Quality Assurance Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Texas.

📋 Description

• Lead and oversee the testing of software developed by the project delivery team for utility clients.

• Develop test strategies and assist project teams in implementing changes.

• Champion QA best practices and spearhead automation initiatives.

• Direct QA efforts for high-profile projects that involve multiple work streams.

• Coordinate testing activities across various vendors.

• Generate test estimates, strategies, plans, status reports, results, risk documentation, traceability, defect management, and test coverage.

• Manage numerous tasks while upholding high-quality standards.

• Analyze intricate technical and conceptual information and translate it into understandable alternatives for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Adhere to PMO and Test Practice documentation, policies, and best practices.

• Engage with stakeholders concerning project objectives, targets, activities, and timelines.

• Provide daily and weekly testing status updates, including risk identification.

• Oversee the creation and continuous development of an automated testing framework.

• Suggest and lead initiatives for test-process improvements and mentor team members.

• Define, develop, and implement the product QA strategy across all stages of product development.

• Ensure the viability, functionality, and efficiency of testing tools.

• Establish and execute test strategies to ensure maximum test coverage.

• Coordinate the use and upkeep of testing environments.

• Create and execute test cases as necessary.

• Generate test coverage reports for every software release.

• Document detailed defects.

⛳️ Requirements

• 7 years of professional experience in the electric utility sector.

• 10 years of QA or equivalent work experience, including a minimum of 4 years as a QA Lead with implementation project experience.

• Familiarity with ADMS/OMS/SCADA/EMS software vendor systems such as OSI Monarch, GE Reliance, GE GridOS, and Oracle NMS.

• Comprehensive quality assurance experience throughout the Software Development Life Cycle, including both waterfall and agile methodologies.

• Practical knowledge of unit, integration, regression, UAT, performance, and automated testing.

• Strong project management and organizational capabilities.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Ability to work autonomously.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Systems Engineering, or relevant experience in systems development and/or QA roles.

• Must be a US citizen or permanent resident.

• Five years of experience in cybersecurity-related test development and new product development.

• Experience in QA for SaaS software that supports SOC 2 trust services principles.

• Background in a Testing Center of Excellence (TCOE) or Organizational Test Practice.

• Hands-on experience with tools such as BlazeMeter, OctoPerf, TcpDump, Network Monitor, JIRA, Confluence, Linux, Selenium, JMeter, LoadRunner, Continuous Integration and Delivery, Bitbucket, SQL, NoSQL, Splunk, Sumo Logic, and AWS.

• Experience with POC, acceptance, functional, regression, and smoke testing.

• Proficient in creating performance scripts.

• Familiarity with source configuration management and defect tracking systems.

• Experience in writing scripts to generate defect lists/job execution.

• Capability to define capacity and service-level metrics.

• Experience in building dashboards for system defects.

• Understanding of microservices architecture and server log files.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical insurance.

• Dental insurance.

• Vision insurance.

• Life insurance.

• Short- and long-term disability.

• 401(k) matching.

• Flexible Spending Accounts.

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

• Parental leave.

• Paid time off.

• Holidays.