QA Team Lead in Johnstone

As one of the largest investor-owned utility companies in the United States, PPL Corporation (NYSE: PPL) is committed to creating long-term, sustainable value for our 3.5 million customers, our shareowners and the communities we serve. Our high-performing regulated utilities provide an outstanding experience for our customers, consistently ranking among the best utilities in the nation. PPL’s companies are also addressing challenges head-on by investing in new infrastructure and technology that is creating a smarter, more reliable and resilient energy grid.

The QA Team Lead is responsible for developing quality assurance processes and procedures, directing quality assurance teams, identifying bugs and issues, maintaining documentation, managing testing schedules, and coordinating bug fixes with development teams among other responsibilities. They are accountable for creating, executing, and documenting tests necessary to ensure applications and technical environments meet performance requirements (technical and functional), and are free from defects. They are expected to be proficient in a variety of QA technologies, processes, and scripting languages.

Responsibilities:

• Advance in-depth emerging technology and software testing/delivery knowledge.
• Designs a testing strategy that brings together the best fits in practices, platforms, and tools (Cucumber, Selenium, etc.).
• Works in close collaboration with Translators and Integrators to assist in the automation of test preparation and execution activities to ensure constant continuous improvement to productivity and efficiency.
• Conducts quality-control tests and analyzes to ensure that software meets or exceeds specified standards and end-user requirements.
• Develops detailed test strategies and plans for modified systems based on technical and business specifications in accordance with company standards.
• Tests and analyzes each component/phase of the systems development life cycle including the project requirements, design, and programs.
• Work in an iterative/Agile environment and be a strong team player.
• Retests corrections to ensure problems are resolved.
• Documents and communicates results.
• Contract Management and on-boarding of all third-party vendors.
• Budgeting/Forecasting.
• Manages and mentors test engineers.
• May be assigned an Electric Utilities emergency and storm role.

Qualifications:

• Basic Qualifications: Bachelor's degree and 7 years of related work experience OR 11 years of related work experience.
• Awareness of ITIL standards and best practice within operational environments.
• Excitement, curiosity, and passion for shaping the future through digital technology.
• Knowledge of QA process and methodologies and Software Development Life Cycle Experience.
• Ability to effectively adapt to rapid technological and business change while maintaining enthusiasm and displaying sound judgment.
• Strong problem solving and analytics skills to be able to develop testing solutions that identify software development problems quickly.
• Ability to collaborate with internal and external teams to unblock critical issues during software development lifecycle.
• Experience with automated regression test tools and building and maintaining the automated test scripts.
• Experience with writing and maintaining test cases, test plans and test scripts.

Preferred Qualifications:

• ITIL V2 or V3 Foundations Certifications.
• Six Sigma Black Belt.
• Ability to collaborate with team members across different functional domains and technologies.
• Utilities industry experience.
• Self-starter mentality.
• Excellent interpersonal relations skills.