Software Quality Assurance and Testing Engineering Leader

Location: Madrid, Massy, Hyderabad, Zamudio, Montpellier

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Job Description Summary

Grid Automation offers its customers a complete range of innovative products, systems and services covering design and manufacture, as well as commissioning and long-term maintenance of Substation Protection and Automation solutions. This includes, amongst others, Protection relays, control systems, cyber security solutions, device management, asset performance, and many more. Grid Automation Software in the boundaries of Grid technologies, embedded software and advanced analytics solutions. If you’re passionate about Software and want to work on improving Grid resilience through Software, this is the job for you.

We are looking for a Software Quality Assurance and Testing Engineering Leader to join the GridBeats™ team. The GridBeats™ Software Portfolio is aggregating all Grid Automation applications which monitor, optimize and manage grid connected devices. It is very complex and exciting portfolio which is setting the basis for grid connected devices management for the future.

The Software Quality Assurance and Testing Engineering Leader will head the QA & Testing team across GridBeats™ setting the roadmap for quality assurance and testing, and ensuring that we implement a world-class Software Quality Assurance best practices.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Define and drive the overall Quality Assurance and Testing strategy across the GridBeats™ software portfolio, covering embedded software, backend/server applications, and system integrations.
• Establish and continuously improve software quality processes, testing methodologies, and best practices across development teams.
• Define testing strategies across the full software development lifecycle, including requirements validation, unit testing, integration testing, system testing, and release testing.
• Define guidelines and best practices for test case design, test coverage, traceability, and test documentation across teams.
• Drive test automation strategy and ensure automated testing is integrated into CI/CD pipelines.
• Define release quality criteria, quality gates, and testing requirements for software releases.
• Establish and track software quality metrics such as defect leakage, test coverage, automation coverage, release stability, and field defect rates.
• Familiar with the use of code generation tool for quality assurance and testing automation purposes.
• Define and improve defect management processes, root cause analysis processes, and continuous improvement loops.
• Define strategies for system testing environments, simulation environments, and hardware-in-the-loop testing where required.
• Work with Software Architecture and Development teams to ensure systems are designed for testability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Ensure compliance with relevant quality standards, cybersecurity requirements, and software development processes.
• Lead the QA & Testing community across teams, providing guidance, training, and coaching on quality engineering and testing best practices.
• Drive continuous improvement of software quality, testing efficiency, and release reliability across the organization.
• Own software release quality and software quality metrics across the GridBeats™ portfolio.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, or another relevant technical discipline.
• Proven and strong experience in software development, quality assurance, testing, or quality engineering, with experience in a leadership or coordination role.
• Experience defining and implementing software quality processes, testing strategies, and testing methodologies across multiple teams or products.
• Strong understanding of software testing approaches including unit testing, integration testing, system testing, and automated testing.
• Experience with test automation frameworks and integration of automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience working with CI/CD and DevOps environments (e.g., Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins or similar).
• Experience working in Agile or iterative development environments and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• Experience testing distributed systems, backend/server software, APIs, and embedded software systems is highly desirable.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Familiarity with cybersecurity, industrial software, or safety-critical software environments is a plus.
• ISTQB or comparable software testing certification is an advantage.

Desired Characteristics

• Quality engineering mindset, viewing quality as a shared responsibility across development, testing, operations, and product teams.
• Strong leadership and coaching skills with the ability to guide teams in improving testing and quality practices.
• Ability to influence teams and stakeholders and drive adoption of quality processes and best practices.
• Structured and pragmatic mindset, balancing process definition with delivery speed and engineering productivity.
• Data-driven approach to quality improvement using metrics, defect analysis, and continuous improvement practices.
• Ability to work in international and matrix organizations and collaborate across distributed teams.
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain quality and testing concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Continuous improvement mindset and interest in modern testing practices including automation, observability, and reliability engineering.

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