Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 1, 2026. First seen by Alion on Aug 12, 2026.
Join Qualus as a QA Test Lead focused on operational technology systems supporting electric distribution and transmission solutions. In this role, you will lead quality assurance efforts for mission-critical utility applications, coordinate testing activities with multiple vendors, and manage the creation and ongoing development of an automated testing framework. You will also be responsible for delivering daily and weekly testing status reports, defining and implementing test strategies, and performing test engineering tasks when needed.
Missions
- Lead and coordinate the testing of software produced by the project delivery team, ensuring quality standards are met for any changes deployed for Utility clients.
- Manage the creation and ongoing development of an automated testing framework for use on the products, and recommend and lead initiatives to improve test processes.
- Communicate with all Stakeholders to ensure project/program goals, targets, activities and schedules are understood, and deliver and communicate daily and weekly Testing status reports for multiple projects.
Profil recherché
- Experience with ADMS/OMS/SCADA/EMS software vendor systems such as OSI Monarch, GE Reliance, GE GridOS, Oracle NMS, etc- Has hands on knowledge of all the following quality assurance methods: unit, integration, regression, UAT, performance and automated testing
- Experience providing end-to-end quality assurance throughout the entire Software Development Life Cycle (waterfall and agile)
- 7 years of work experience in the electric utility industry
- Ability to work independently
- 10 years QA or equivalent work experience with at least 4 years QA Lead with experience with implementation projects
- US citizen or permanent resident
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Systems Engineering, or experience in systems development and/or QA role
- Strong project management and organizational skills
- 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
- Prior experience working within a Testing Center of Excellence (TCOE) or Organizational Test Practice
- Hands on experience with cloud testing tools such as BlazeMeter, OctoPerf
- Hands-on experience with JIRA suite including JIRA Service Desk, and Confluence
- Hands-on experience with HTTP/HTTPS protocol packet sniffers such as TcpDump or Network Monitor
- Hands-on experience working with Linux operating systems (Linux) and Linux performance tuning
- Hand on experience with POC tests, acceptance tests, functional tests, regression tests, smoke
- Hands-on experience with test/QA Automation tools such as Selenium
- Experience with Continuous Integration and Delivery especially integrating automated tests into pipelines
- Experience creating JMeter or LoadRunner performance scripts
- 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 capacity and service level metrics for platform such response time, fail over time, and time to recover
- Familiar with micro-services architecture
- Experience defining and building effective dashboards on system defects
- Familiar with SQL and NoSQL databases
- Strong knowledge of server logfiles, and tools such as Splunk/Sumo Logic/AWS

