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Position Summary
At MPC, we are embarking on a transformative journey where you will play a pivotal role in developing our DevSecOps culture and capabilities, investing in building and developing quality as a discipline, and ensuring we’re providing secure, high-quality solutions to our business partners.
We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Lead Quality Assurance Engineer to establish and lead the Quality Assurance (QA) practice for our Midstream and Refining IT organizations, ensuring alignment with industry standards and best practices. This role requires a strategic leader with exceptional collaboration and communication skills to drive quality across complex, cross-functional initiatives. You will shape the QA roadmap, champion automation and DevSecOps practices, and ensure the delivery of high-performing, secure, and reliable systems that meet stringent industry standards. As a key influencer, you’ll foster a culture of continuous improvement, mentor teams, and drive innovation in testing methodologies. This role offers opportunities for career growth, including exposure to cutting-edge technologies, leadership in enterprise-wide initiatives, and professional development through certifications and training.
Key Responsibilities
•Provides leadership to cross functional teams to test the functionality and quality through automated and manual testing for highly complex features. Leads cross functional teams as a quality champion and empowers their ability to create highly performant and secure systems.
•Contributes to the definition of the quality assurance roadmap, and the organization's engineering and technology strategy.
•Manages quality of the overall solution and artifacts developed for cross functional initiatives. Acts as key point of contact for all quality assurance (QA) aspects of releases, providing QA services and coordinating with all involved teams including development, QA, and other release management teams. Provides oversight of testing scope and develops testing strategy. Manages comprehensive test case development, test data repository management, test plan development. Creates and updates test summary artifacts. Develops, maintains, and executes automation of test scripts. Writes and executes automated checks, and identifies, analyzes, and reports bugs. Works with IT Product Leadership to understand acceptance criteria and support and gather feedback from user acceptance testing.
•Supports the alignment of Agile practices for testing scope and develop testing strategy. Supports, monitors and measures requirements, outputs, and metrics for testing that are aligned with anticipated lead and cycle times.
•Develops working relationships with peers across the engineering teams, collaborating to develop solutions. Leads cross functional teams to assess and track the quality of technical specifications and ensures that they are in line with stakeholder expectations and to review test cases for detail and accuracy.
•Assists in the planning process for software development efforts and ensure meeting quality and delivery standards in alignment with Enterprise QA Strategy.
•Leads the planning and implementation testing (e.g., regression, functional, data validation, system integration, load, or performance tests) for new and existing functionality. Identifies and orchestrates implementation of opportunities to reduce testing time and effort by automating repeatable tests. Defines and champions quality and testing best practices among development teams and Enterprise QA community. Supports DevSecOps transformation by enabling the organization to expand on Continuous Testing within the Software Development life cycle.
•Assesses and identifies technology needs and opportunities, making recommendations for system enhancements, upgrades, or replacements. Continuously seeks opportunities to optimize processes and workflows.
Education and Experience
•Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, related field, or equivalent experience required
•7+ years of relevant experience in quality assurance, with a proven track record of leading testing initiatives and driving quality in complex, cross-functional environments.
•Hands-on coding experience (e.g., test automation scripting) is required to support automation and DevSecOps practices.
•Experience with AI-Driven tools and methodologies to enhance testing efficiency and accuracy.(required)
•Background and experience in Oil & Gas industry preferred.
•Preferred certifications (not required):
+ Microsoft
Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) to demonstrate familiarity with cloud-based testing environments.
+ Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA) to showcase expertise in QA process leadership.
+ ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL) to validate core testing competencies.
+ ISTQB Certified Tester in Agile Testing (CTFL-AT) to ensure proficiency in Agile testing methodologies.
Skills
•Agile Methodologies - Agile project management is an iterative approach to delivering a project throughout its life cycle, taking incremental steps towards the completion of a project.
•Automated Testing – The automation of repetitive but necessary tasks in a formalized testing process already in place or performing additional testing that would be difficult to do manually.
•Continuous Improvement Mindset - Identifies and leads opportunities for continuous improvement and value creation, both incremental and large-scale
•Debugging - The process of finding and resolving bugs within computer programs, software, or systems.
•DevSecOps - A set of practices that automates the integration of security at every phase of the software development lifecycle, from initial design through integration, testing, deployment, and software delivery, with an aim towards shortening the systems development life cycle as well as continuous delivery and a security first approach.
•General Programming – Applies a computer language to communicate with computers using a set of instructions and to automate the execution of tasks.
•Log Monitoring – Logging and monitoring are crucial aspects of software development that involve capturing and analyzing information about a software system's behavior, performance, and errors.
•Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) – A process used by the software industry to design, develop and test high quality software.
•Software Testing – An investigation conducted to provide stakeholders with information about the quality of the software product or service under test.
•Version Control System – Software tool that helps engineers and other collaborators manage changes to source code, documents, and other files over time
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, related field or equivalent experience.
7+ years of relevant experience
As an energy industry leader, our career opportunities fuel personal and professional growth.
Location:
Findlay, Ohio
Job Requisition ID:
00017564
Pay Min/Max:
$119,900.00 - $179,800.00 Salary
Grade:
12
Location Address:
539 S Main St
Additional locations:
Denver, Colorado, San Antonio, Texas
Education:
Bachelors: Information Technology
Employee Group:
Full time
Employee Subgroup:
Regular
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