**Company Description**
Hitachi Solutions is a global Microsoft solutions integrator passionate about developing and delivering industry-focused solutions that support our clients to deliver on their business transformation goals. Our industry focus, expertise, and intellectual property is what truly sets us apart. We have earned, and continue to maintain, a strategic relationship with Microsoft. Recognized for our achievements - teaming with our clients to deliver innovative digital solutions and services - is how we have achieved year after year recognition.
A part of Hitachi, Ltd., our company has a long and rich history of innovation, financial strength, and international presence of one of the world's largest companies. Since 1910, Hitachi, Ltd. has been a leader in manufacturing innovative products and solutions that support industry and social infrastructure around the globe supported by 303,000 employees in over 100 countries and across 864 companies.
**PLEASE NOTE**:you must reside**, and be authorized to work without sponsorship, in Costa Rica.
**Additional note**:The Automation Software Engineer in Test should have at least 5 years of relevant experience, Senior levels at 5 plus years. Below are the minimum requirements for the roles we are currently seeking to fill.
As part of the Quality Assurance Team you will be responsible for:
- Supporting all quality assurance tasks, test plan preparation, test cases for customizations, extensions, configurations, and integrations.
- Performing Performance Testing, secondary responsibilities for functional, integration, and regression testing.
- Creating test plans and detailed test cases using Azure DevOps or similar tool (preferably Azure DevOps)
- Documenting any defects found during the daily testing activities and track them to resolution.
- Supporting DevOps development teams test planning and execution, and code reviews.
- Participating in release activities and post-release support activities.
- Supporting user story mapping, sprint planning, estimation, and feature walk-throughs.
- Participating in user acceptance testing and maintenance of documentation.
- Reviewing the test plan implications of Change Requests.
- Contribute to/prepare ad-hoc reports and presentations for PMO, Clients etc.
- Maintaining current with industry best practices with regards to testing and test automation
- Remaining current with all Micrososft technologies and potential system implications related to Vendor release upgrades
**Qualifications**
**Minimum Requirements**
- At least a Bachelor's Degree in computer science, engineering, or a related discipline is highly preferred (work experience in lieu of a degree will be considered) with 5 or more years of professional experience **is** **required**:
- Knowledgeable in Agile methods and ceremonies
- Demonstrated experience developing software test plans & test cases
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
**Automation Skills that would be a plus**:
- SpecFlow with Selenium using BDD (Behavior Driven Development) is highly preferred; other commercial or open source automated test tools will be considered in lieu of
- Understanding Gherkin Language and Cucumber
- Basics knowledge on Object-Oriented Programming
- Coding skills in C# and/or Java Script
- Knowledge on SQL and API testing
**Desired/"nice to have" Qualifications**
- Industry testing certifications
- D365 certifications, classes, or exams
- Azure certifications, classes, or exams
**Additional Information**
We are an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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