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Position Purpose/Summary

Provides ownership of Test architect, Test Strategy & Product Quality across different Gas metering product and Meter data management systems.

Key Areas of Responsibility

• Gets involved in Requirement reviews to ensure completeness of Deployment scenarios, Use cases & Testability aspects of Functional & Non-Functional requirements using his/her Domain, Product & Functional Test knowledge.

• Works within the scrum team to build the quality product along with development team

• Develops/Contribute towards verification of the product against acceptance criteria.

• Contribute towards Test Design for critical modules of the products and supports the Test Engineers in Test Design reviews

• Works with the System Architect to mitigate the architectural risks of the program in early phases & participates in design reviews to identify failure modes

• Develops Test Strategy to validate the Functional, Non-Functional & System level requirements for Smart Gas and Electrical Meter related products

• Derives Regression Test Strategy based on Impact Analysis of fixed defects and automation test strategy for overall products, supports continuous integration and delivery / deployment along with development team.

• Identifies Test Automation & Simulation requirements early in the life cycle & supports in execution of the same

• Prepares Test Strategy for 3rd party integrations & dependant hardware, Firmware, E to E and compatibility tests.

• Maintains test infrastructure for security, performance/scale, usability testing of embedded software products.

• Works with required stakeholders to identify Beta Site requirements & supports in defect prioritization & release readiness reviews along with the Project Lead

• Works with the Information Development team to give pointers on Technical Literature content development and is a critical reviewer of the same

• Provides debug support to Development Team to identify root causes of defects

• Monitors release quality criteria and communicates unbiased product quality view to stakeholders to enable quality release of the product/system.

• Mentors other members of the team on technical aspects, test methodologies, new technologies etc.
Business Acumen

• Participates in Observation Voice of Customer (OVoC) and in Concept reviews in early phases of Product Development Life Cycle as needed

• Stays up to date with happenings in the Industry & Competition space of the relevant business verticals and driving best practices in Smart Meter testing.
Participation/representation in external or industry leading seminars, technical conferences

Qualifications/ Experience/ Knowledge

• Bachelor or Master of Engineering in Electronics & Communication, Electrical & Electronics or Instrumentation

• Minimum of 5+ years of experience in Test architect, System engineering/testing in relevant industry space

• Minimum of 10+ years of test experience in Smart meters and various metering communication related products

• Total 12+ years of experience in Smart Electricity, Smart Gas, Smart Water Metering and related products experience.
Technical Skills

• Should have good understanding of Agile methodologies and SDLC/STLC process

• Hands on experience in testing on various Smart Meter products like Smart Electrical Meter, Smart Gas Meter, Water Meter and associated applications from hardware, Firmware, Application software and End to End system testing

• Prior experience on performance & Capacity testing of Industrial Meter, Electrical meter is a plus

• Experienced with industry standards like AGA 8 for Gas Meters.

• Experience on Security threat models and security testing on embedded products

• Expertise in various communication products based on Low Power Radio, GPRS, LoRa, Mbus, PLC etc.

• Knowledge of communication protocols (TCP/IP; IPV6; Smart metering; M2M Cellular, DLMS) and Embedded Linux development or Embedded RTOS.

• Exposure to Acceptance Test Driven development (ATDD)

• Aid in the design and development of test equipment and test systems, test beds to fulfil the needs of testing of various embedded products.

• Should have hands on experience on developing test automation scripts for firmware testing

• Experience with different test automation, DevOps and defect tracking tools is must

• Test Certification- ISTQB or equivalent, Scrum Alliance

• Experience of CMMi or other process evaluation regime.

Professional Skills / Knowledge

• Good analytical thinking, troubleshooting & problem solving skills, coupled with the drive to learn

• Good communication skills, both verbal and written

• Self-motivated and the ability to work independently without supervision and sometimes under extreme pressure

• Prepared to travel domestic or overseas as per project or business needs

• Ability to work together with different functional & delivery teams

• Handling Multi-Disciplinary project will be an added advantage

• Demonstrates Influencing skills to articulate independent Product Quality view

• Right level of Negotiation skills & conflict management capability

• Ability to coach and mentor teams

Experience working as part of a global development team working across diverse cultural barriers

Additional Information

• JOB ID: HRD261099
• Category: Engineering
• Location: Lot 115 (P),Nanakramguda Village,,Serilinganpally Madndal, RR District,Hyderabad,TELANGANA STATE,500019,India
• Exempt

Engineering (EMEA)