Job Application

QA Engineer (Scada)
Wokingham (3 days per week onsite)
Up to £40,000 plus benefits & bonus
Must be SC cleared or be eligible to hold Security Clearance

My consultancy client is looking to hire a QA Engineer specialised in SCADA. The role involves ensuring smooth network operations and top-tier telemetry operations in an Infrastructure/Application ITIL-based support environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Implement standardized testing approaches using central Test Tool/s.
• Collaborate on requirements articulation and alignment with NG Requirements and Test Strategy.
• Work within SCRUM Teams including the product Owner (PO) and SCADA SMEs/NGET Business testers to ensure test effort is appropriately represented in the User Stories and Tests capture Test Requirements fully.
• Thoroughly review test scripts and requirement mappings.
• Facilitate SME reviews and ensure effective defect reporting.
• Monitor and report on the progress of test preparation of JIRA/XRAY Tests (and associate test plans) and test readiness (environments, data prioritisation and end points), test scripts being of the right quality and level of detail. Ensure the technical scope is reviewed and agreed with an appropriate NG SME. using the defined processes.
• Produce Test Status reports and any other KPIs such as forecasts as required by the SCRUM Teams or National Grid team (eg Dashboards, charts). Use common metrics keeping all stakeholders appraised of testing progress to plan.
• Provide leadership and guidance as the testing expert for the assigned area.

Key Skills

• Good depth of Test Quality Assurance experience.
• Experience of Real Time operations for Power Network Control Systems - Telemetry-based products - Communications Protocols (IEC101) - Alarm Management - Network Monitoring & Forecasting - Display (mimics) - Workflow management - Historian.
• Strong experience testing across the Test Lifecycle.
• Strong business process-based test experience, able to understand, follow and explain complex business processes.
• Strong test design, development, and documentation skills - creating User Stories, Test Scenarios, and JIRA (JQL etc.) Reports. Good MS Office/Excel.
• Experience using JIRA Test Management and good Dashboard Reporting, Defect Management.
• Familiarity with industry standards and regulations related to power systems and control systems engineering (eg, IEC 61850, IEEE standards).
• Strong technical testing knowledge including integration Middleware - Oracle MFT and Mulesoft APIs.
• Experience with working in working in an on and offshore based model.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to analyse complex technical challenges related to testing power systems and control systems.
• Effective communication and teamwork skills, with the ability to collaborate across disciplines and communicate technical concepts to various stakeholders.
• ISTQB Qualified.

Please send your CV for immediate consideration.