about 3 hours ago
Base Salary
$136k - $186k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and expand the quality operating model across GridUnity’s product lines while evolving its technical vision and roadmap.
- Operate and harden agent-generated API, UI, integration, contract, performance, and end-to-end test coverage with human review and activation workflows.
- Run the review-and-activation process and maintain throughput against its service-level agreement.
- Own evidence-backed release gates, exit criteria, waivers, sign-off accountability, and escalation paths.
- Define and operate the process for retiring manual tests as automation capability improves.
- Build calibration and evaluation systems for agent verdicts using golden human judgments and escape-rate data.
- Embed automated testing into the software development lifecycle and CI/CD pipelines.
- Advance behavioral validation through persona walkthroughs, exploratory charters, and judgment-based testing.
- Partner with Engineering Managers and Staff Engineers to improve reliability, maintainability, and developer productivity.
- Mentor engineers and QA teammates through code reviews, pairing, and technical design discussions.
- Define and use engineering quality metrics including escape rate, agent-verdict calibration, catalog trends, waiver frequency, and deployment success.
- Evaluate emerging testing technologies, agentic engineering practices, and AI-assisted development tools.
- Act as a technical thought leader influencing engineering strategy and quality culture.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Quality Engineering, or SDET roles, including leadership of quality engineering initiatives across multiple engineering teams.
- Experience designing agentic or AI-assisted quality workflows, such as agent-generated test coverage, computer-use testing, or LLM evaluation and calibration.
- Experience designing modern automated testing systems for enterprise SaaS applications and deciding which testing work should be performed by machines versus humans.
- Strong software engineering skills, including reading, reviewing, and hardening agent-produced code and tests; the platform is largely Java and TypeScript.
- Experience with evidence-based release governance, including release gates, exit criteria, waivers, and sign-off accountability.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, cloud-native applications, CI/CD, and highly testable software architectures.
- Demonstrated technical leadership, mentoring, influence, and communication across multiple engineering teams.
- Preferred experience building or transforming a Quality Engineering organization in a high-growth SaaS company.
- Preferred previous experience as a Principal Engineer, Staff Engineer, Quality Engineering Architect, or senior SDET.
- Preferred experience shipping intelligent test generation, autonomous test maintenance, or agent-driven quality workflows in production.
- Working knowledge of Playwright, Selenium, REST Assured, JUnit, TestNG, Cypress, or comparable automation technologies.
- Experience with developer-owned quality, shift-left testing, testing pyramid strategies, and engineering quality metrics.
- Experience with spec-driven or artifact-first development and testing derived from executable contracts.
- Experience operating test management as a system of record, such as Xray and Jira, with plans, executions, and traceability treated as evidence.
- Familiarity with cloud-native platforms, Kubernetes, serverless architectures, microservices testing, and observability platforms.
- Applicants must qualify as U.S. persons under applicable federal law because the role may involve access to regulated critical-infrastructure data and systems.
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement with flexibility and balance.
- Professional development including training, mentorship, and career pathing.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance starting day one.
- Short- and long-term disability and basic life insurance at no cost.
- 401(k) plan with a 4% match.
- Flexible PTO.
- Mission-driven work in the energy sector.
Tech Stack
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About GridUnity
GridUnity® accelerates grid interconnection by streamlining and automating complex, manual processes that delay energy deployment. The company’s cloud-based software helps utilities, system operators, transmission owners, and developers reduce bottlenecks and bring more energy to the grid faster—a capability that is critical for meeting growing demand. GridUnity’s SaaS platform is the only solution that integrates customer engagement, engineering automation, and infrastructure management in one unified system of record—empowering clients to increase efficiency, improve transparency, and make smarter, data-driven decisions. Trusted by North America’s leading utilities and system operators, GridUnity customers serve over 50% of the U.S. population. For more information, visit https://gridunity.com.