Senior Testing Manager

The opportunity

At Hitachi Energy, we’re advancing a sustainable energy future—and quality is at the core of everything we do. We are looking for a driven Senior Testing Manager to lead our Quality Control team at Grid Automation.

You’ll be responsible for guiding engineers toward clear goals and ensuring delivery excellence. The ideal candidate combines strategic thinking with hands-on leadership, understands how to align team capabilities with business needs, and fosters a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.

If this sounds like a challenge you’d like to be part of, we encourage you to send in your application.

How you’ll make an impact

Define, develop, and implement product quality assurance strategy across SCADA, EMS, and Transmission domains.

Lead the Quality Control team, including recruitment, onboarding, supervision, and performance evaluations.

Develop team capabilities through supervision, training, mentoring, and career development.

Coordinate with Program and Development Managers to assign QC team members with the right skills to programs.

Oversee creation and execution of test strategies and plans, ensuring effective testing throughout the SDLC.

Drive cross-functional testing engagement with stakeholders like Professional Services, Support, and Pre-Sales.

Ensure readiness of environments, equipment, personnel, and tools for testing, including minor releases.

Report test progress, escalate delays, support CI/CD and QA initiatives, track costs, and ensure test cases reflect customer workflows.

Your background

Degree in computer science, engineering, or related field

Proven experience in software QA, as well as in management

Hands-on experience with test automation frameworks

Familiarity with microservice-based distributed systems

Knowledge of C#, DevOps, Kubernetes, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Keycloak, Docker, Swagger, JSON, REST

Strong analytical skills and experience with QA metrics and criteria

Skilled in problem solving, communication, proj