Sr Quality Assurance Engineer

Location: Hyderabad

Job Description Summary

As a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, you will play a critical role in ensuring the quality, reliability, performance, and scalability of GE Vernova Grid Software solutions that support transmission, distribution, and energy management operations across utilities worldwide. Leveraging deep expertise in power systems, utility operations, EMS/SCADA applications, and Grid Engineering products, you will lead quality engineering initiatives across complex enterprise software platforms.

The ideal candidate combines strong software testing and quality engineering capabilities with a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering (Power Systems preferred) and hands-on experience validating mission-critical grid applications. You will work closely with product management, development teams, system architects, and domain experts to develop comprehensive test strategies, drive automation adoption, identify product risks early, and ensure high-quality releases for customers operating critical grid infrastructure.

This role requires strong domain expertise in power systems and utility operations, exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, and a passion for delivering world-class Grid Software products that are transforming the future of energy.

Responsibilities

• 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.