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Location: Bengaluru
Company: ABB
Role and Responsibilities
- The R&D Engineer – 800xA & QCS ensures quality, reliability, and performance of ABB’s System 800xA and Quality Control System (QCS) solutions for the Pulp & Paper industry.
- This role requires expertise in process control systems, industrial automation, end-to-end system validation, DCS integration, and QCS control strategies.
- The incumbent serves as an individual contributor with potential to lead a small testing team, ensuring complete traceability from requirements to validation aligned with ABB quality processes and standards.
- Complex system integration, domain-specific QCS validation, balancing manual/automated testing, rapid technology evolution, cross-functional coordination across time zones, maintaining quality under tight deadlines, ensuring traceability and compliance, developing leadership capabilities.
You will be mainly accountable for:
- Develop test strategies, plans, and comprehensive test cases for 800xA and QCS solutions
- Execute functional, system, integration, regression, and scenario-based testing
- Identify, document, and track defects using Azure DevOps
- Perform root cause analysis and verify defect fixes through regression testing
- Ensure adherence to ABB quality processes
- Participate in code/design reviews and quality gate assessments
- Develop and maintain automated test scripts and frameworks
- Skills in automating test creation and execution with modern tools and technologies
- Integrate AI tools into testing
- Apply knowledge of pulp & paper process parameters (basis weight, moisture, caliper)
- Validate QCS control strategies (CD/MD control, scanner systems, actuators)
- Test DCS integration and system behavior under various process conditions
- Conduct cybersecurity testing aligned with IEC 62443 standards
- Validate system integration between System 800xA
- Verify data flow, alarm management, and historical data archiving
- Create test documentation, user manuals, and configuration guides
- Collaborate with R&D teams, product managers, commissioning teams, and customers
- Support customer demos and participate in Agile ceremonies
- Mentor team members and drive continuous improvement initiatives
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s in Electrical/Instrumentation/Electronics Engineering
- 5-10 years in test engineering for industrial automation, DCS/PLC/SCADA systems, with hands-on System 800xA (AC800M, Control Builder, PPA)
- QCS testing experience in pulp & paper or process industries (Preferred)
- System 800xA architecture, AC800M, Control Builder M, PLC programming (IEC 61131-3)
- Testing methodologies: functional, system, integration, regression and simulation
- Tools: Azure DevOps, TFS/Git and test automation frameworks
- Basic Cyber Security understanding
- ISTQB Foundation Level (Preferred)
