Lead Quality Assurance Engineer
Description
POSITION DESCRIPTION:
As a Lead Quality Assurance Engineer at Hanwha Q CELLS America, you will play an instrumental role in ensuring the reliability and quality of our Residential Energy Management software solutions, including Fleet Manager and Virtual Power Plant (VPP) Manager applications. You will focus on software quality assurance, end-to-end/system test strategy, and validation processes across web, mobile, and embedded systems that interact with residential energy hardware. The successful candidate will be a key contributor to maintaining high product standards—working cross-functionally with engineering, product management, field operations, and customer support teams—to detect issues early, improve test coverage, and deliver seamless, high-quality user experiences and high data quality across platforms. This role reports to the Sr. Director Quality, Cloud Infra and CS and is based in the Santa Clara Bay Area, CA. Standard working hours are Monday through Friday from 8:00am to 5:00pm (with flexibility to adjust to 9:00am to 6:00pm as needed). Occasional overtime and weekend work may be required to support release cycles or critical issues. There is no expectation to travel for this position at the moment.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- In this role you will be responsible for System testing and automation of Qcells products and provide support for Customers as L3.
- You will work along-side a cross functional team comprising of Product, UX Design, Software Development, Data Science, DevOps and cross shore teams located globally specifically India, Australia and Korea
- You will report to the Sr. Director Quality, Cloud Infra and CS and will potentially supervise other QA engineers.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- At least 10 years of experience working with Cloud based software solutions utilizing AWS/Azure/GCP in the capacity of a developer or a SDET.
- Possesses a curiosity to understand and comprehends how systems have been built architecturally and is able to put the pieces of the puzzles together.
- Proficiency in Java/ Python/ Ruby or any other programming/scripting language
- Solid Experience in REST API testing and Microservices centric testing
- Experience in leveraging SQL skills to write complex queries to validate data with a focus on data quality and accuracy
- Experience implementing full stack automation from Continuous Integration to Continuous deployment & delivery. Experience with Jenkins, TeamCity or equivalent CI/CD tools.
- Experience in industry standard configuration management best practices and exposure to version control tools like GIT, Github, Bitbucket, SVN, etc.
- Good knowledge of UNIX variants like LINUX (hosted on cloud)
- Solid understanding and experience with Industry standard best practices in Software Quality Engineering processes, tools and methodologies
- Hands-on working experience with collaboration and defect tracking tools like – Slack, Confluence, Atlassian JIRA etc.
- Candidate must be able to translate production requirements to comprehensive test plans, cases & drive them through execution and successful closure.
- Be thorough and detailed oriented in seeing bugs through closure
- Must be an excellent team player who can influence and get their initiatives to fruition.
- Must have a Penchant desire to upskill continuously
- Must have the ability to design and develop test automation frameworks from scratch
- Candidates with knowledge of the energy domain, IOT and/or regulated utility markets are strongly preferred
Hanwha Q CELLS America Inc. (“HQCA”) is headquartered in Irvine, CA, and handles sales for the North American region. It is a subsidiary of Hanwha Q CELLS Co., Ltd., one of the world´s largest and most recognized photovoltaic manufacturers for its high-performance, high-quality solar cells and modules. It is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea (Global Executive HQ) and Thalheim, Germany (Technology & Innovation HQ). Through its growing global business network spanning Europe, North America, Asia, South America, Africa, and the Middle East, the company provides excellent services and long-term partnerships to its customers in the utility, commercial, government, and residential markets. Hanwha Q CELLS is a flagship company of Hanwha Group, a FORTUNE Global 500 firm, and a Top 8 business enterprise in South Korea. HQCA recently acquired Geli, a leading developer of Energy Management System software for energy storage, solar, and other renewable resources.
PHYSICAL, MENTAL & ENVIRONMENTAL DEMANDS:
To comply with the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 the essential physical, mental and environmental requirements for this job are listed below. These are requirements normally expected to perform regular job duties. Incumbent must be able to successfully perform all of the functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.
Mobility
Standing
20% of time
Sitting
70% of time
Walking
10% of time
Strength
Pulling
up to 10 Pounds
Pushing
up to 10 Pounds
Carrying
up to 10 Pounds
Lifting
up to 10 Pounds
Dexterity(F = Frequently, O = Occasionally, N = Never)
Typing
F
Handling
F
Reaching
F
Agility(F = Frequently, O = Occasionally, N = Never)
Turning
F
Twisting
F
Bending
O
Crouching
O
Balancing
N
Climbing
N
Crawling
N
Kneeling
N
The salary range is required by the California Pay Transparency Act and may differ depending on the location of those candidates hired nationwide. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to, skill set, education, licenses and certifications, essential job duties and requirements, and the necessary experience relative to the job’s minimum qualifications.
- This target salary range is for CA positions only and should not be interpreted as an offer of compensation.