Loadrunner Performance Testing Jobs in Texas (NOW HIRING)

Position Overview
Power your future with Qualus as a QA Test Lead focused on operational technology systems supporting electric distribution and/or transmission solutions such as ADMS, EMS, OMS, DERMS, etc. In this role, you will lead quality assurance efforts for mission-critical utility applications, including testing of integrated grid operations platforms, interfaces, and workflows that support reliable, secure, and resilient system performance in complex utility environments.
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 changes. 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 with 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 ongoing 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 strategies 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.

#LI-MG1
Qualifications

• 7 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 with ADMS/OMS/SCADA/EMS software vendor systems such as OSI Monarch, GE Reliance, GE GridOS, Oracle NMS, etc.
• Experience providing end-to-end quality assurance throughout the entire Software Development Life Cycle (waterfall and agile).
• Has hands on knowledge of all the following quality assurance methods: unit, integration, regression, UAT, performance and automated testing.
• Strong project management and organizational skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Systems Engineering, or experience in 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.
• 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 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 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 final salary awarded for this role may vary from the above range based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs. The salary range provided in this job posting may be subject to change for business purposes.
Company Overview
Qualus is a leading pure-play power solutions firm and innovator at the forefront of power infrastructure 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 over 1,800 professionals, with offices throughout the U.S. and Canada.
EEO Statement
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.
If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process or are limited in the ability or unable to access or use this online application process, and need an alternative method for applying, please email careers@qualuscorp.com.