Sr Quality Assurance Engineer
GE Vernova · Posted Oct 28
Power generation, wind turbine, grid solution, and electrification services
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About the role
GE Vernova Grid Software builds solutions for transmission, distribution, and energy management operations used by utilities worldwide. The role focuses on quality engineering for enterprise grid applications including EMS, SCADA, DMS, ADMS, and GridOS. The Senior Quality Assurance Engineer will lead test strategy, automation, validation, and risk identification across complex power system software releases.
What you will do
- 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.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 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 qualifications
- 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.
- 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.
Benefits and support
- Relocation assistance provided
About GE Vernova
GE Vernova Inc. is a global energy company that provides equipment, services, and software to generate, transfer, orchestrate, convert, and store electricity. Operating through its Power, Wind, and Electrification segments, the company supports a broad customer base across more than 100 countries in powering economies and driving the energy transition. Formed as part of the strategic spin-off of General Electric's energy portfolio, GE Vernova is dedicated to electrifying and decarbonizing the world.
- Industry
- Energy
- Company size
- 75000+ employees
- Founded
- 2024
- Location
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer and President
Stephen F. Angel
Chairman of the Board
Lola Lin
Chief Legal Officer and Secretary
Roger Martella
Chief Corporate Officer, Chief Sustainability Officer & Head of Global Government Affairs
Eric Gray
CEO, Power Segment
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