R&D Quality Leader

GE Vernova


Job Location:

Markham - Canada

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed
Posted on: 12 days ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Description Summary

The R&D Quality Manager will lead endtoend quality assurance for the R&D organization product design quality and NPI process improvements driving the adoption of contemporary tools and methodologies for GE Vernovas software-enabled industrial and energy technologies. This role requires strong leadership in New Product Introduction (NPI) process with focus on validation and verification and expertise in hardware and software development for critical infrastructure solutions. The ideal candidate has a proven track record in ensuring high product reliability driving continuous improvement through datadriven root cause analysis and customer issue resolution and problem solving.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead the overall QA strategy for NPI program deliverables within GE Vernovas Grid Automation & Software R&D technology portfolio.
  • Implement and track KPIs for end-to-end NPI process.
  • Drive NPI process quality improvement initiatives in collaboration with R&D leaders and team.
  • Lead ACT backlog defect backlog and resolution time reduction.
  • Drive DFMEA/SFMEA adoption.
  • Review V&V strategy and plans with R&D execution team and propose improvements.
  • Lead NPI Process audits and drive improvement initiatives to fix non-conformances.
  • Lead customer issue investigations using 5 Whys Ishikawa diagrams Fault Tree Analysis and KepnerTregoe to drive speed and quality of issue resolution.
  • Partner with engineering product cyber security and field services teams to drive corrective and preventive actions.
  • Track and report test/quality metrics and deliver test exit summaries.
  • Drive continuous improvement across QA processes tooling and automation maturity.

Required Qualifications

  • Demonstrated experience supporting hardware and software based NPI organizations.
  • Demonstrated experience leading and supporting test automation strategy and implementation
  • 7 years QA/Test Engineering experience including 3 years in a leadership role.
  • Strong grounding in SDLC Agile/Scrum CI/CD DevOps.
  • Strong experience with V&V across all phases of testing.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in industrial grid energy or OT/IT environments.
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS Azure GCP) and containerized systems.
  • Experience with tooling such as JIRA Azure DevOps Git GHCP Jenkins Appium Selenium Playwright.
  • Experience in safetycritical or regulated product environments.

  • Note:


    To comply with US immigration and other legal requirements it is necessary to specify the minimum number of years experience required for any role based within the USA. For roles outside of the USA to ensure compliance with applicable legislation the JDs should focus on the substantive level of experience required for the role and a minimum number of years should NOT be used.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No

Job Description SummaryThe R&D Quality Manager will lead endtoend quality assurance for the R&D organization product design quality and NPI process improvements driving the adoption of contemporary tools and methodologies for GE Vernovas software-enabled industrial and energy technologies. This role...

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