SDET - (Python, Selenium Automation)

You will be joining Hitachi Vantara, a global data foundation trusted by innovators worldwide, where you will play a crucial role as a Specialist Software Quality Engineer within a fast-paced and highly collaborative engineering team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, developing, qualifying, and supporting scalable software applications and systems. Your primary focus will be on working closely with your scrum team members to translate requirements into test cases, functional specifications, technical designs, and implementations. As a key member of the team, you will lead and participate in defining, implementing, and testing user stories while driving the technical direction for the testing of a complex data mobility system. Your role will require you to advocate strongly for the quality of the product by leading in the competency of your scrum team and the organization. Additionally, you will be tasked with creating, running, and maintaining White Box and Black Box test suites to ensure regression coverage and software quality, with a particular emphasis on automation. To excel in this role, you should bring a minimum of 6+ years of functional testing and automation experience, along with at least 3+ years of experience as a Test Lead. You must possess a strong understanding of functional test concepts, test metrics, and have worked on applications involving UI (Web or Windows). Proficiency in Python, OO Concepts, and Database concepts is essential, as is experience in leading and managing teams of manual QA and Automation resources. Your expertise should also include designing and developing frameworks (such as the page object model), test planning, strategy, and estimation. Moreover, your skills should encompass automation using tools like Selenium, JUnit, TestNG, cucumber, as well as hands-on experience in API testing using tools like RESTClient, REST Easy, Postman, CURL, HTTPie, among others. Familiarity with Unix/Linux environments, application servers, CI/CD processes, and source control tools like GIT/SVN will be beneficial for this role. A good grasp of software development lifecycles and methodologies, especially Agile/Scrum, is crucial. Having an educational background in computer science or a related field, such as a Bachelors or Masters degree, is required. This opportunity will allow you to work closely with a diverse and global team of innovators, where your contributions will help drive meaningful customer outcomes and shape the future of data-driven solutions. Hitachi Vantara is committed to fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion within its culture, where diverse perspectives and empowered thinking lead to impactful results. The company provides industry-leading benefits, support, and services to ensure your holistic health and wellbeing, along with flexible work arrangements that promote life balance. By joining Hitachi Vantara, you will embark on a journey of innovation, collaboration, and personal growth, surrounded by talented individuals who share a passion for driving positive change through technology.,