Quality Assurance Lead

• Lead and coordinate software testing for changes delivered to utility clients • Prepare test strategies and support project teams delivering new changes • Advocate for QA best practices and lead automation initiatives • Lead QA for high-visibility projects with multiple workstreams • Coordinate testing with multiple vendors and manage test estimation, plans, status, results, risk, traceability, defects, and coverage • Manage multiple tasks while maintaining quality standards • Analyze complex technical and conceptual information and present understandable alternatives to technical and nontechnical stakeholders • Ensure compliance with PMO and Test Practice documentation, policies, and best practices • Communicate project goals, targets, activities, and schedules to stakeholders • Deliver daily and weekly testing status reports and identify risks across multiple projects • Create and develop an automated testing framework • Lead process-improvement initiatives and develop team members • Define, develop, and deploy product QA strategy across all product-development phases • Assess the viability, functionality, and effectiveness of test tools • Define and implement test strategies for maximum test coverage • Coordinate test environments for systems supporting project needs • Create and execute test cases as needed • Provide test coverage reports for each software release • Report detailed defects Requirements 7 years of work experience in the electric utility industry 10 years of QA or equivalent work experience At least 4 years of QA Lead experience with implementation projects Experience with ADMS/OMS/SCADA/EMS vendor systems such as OSI Monarch, GE Reliance, GE GridOS, and Oracle NMS End-to-end QA experience throughout the Software Development Life Cycle, including waterfall and agile Hands-on knowledge of 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, or Systems Engineering, or experience in systems development and/or QA US citizen or permanent resident Five years of cyber security industry-related test development and new product development experience preferred Experience with SaaS QA supporting SOC 2 trust services principles preferred Experience with Testing Center of Excellence or Organizational Test Practice preferred Hands‑on experience with BlazeMeter or OctoPerf preferred Hands‑on experience with TcpDump or Network Monitor preferred Hands‑on experience with JIRA, JIRA Service Desk, and Confluence preferred Hands‑on experience with Linux operating systems and performance tuning preferred Hands‑on experience with Selenium and other QA automation tools preferred Experience with POC, acceptance, functional, regression, and smoke testing preferred Experience creating JMeter or LoadRunner performance scripts preferred Experience with Continuous Integration and Delivery and integrating automated tests into pipelines preferred Experience with Bitbucket, Jira, source configuration management, and defect tracking systems preferred Experience writing scripts for defect lists and job execution preferred Experience defining capacity and service-level metrics such as response time, failover time, and time to recover preferred Experience building dashboards for system defects preferred Familiarity with microservices architecture preferred Familiarity with SQL and NoSQL databases preferred Strong knowledge of server logfiles and tools such as Splunk, Sumo Logic, and AWS preferred Core Competencies Demonstrates extensive experience in leading QA processes and automation initiatives within the electric utility industry, ensuring compliance with best practices and delivering high-quality software solutions. Proficient in managing complex testing environments and communicating effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Highest-signal resume keywords QA Lead Experience Electric Utility Industry Experience Automated Testing Framework Development End-to-End QA Experience Project Management Skills ATS Optimization Keywords Hard Skills Software Development Life Cycle Unit Testing Integration Testing Regression Testing Performance Testing Automated Testing Test Strategy Development Test Case Creation Defect Reporting Test Coverage Analysis Soft Skills Strong Verbal Communication Strong Written Communication Organizational Skills Ability to Work Independently Industry Keywords ADMS OMS SCADA EMS SOC 2 Trust Services Principles Testing Center of Excellence Cyber Security Microservices Architecture SQL NoSQL Tools & Technologies Selenium JIRA Confluence BlazeMeter OctoPerf TcpDump Network Monitor Linux Operating Systems JMeter LoadRunner #J-18808-Ljbffr