R&D Senior Engineer

Business Information:

Hitachi Energy India Development Centre (IDC) is a research and development facility with around 500 R&D engineers, specialists, and experts, who focus on creating and sustaining digital solutions, new products and technology. This includes product integration, testing, cybersecurity, and certification.  The India Development Centre is situated in Chennai and Bangalore. IDC collaborates with the R&D and Research centres of Hitachi Energy, which are spread across more than 15 locations throughout 12 countries. In the past 20 years, IDC has secured more than 200 international papers and 150+ patents.

You will be part of HAPG, Automation and Communication business in Bangalore. We are responsible for development of protection and control products for power generation, transmission and sub-transmission network applications. Our product offer includes IEDs in the Relion 670/650 series as well as the COMBIFLEX family.

• Verification & validation of substation automation products.

• Participate in test core team workshop to understand the product test requirements and performs software/domain test activities on system/product projects, including design, coding, and black box testing of software modules in line with the quality management system

• Develop new and adaptive design of test cases for system and product requirements. Report & verify the test defect logs captured during the testing phase of the assigned product.

• Partner well with a variety of different product stakeholder groups, including management at different levels, business analysts and developer’s community.

• Technically responsible to ensure the mutual consistency and efficient integration of the several subsystems in modular, easy-to-maintain and extendible software that meets the product specification.

• Living Hitachi Energy’s core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

• Bachelor or master’s degree in Electrical / Electronic Engineering with 3-8 years of practical experience in Substation Automation.

• Experience in Substation Automation protocols like IEC 60870-5-101/104, DNP 3.0, IEC 61850 is must.

• Working knowledge in PRP/HSR, PTP, SNTP, SNMP is required.

• Working knowledge of tools such as TFS, ALM, Test management system etc

• Knowledge on various Test automation tools and scripting (Python, C#)

• Knowledge on OOPS concept and Robot automation framework will be added advantage.

• Proficiency in both spoken & written English language is required.