Sr Quality Assurance Engineer
gevernova
Job Description
- Lead quality assurance activities across Grid Software products, ensuring functional, integration, system, performance, and regression testing coverage.
- Develop and execute comprehensive test strategies, test plans, and validation approaches for complex EMS, SCADA, DMS, ADMS, GridOS, and power system applications.
- Collaborate with product managers, developers, solution architects, and power system engineers to understand business requirements and grid operational workflows.
- Apply strong power system domain expertise to validate network modeling, topology processing, state estimation, contingency analysis, outage management, interoperability, and other grid applications.
- Drive automation initiatives using modern test frameworks and CI/CD pipelines to improve test coverage, release quality, and execution efficiency.
- Design and implement automated functional, API, integration, and end-to-end test suites for enterprise-grade Grid Software products.
- Analyze customer-reported issues, reproduce field defects, perform root-cause analysis, and partner with engineering teams to drive resolution.
- Validate software performance, scalability, cybersecurity, reliability, and resiliency requirements for utility-grade deployments.
- Participate in architecture reviews, requirement reviews, and design discussions to ensure quality is built into products from inception.
- Champion quality engineering best practices, shift-left testing methodologies, risk-based testing, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Mentor junior QA engineers and contribute to establishing testing standards, frameworks, and quality processes across teams.
- Support customer deployments, interoperability testing, factory acceptance testing (FAT), and system validation activities for utility customers globally.
Desired Characteristics
- Strong understanding of Power Systems Engineering, utility operations, transmission systems, distribution systems, and control center applications.
- Proven experience working with Grid Engineering products, including EMS, DMS, ADMS, SCADA, GridOS, Network Applications, Market Systems, or related utility software platforms.
- Deep knowledge of software testing methodologies, validation processes, defect lifecycle management, and quality assurance best practices.
- Experience developing automation frameworks and automated test suites using modern tools and programming languages.
- Understanding of utility communication standards and interoperability concepts.
- Strong analytical thinking and ability to evaluate complex power system behaviors and operational scenarios.
- Experience with enterprise software products deployed in mission-critical environments.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with developers, product managers, customers, and power system subject matter experts.
- Excellent root-cause analysis, troubleshooting, debugging, and problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, and leadership capabilities.