IT Quality Assurance/Test Engineer Senior

Functions and Responsibilities

Essential duties and functions, pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act, may include the following. Other related duties may be assigned.

• Assists in creating catalog data for electric utility infrastructure to be used for model analysis by researching and collaborating with engineers, field personnel, and warehouse personnel.
• Assists in interfacing with designers, engineers, and field personnel to ensure accurate and timely modeling of electric utility infrastructure.
• Assists with programming activities such as design and testing of geospatial applications.
• Assists with the research and interpretations of source records and documents.
• Assists with the GIS business process analysis, alternatives development, and making recommendations.
• Responds to requests for information from internal and external customers.
• Assists with the development of GIS analysis and mapping products based on user requirements.
• Assists in incident command during storm mode.

Responsibilities - Supervision and / or Leadership Exercised : May provide leadership, work assignments, evaluation, training, and guidance to others.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Must possess required knowledge, skills, abilities, and experience and be able to explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the essential functions of the job can be performed.

• Knowledge of different types of testing (e.g., functional, performance, and other nonfunctional tests).
• Knowledge of coding practices, concepts and design patterns to create maintainable test frameworks.
• Knowledge of DRY principles (remove and deter the creation of repeating code) and SOLID principles (object-oriented principles to create decoupled, clean code) to create, review and refactor code.
• Knowledge of SLAs, audit, and governing body policies.
• Knowledge of testing frameworks and tools and test automation frameworks.
• Knowledge of types of database structures, types of relationships in a database and types of DBMSs, NoSQL / non-relational databases, and CRUD operations.
• Knowledge of APIs design, use, and maintenance.
• Knowledge of cloud networking capabilities, VPNs, and firewall composition.
• Knowledge of automation of CI / CD infrastructure, and tools, languages, and file formats that will inform tooling decisions in the testing strategy.
• Knowledge of components and orchestration of containerization, tools and methods used for containerization, and how they integrate with testing tools and frameworks.
• Skill in leading testing strategy, functional and non-functional testing, automated testing, quality assurance and performance testing.
• Skill in software development and chaos engineering.
• Ability to collaborate with diverse roles throughout the organization to develop holistic testing strategies and select frameworks.
• Ability to frequently and incrementally deliver applications with high quality and to created effective and meaningful tests by understanding needs of stakeholders.
• Ability to report KPIs and metrics.
• Ability to create, generate and maintain test data and databases and to creatively troubleshoot problems.
• Ability to work with cross functional teams and rapidly acquire new information and skills.
• Ability to adhere to required compliance to all change management policies and procedures.
• Ability to adhere to required compliance to all information security policies and procedures.

Criminal Background Investigation This position has been approved for a Criminal Background Investigation.