Senior QA Consultant

Responsibilities

• Accountable for the delivery of automated and manual testing to an agreed schedule and acceptable level of quality, reporting to the Test Lead.
• Accountable for test scope and adherence to the published methodology and project controls.
• Accountable for test progress reporting.
• Providing support and guidance to Test Consultants and Test Analysts; ensuring overall delivery of testing day‑by‑day to meet time, quality and budget.
• Planning, delegating, monitoring and controlling the Test Team’s activities in accordance with the Test plan.
• Responsible for ensuring that the Test plan is resourced throughout all phases of the testing lifecycle.
• Ensuring that the testing process is followed, and that all deliverables, milestones, and test phases are accepted.
• Acting as the point of contact for the Test Team and escalating any required actions, issues, or risks to the Project Team/Steering Group.
• Being a point of contact to the junior test team on solution understanding.
• Assessing products and requirements, checking for quality and accuracy.
• Ensuring that scripts are prepared and written to a high quality level.
• Organising and managing test meetings.
• Providing a junior Test Lead role on smaller projects.

• A good understanding of the software test and development process and the business approach.
• Security clearance or eligibility for clearance.
• Demonstrable experience working with Microsoft Dynamics 365.
• Experience in performance testing and Azure load testing using toolsets such as JMeter, Blaze Meter, and k6 – highly desirable.
• Accessibility testing experience desirable.
• Hands‑on experience in Playwright, Selenium Grid & Web Driver C#, SQL, Ruby, Specflow, and Cucumber.
• Experience with AI technologies such as Co‑Pilot.
• JavaScript experience.
• Good exposure to SOAP and REST based APIs.
• Good exposure to Dev Ops / Test Plan APIs.
• Structured and disciplined with good interpersonal skills.
• Ability to produce high‑quality and professional written documentation.
• Good presentation skills.
• Strong conflict resolution and negotiation skills.
• Strong problem‑solving skills.

Hitachi Solutions Europe is a global Digital, Data and Technology consultancy, Microsoft Gold partner and Cloud Services partner, specialising in end‑to‑end transformation. As a global consultancy firm working across the private and public sectors, we specialise in Dynamics 365 Business Applications, Power Platform, including Azure, Application Modernisation and Data & Analytics. Our highly skilled team helps drive improvements, creating efficiency and growth within organisations.

We are committed to Microsoft technologies, with a mission to revolutionise modern businesses. To achieve this we employ the best, most dedicated talent to deliver outstanding technology solutions to both our local and global clients. We place value on collaboration, open communication, and transparency. We emphasise the importance of team spirit, cohesion, and appreciation – and through our talented people, innovative culture and technical and business expertise, we deliver game‑changing outcomes every day.

Our learning culture and flat hierarchy are our recipes for success.

• Competitive compensation packages (including bonuses), pension and benefits plans.
• Work/life balance is an essential part of our culture; all employees are home workers, although you will be expected to come into our or customers’ offices regularly.
• Comprehensive career development programme that includes mentoring and training plans to ensure that you will continue to grow and develop your career at Hitachi.

Diversity is the wellspring of our innovation and our growth engine, and we believe that creativity is fuelled by diversity. To be truly user centric, we need to ensure that the teams developing products and services are representative of the communities they serve. Our collective success is achieved by fostering and respecting our employees’ and customers’ individualities coming together as One Team.

Hitachi strives to create an environment not only where genders, races, cultures, sexual orientations and identities can work together, but where the beliefs and views of those participating feel equally represented. Hitachi Solutions:
Recruiting the best talent and offering outstanding career opportunities ().