Job Description

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become an Automation Lead, Senior Advisor at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’ll lead the implementation of test automation capabilities for Grid applications, collaborate with cross-functional teams and vendors to develop solutions, maintain the deployed capabilities, and train and guide the team with streamlined test automation practices.

As an Automation Lead your work will help power our planet, reduce carbon emissions, and create cleaner air for everyone. Are you ready to take on the challenge to help us build the future?

A day in the life - Get ready to think big, work smart and shine bright!

• Lead multiple automation efforts and influencing others to adopt best practices when applicable.

• Collaborating with cross-functional teams including application SMEs domain architects, Cyber, Infrastructure and other subject matter experts. Requires coming up to speed rapidly with the SCE organization and key stakeholders.

• Analyze how systems are being tested manually and identify opportunities to reduce that time and effort through test automation.

• Design and develop robust automated test scripts to address business and technical use cases.

• Maintain, support, and extend our in house automation framework and automation suites.

• Design comprehensive approaches and set up process standards for ensuring the quality, scalability, and maintainability of test automation tools and frameworks.

• Participating in troubleshooting and triaging of issues with different teams to drive towards the root cause identification and resolution.

• A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all its physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other types of highly sensitive information and data with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.

The essentials

• Ten (10) or more years of hands-on experience designing, building and maintaining test automation solutions across multiple platforms using a variety of tools and frameworks.

• Five (5) or more years of experience interfacing, collaborating, and negotiating with team members, all levels of management, different departments, and vendors to develop solutions, facilitate cooperation between different parties, and obtain stakeholder buy-in.

• Five (5) or more years of experience leading successful test automation efforts.

The preferred

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.

• Highly proficient in testing and building test automation for desktop applications, APIs, packaged applications, and custom applications.

• Advanced knowledge in testing strategies, test automation approaches, and how to design mature automation frameworks.

• Prior experience automating tests using Tosca.

• Experience with integrating automation into CI-CD pipelines within large, complex environments.

• Recent hands-on experience with one or more programming languages and SQL.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly communicate and articulate to stakeholders and management across multiple business functions.

• Experience in the utility industry or a similar type of environment.

• Knowledge on DevOps processes including source code control, build and deployment processes.

You should know

• This position’s work mode is hybrid. The employee will report to an SCE facility for a set number of days with the option to work remotely on the remaining days.  Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to reside in the state of California.  Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage. The work mode can be changed based on business needs.

• Visit our Candidate Resource (https\://www.edisoncareers.com/page/show/candidate-resources) page to get meaningful information related to benefits, perks, resources, testing information, hiring process, and more!

• This position has been identified as a NERC/CIP impacted position - Prior to being hired, the successful candidate must pass a Personnel Risk Assessment (PRA) or Background Investigation. Once hired, the candidate must complete specified training prior to gaining un-escorted access to assigned work location and performing necessary job duties.

• Relocation may apply to this position.

• Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

About Southern California Edison

The people at SCE don't just keep the lights on. Our mission is so much bigger. We’re fueling the kind of innovation that’s changing an entire industry, and quite possibly the planet. Join us and create a future with cleaner energy, while providing our customers with the safety and reliability they demand. At SCE, you’ll have a chance to grow personally and professionally, making a real impact in Southern California and around the world.

At SCE, we celebrate our differences. We are a proud Equal Opportunity Employer and will not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other protected status.

We are committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodations at (833) 343-0727.