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Job Description Summary

This role is responsible for designing Testing Strategy and implementation of highly complex product integration scenarios. The role involves gaining a deep understanding of multiple software products across the entire grid software portfolio, working with domain experts and customers to understand real-life scenarios and then working with the team to get these test cases automated. This role is highly visible and critical in driving quality of solutions to our customers with a chance to understand the entire breadth of the grid software ecosystem.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• Understand the landscape of products in the portfolio and develop comprehensive test strategy for integrations across these products

• Ensure effective test automation is developed to speed up validation processes

• Work with product owners and directly with customers to analyze and translate the analysis into test scenarios to be executed

• Provide expertise in Design, Architecture, Development and Shipping from Quality Engineering perspective

• Lead impact assessment of decisions related to Quality Engineering plan and end to end strategy for releases

• Provide expertise, oversight, mentor team members and lead quality initiatives in large development efforts

• Demonstrate deep understanding of competitive landscape, latest trends and technologies in Quality Engineering.

• Demonstrate the ability of benchmarking against competition.

• Provides subject matter expertise in quality engineering processes and methodologies with ability to adapt and improvise in various situations.

• Navigate through ambiguity, prioritizes conflicting asks and shows ability to adapt to changing project situations

• Demonstrate expert level skills in collaborating with different stakeholders, Influencing decisions and an ability to take strategic view.

• Lead Quality Engineering efforts across the product version(s)

• Provide expertise in continuous integration process and test automation while mentoring and training team members in the process.

Education Qualification

For roles outside USA: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) with significant experience.

For roles in USA: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)

Experience: Minimum years of experience 12+ years

Desired Characteristic

Technical Expertise:

• Brings a good understanding of the grid, preferably worked in an electric utility or expertise in power systems

• Has experience working on a GE Vernova or a competitor's transmission or distribution product

• Has experience in test automation

• Has experience with issue-tracking and agile project management systems

• Expert in developing and executing maintainable automation tests for acceptance, functional, and regression test cases.

• Skilled in integrating project testing with continuous-integration process.

Business Acumen:

• Demonstrates the ability of benchmarking against competition.

• Brings a good understanding of the grid business to the table

• Demonstrates an understanding of competitive landscape, latest trends and technologies in Quality Engineering.

Leadership:

• Navigates through ambiguity, prioritizes conflicting asks and shows ability to adapt to changing project situations. Able to delegate tasks effectively.

• Influences through others; builds direct and "behind the scenes" support for ideas. Pre-empts downstream consequences and effectively tailors strategy to support a positive outcome. Uses experts or other third parties to influence.

• Proactively identifies and removes project obstacles or barriers on behalf of the team. Able to navigate accountability in a matrixed organization. Communicates and demonstrates a shared sense of purpose. Learns from failure.

• Influences and energizes other toward the common vision and goal. Maintains excitement for a process and drives to new directions of meeting the goal even when odds and setbacks render one path impassable.

Personal Attributes:

• Able to effectively direct and mentor others in critical thinking skills. Proactively engages with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and design solutions. Utilizes critical thinking, analytical abilities and best practices. Finds important patterns in seemingly unrelated information.

• Innovates and integrates new processes and/or technology to significantly add value to GE. Identifies how the cost of change weighs against the benefits and advises accordingly. Proactively learns new solutions and processes to address seemingly unanswerable problems.

• Able to communicate what is the reasoning of decisions and downstream implications. Reflects on success and failures to improve performance and future decision-making. Understands when change is needed. Participates in technical strategy planning.

Note

Note:

To comply with US immigration and other legal requirements, it is necessary to specify the minimum number of years' experience required for any role based within the USA. For roles outside of the USA, to ensure compliance with applicable legislation, the JDs should focus on the substantive level of experience required for the role and a minimum number of years should NOT be used.

This Job Description is intended to provide a high level guide to the role. However, it is not intended to amend or otherwise restrict/expand the duties required from each individual employee as set out in their respective employment contract and/or as otherwise agreed between an employee and their manager.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No