertise in your area by which you can contribute to the growth of the practice—subject matter expert who can increase competency in said technology and mentor other team members.
Be at the forefront of the exciting journey Hitachi Digital Solutions has undertaken and contribute immensely through your consulting skills for internal and external customers.
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.
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.
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What We Do
Hitachi Digital Services is an independent services business that focuses on delivering a unified operating model for cloud, data, IoT and managed services.
Playing a pivotal role in Hitachi's digital transformation strategy, Hitachi Digital Services places a strong emphasis on Generative AI to deliver an integrated end-to-end digital transformation for enterprises. The company is strategically positioned within the Hitachi Digital portfolio of companies to leverage the synergies between operational technology (OT), information technology (IT), and product and service offerings.
Such positioning allows Hitachi Digital Services to work closely with Hitachi Digital, the new Hitachi Vantara and Hitachi group businesses, including GlobalLogic, to create an integrated end-to-end digital transformation solution for enterprises
