Sr Quality Assurance Engineer

Job Description SummaryAs a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, you will play a critical role in ensuring the quality, reliability, performance, and scalability of GE Vernova Grid Software solutions that support transmission, distribution, and energy management operations across utilities worldwide. Leveraging deep expertise in power systems, utility operations, EMS/SCADA applications, and Grid Engineering products, you will lead quality engineering initiatives across complex enterprise software platforms.
The ideal candidate combines strong software testing and quality engineering capabilities with a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering (Power Systems preferred) and hands-on experience validating mission-critical grid applications. You will work closely with product management, development teams, system architects, and domain experts to develop comprehensive test strategies, drive automation adoption, identify product risks early, and ensure high-quality releases for customers operating critical grid infrastructure.
This role requires strong domain expertise in power systems and utility operations, exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, and a passion for delivering world-class Grid Software products that are transforming the future of energy.

Job DescriptionResponsibilities

• Lead quality assurance activities across Grid Software products, ensuring functional, integration, system, performance, and regression testing coverage.
• Develop and execute comprehensive test strategies, test plans, and validation approaches for complex EMS, SCADA, DMS, ADMS, GridOS, and power system applications.
• Collaborate with product managers, developers, solution architects, and power system engineers to understand business requirements and grid operational workflows.
• Apply strong power system domain expertise to validate network modeling, topology processing, state estimation, contingency analysis, outage management, interoperability, and other grid applications.
• Drive automation initiatives using modern test frameworks and CI/CD pipelines to improve test coverage, release quality, and execution efficiency.
• Design and implement automated functional, API, integration, and end-to-end test suites for enterprise-grade Grid Software products.
• Analyze customer-reported issues, reproduce field defects, perform root-cause analysis, and partner with engineering teams to drive resolution.
• Validate software performance, scalability, cybersecurity, reliability, and resiliency requirements for utility-grade deployments.
• Participate in architecture reviews, requirement reviews, and design discussions to ensure quality is built into products from inception.
• Champion quality engineering best practices, shift-left testing methodologies, risk-based testing, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Mentor junior QA engineers and contribute to establishing testing standards, frameworks, and quality processes across teams.
• Support customer deployments, interoperability testing, factory acceptance testing (FAT), and system validation activities for utility customers globally.

Desired Characteristics

• Strong understanding of Power Systems Engineering, utility operations, transmission systems, distribution systems, and control center applications.
• Proven experience working with Grid Engineering products, including EMS, DMS, ADMS, SCADA, GridOS, Network Applications, Market Systems, or related utility software platforms.
• Deep knowledge of software testing methodologies, validation processes, defect lifecycle management, and quality assurance best practices.
• Experience developing automation frameworks and automated test suites using modern tools and programming languages.
• Understanding of utility communication standards and interoperability concepts.
• Strong analytical thinking and ability to evaluate complex power system behaviors and operational scenarios.
• Experience with enterprise software products deployed in mission-critical environments.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with developers, product managers, customers, and power system subject matter experts.
• Excellent root-cause analysis, troubleshooting, debugging, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and leadership capabilities.

Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering (Power Systems preferred).
• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related STEM discipline.
• 5-10+ years of experience in Quality Assurance, Software Testing, Quality Engineering, or related product engineering roles.
• Strong experience validating enterprise software products used in utility, energy, transmission, distribution, or industrial control environments.
• Demonstrated experience working with power system applications, grid operations, EMS, SCADA, DMS, ADMS, GridOS, or similar utility software platforms.
• Experience with test automation tools, scripting, and quality engineering methodologies.

Preferred Experience

• Experience supporting development and testing of Grid Engineering and Energy Management System (EMS) applications.
• Knowledge of transmission network operations, distribution management systems, contingency analysis, state estimation, load flow, network modeling, and grid reliability functions.
• Experience with utility deployment validation, customer acceptance testing, and interoperability testing.
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and test automation frameworks.
• Experience with databases, APIs, messaging systems, and enterprise software architectures.
• Working knowledge of cloud technologies, microservices, containerized applications, and modern software delivery practices.
• Exposure to cybersecurity testing and validation practices for critical infrastructure applications.
• Ability to lead cross-functional quality initiatives and influence product quality across distributed global teams.

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