Essential Responsibilities

• Define and own the end-to-end quality strategy, test plans, validation approach, and release readiness criteria for Transmission Heritage Products.
• Lead system, integration, regression, performance, and customer workflow testing across complex power transmission software solutions.
• Drive defect prevention and reduction initiatives through robust quality processes, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement programs.
• Partner closely with Engineering, Product Management, Services, and Customer Support teams to ensure successful product deliveries and customer deployments.
• Lead defect triage activities, prioritize quality risks, track quality metrics, and provide clear recommendations to leadership teams.
• Champion test automation adoption and expansion, including automation framework strategy and implementation using modern tools such as Playwright where applicable.

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong understanding of electric power systems, transmission operations, EMS, SCADA, WAMS, network applications, or related utility software domains.
• Proven experience in quality assurance, validation, and solution testing for large-scale enterprise software products.
• Experience creating comprehensive test strategies, test plans, test cases, traceability matrices, and quality metrics.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with the ability to investigate complex defects across distributed systems and integrated solutions.
• Experience working in Agile development environments with cross-functional global teams.
• Hands-on experience with test automation concepts and frameworks; knowledge of Playwright, API testing, and CI/CD-integrated test automation is highly desirable.

Desired Characteristics

• Customer-focused mindset with a strong sense of ownership and accountability for product quality and customer success.
• Ability to influence across organizations and drive quality initiatives without direct authority.
• Strong leadership skills with experience mentoring engineers and fostering a quality-first engineering culture.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, capable of effectively interacting with technical teams, product leaders, and customers.
• Data-driven decision maker who leverages metrics and insights to improve product quality, productivity, and release outcomes.
• Continuous learner with a passion for innovation, process improvement, automation, and operational excellence.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline with 12+ years of experience.
• Prior experience with GE Vernova or other utility Transmission Management System (TMS), EMS, WAMS, SCADA, or network application products.
• Familiarity with transmission heritage products, utility operations, and grid reliability workflows.
• Experience supporting customer deployments, site acceptance testing (SAT), factory acceptance testing (FAT), and production issue management.
• Exposure to cloud technologies, microservices architectures, and modern software quality engineering practices.
• Knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and automated quality gates.