Staff Quality Assurance Engineer (NRG Energy Inc., Lehi, Utah)

NRG Energy is a company focused on providing reliable energy solutions, and they are seeking a Staff Quality Assurance Engineer. The role involves ensuring complete test coverage of product functionality, developing test automation infrastructure, debugging production issues, and mentoring junior engineers.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure complete test coverage of product functionality
• Develop and maintain test automation infrastructure
• Debug and fix Production issues
• Execute, Automate, and maintain test cases
• Actively participate in backlog grooming
• Use strong communication skills (written and verbal) to participate in production calls and help resolve production issues
• Raise issues and questions early in the feature development process
• Lead and drive initiatives
• Mentor junior engineers
• Collaborate with cross-functional team of Architects, Designers, Product Managers and other stakeholders

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree or U.S. equivalent in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field
• 5 years of professional experience as a Quality Engineer, Computer System Engineer, or any occupation/job title/position performing software and API testing
• 5 years of professional experience designing and executing comprehensive test plans and test cases (utilizing software testing principles, cloud environments, and distributed systems) to ensure complete test coverage of product functionality
• 5 years of professional experience debugging and resolving production issues in collaboration with engineering, product, and operations teams, and participating in incident response calls to ensure stability and fast issue resolution
• 5 years of professional experience performing API contract testing, database testing (including SQL), and debugging system-level issues in Linux-based environments
• 5 years of professional experience writing clear, thorough test plans and test cases, and ensuring complete test coverage
• 4 years of professional experience performing cloud computing, including load testing, reliability testing, and utilizing monitoring and deployment tools to support modern CI/CD pipelines