Quality Assurance Lead

Position Overview

Power your future with Qualus as a Quality Assurance Lead. The Quality Assurance Lead will work remotely and help with software application and cloud-hosted Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications that enable secure data exchange in the utility industry.

Responsibilities

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 change. 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 to 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 on-going 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 strategy 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.

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Qualifications

10 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 providing end-to-end quality assurance throughout the entire Software Development Life Cycle (waterfall and agile).

Has hands on knowledge of all of the following quality assurance methods : unit, integration, regression, UAT, performance and automated testing.

Must have experience testing SaaS products.

Strong project management and organizational skills.

Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Ability to work independently.

Prior experience working within a TCOE or Organizational Test Practice.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Systems Engineering, or experience in a systems development and / or QA role.

US citizen or permanent resident

Desired Qualifications

Five years of experience with cyber security industry related test development and new product development.

Experience performing QA functions that ensure that SaaS software supports the five trust services principles of SOC 2 compliance : Security, Availability, Processing Integrity, Confidentiality and Privacy.

Hands on experience with cloud testing tools such as BlazeMeter, OctoPerf

Hands-on experience with HTTP / HTTPS protocol packet sniffers such as TcpDump or Network Monitor

Hands-on experience with JIRA suite including JIRA Service Desk, and Confluence

Hands-on experience working with Linux operating systems (Linux) and Linux performance tuning

Hands-on experience with test / QA Automation tools such as Selenium

Hand on experience with POC tests, acceptance tests, functional tests, regression tests, smoke

Experience creating JMeter or LoadRunner performance scripts.

Experience with Continuous Integration and Delivery especially integrating automated tests into pipelines.

Experience with source configuration management and defect tracking systems (such as Bitbucket and Jira).

Experience writing and building scripts to create defect list / job execution

Experience defining and building performance metrics for a SAAS platform application and specific modules.

Experience defining and building capacity and service level metrics for platform such response time, fail over time, and time to recover.

Experience defining and building effective dashboards on system defects

Familiar with micro-services architecture

Familiar with SQL and NoSQL databases

Strong knowledge of server logfiles, and tools such as Splunk / Sumo Logic / AWS.

Benefits & Compensation

Qualus benefits offered include Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short and Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, EAP, Parental Leave, Paid time off, and Holidays, for those who qualify.

The expected compensation range for this position is based upon several factors, including but not limited toeducation, qualifications, prior relevant work experience and work location.

Company Overview

Qualus is a leading pure-play power services firm and innovator at the forefront of the energy transition and transformation, with differentiated capabilities across grid modernization, resiliency, security, and sustainability. The firm partners with utilities, commercial, industrial, data center, and government clients, and renewable and energy storage developers, offering comprehensive solutions through boutique and integrated advisory, planning, engineering, digital solutions, program management, and specialized field services. Qualus also provides software and technology enabled services and develops breakthrough solutions for critical power industry challenges such as distributed and variable resource integration, emergency management, and secure data exchange. The firm has nearly 1,600 professionals, with offices throughout the U.S. and Canada.

EEO

At Qualus, we believe everyone has value; and that the diversity and inclusion among our teams is what sets us apart for optimal success. We put people first because we care. To view a copy of the Qualus Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Policy Statement, click here.

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Job Locations US-TX-Austin

ID 2025-4310

Category Digital Solutions

Position Type Regular Full Time

Remote : Yes

Salary Range $110K-$120K