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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 Commercial IT 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 Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to establish and lead the Quality Assurance (QA) practice for our Commercial IT organization, 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 product portfolio and 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
•Leads 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 empower Software Engineers to create highly performant and secure systems.
•Leads medium complexity efforts with the functionality and quality through automated and manual testing. Leads small teams as a quality champion and empowers Software Engineers to create highly performant and secure systems.
•Typically executes a defined quality assurance roadmap, contributing to the organization's engineering and technology strategy.
•Leads small to medium size initiatives 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 direction of testing scope and develop testing strategy. Monitors and measure requirements, outputs and metrics for testing. 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 Owner to understand acceptance criteria and support and gathers feedback from user acceptance testing.
•Supports the alignment of Agile practices for testing scope and development of testing strategy. Supports, monitors and measures requirements, outputs, and metrics for testing that are aligned with anticipated lead and cycle times.
•Works with users to translate designs and solution architecture into design specifications. Leads small to medium 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.
•Ensures proper documentation of software test results and works with stakeholders to design and implement corrective actions.
•Plans and implements testing (e.g., regression, functional, data validation, system integration, load, or performance tests) for new and existing functionality. Identifies opportunities to reduce testing time and effort by automating repeatable tests. Defines and champions quality and testing best practices among development teams. Supports DevSecOps transformation by enabling Software Engineers to expand on Automation testing within the Agile life cycle. Utilizes centralized reporting for all defects/incidents using standard tools that may generate defects and diminish quality of delivery.
•Design and develop custom test harnesses and automation frameworks in C#, supporting both UI and backend systems.
•Create and execute automated tests using Selenium WebDriver for UI, and tools like Postman or REST Assured for APIs.
•Integrate test suites into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions), enabling fast feedback and continuous validation.
•Validate and monitor non-functional requirements, including:
+ Performance & Load Testing
+ Security Testing (basic vulnerability check, integration with DevSecOps tools)
+ Accessibility & Sustainability
+ Compliance requirements (e.g., ISO 27001, SOC 2, HIPPA, or internal policies)
Education and Experience
•Bachelor’s degree in information technology, related field, or equivalent experience required
•5+ years of relevant experience
•Hands-on experiences with test management tools (e.g. Azure Test Plans, TestRails, or Zephyr) required.
•Hands-on coding experience (e.g., test automation scripting) is required to support automation frameworks in C#, supporting both UI and backend systems required.
•Experience with AI-driven tools and methodologies to enhance testing efficiency and accuracy preferred.
•Experience with Selenium WebDriver and other automation tools for UI and API testing preferred.
•Knowledge of testing principles like BDD, TDD, shift-left testing, performance testing, and risk-based testing required.
•Understanding compliance and regulatory standards, such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, or HIPPA preferred.
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 and pas 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.
5+ years of relevant experience
As an energy industry leader, our career opportunities fuel personal and professional growth.
Location:
San Antonio, Texas
Additional locations:
Findlay, Ohio
Job Requisition ID:
00017704
Location Address:
19100 Ridgewood Pkwy
Education:
Bachelors: Information Technology
Employee Group:
Full time
Employee Subgroup:
Regular
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