2 days ago
Kochi, IndiaMid Level / Senior
Responsibilities
- Lead functional, regression, integration, system, failure-mode, recovery, and release testing across ESP, HPS, PCP, LACT, and choke applications.
- Create risk-based test plans and traceable test cases from requirements, control narratives, I/O documents, alarm lists, procedures, and release changes.
- Develop simulated testing programs and reusable test harnesses for input/output types, device states, signals, sequences, and functions.
- Use CODESYS and IEC 61131-3 Structured Text to build or modify simulation logic for normal, abnormal, boundary, fault, communications-loss, and recovery scenarios.
- Validate calculations, controls, interlocks, alarms, state transitions, trends, reports, historian data, communications, user interfaces, and data integrity.
- Produce detailed test reports containing status, test cases, expected and actual results, evidence, defects, and remaining risks.
- Investigate and reproduce complex defects across application, controls, configuration, communications, data, and environment layers.
- Lead overnight release validation and regression testing, prioritize findings, and provide complete written handoffs before the U.S. workday.
- Coach and review lower-level QA professionals and improve test coverage, simulation, automation, test data, and defect-prevention practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, electrical engineering, instrumentation, automation, or a related field.
- Typically 3–5 years of relevant software QA, industrial automation, controls, SCADA, or production-software experience at a senior professional level.
- Ability to manage testing projects or processes independently with limited supervision.
- Experience designing simulated I/O and function-testing programs and validating behavior without relying solely on live equipment.
- Strong experience with requirements traceability, defect lifecycle management, root-cause investigation, and release qualification.
- Ability to distinguish software defects from configuration, communications, data, controls, and operational issues.
- Strong technical writing and communication skills covering pass/fail results, expected versus actual behavior, evidence, impact, and actions.
- Ability to coach and review lower-level professionals while maintaining accountability for overnight results.
- Advanced knowledge of functional, integration, regression, system, failure-mode, and release testing.
- Strong CODESYS and IEC 61131-3 Structured Text programming skills for simulation, virtual I/O, test utilities, or control validation.
- Working knowledge of PLC, HMI, SCADA, RTU, VFD, industrial networks, and device communications.
- Experience analyzing application logs, SQL or historian data, communication traces, and automated test results.
- Familiarity with test-management, issue-tracking, Git, scripting, API, or comparable engineering tools.
- Ability to work independently during Kochi off-hours aligned with U.S. Central Time coverage and provide a reliable written handoff.
About NOV Inc.
NOV Inc. is a Houston-based public company (NYSE: NOV) that designs and manufactures equipment, software, and services for oil and gas drilling, completion, production, and industrial lifting and handling. It sells capital equipment, consumables, and aftermarket services to drilling contractors, operators, and service companies worldwide, including automation and control systems used across rigs and production facilities. Formerly known as National Oilwell Varco, the company operates globally with roots in the industry dating back to the 19th century.