ADMS Quality Assurance Lead, Qualus

• 7 years of work experience in the electric utility industry
• 10 years QA or equivalent work experience with at least 4 years QA Lead with experience with implementation projects
• Experience with ADMS/OMS/SCADA/EMS software vendor systems such as OSI Monarch, GE Reliance, GE GridOS, Oracle NMS, etc
• Experience providing end-to-end quality assurance throughout the entire Software Development Life Cycle (waterfall and agile)
• Has hands on knowledge of all the following quality assurance methods: unit, integration, regression, UAT, performance and automated testing
• Strong project management and organizational skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work independently
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Systems Engineering, or experience in systems development and/or QA role
• US citizen or permanent resident

Desirable

• Power your future with Qualus as a QA Test Lead focused on operational technology systems supporting electric distribution and/or transmission solutions such as ADMS, EMS, OMS, DERMS, etc
• In this role, you will lead quality assurance efforts for mission-critical utility applications, including testing of integrated grid operations platforms, interfaces, and workflows that support reliable, secure, and resilient system performance in complex utility environments
• Lead and coordinate the testing of software produced by the project delivery team, ensuring quality standards are met for any changes deployed for our Utility clients. Prepare test strategies and support project teams in the delivery of new changes. Be the advocate for QA best practices and lead initiatives such as automation
• Lead the QA effort for a highly visible and impacting project with multiple work streams. Includes: coordinating testing activities with multiple vendors, test estimation, delivery of test strategy, test plan, test status, results, risk, traceability, defect management, test coverage, etc
• Work multiple tasks at any one time while maintaining high quality standards
• Absorbing complex technical and conceptual information, identifying key issues and details, and presenting understandable alternatives to both technical and nontechnical individuals at all levels of the organization
• Conform and comply with all PMO and Test Practice documentation, policies, and best practices
• Communicate with all Stakeholders to ensure project/program goals, targets, activities and schedules are understood
• Responsible for delivering and communicating daily and weekly Testing status reports for multiple projects including risk identification
• Manage the creation and ongoing development of an automated testing framework for use on the products
• Recommend and lead initiatives to improve test processes and develop team members to improve efficiency
• Provides necessary definition, development and deployment of product quality assurance strategy, addressing all phases of product development
• Assures the viability, functionality, and effectiveness of test tools
• Define and implement test strategies to ensure maximum test coverage
• Coordinate the use and maintenance of test environments for systems supporting the needs of all projects
• Perform test engineering tasks when needed, including creating and executing test cases
• Provides Test Coverage reports to stakeholders for each software release
• Report detailed defect reports