Utility Project Manager / Test Manager - Rosemead, California

The candidate will be responsible for coordinating end-to-end testing activities, managing project milestones and dependencies, ensuring test readiness, tracking defects through resolution, and providing regular status updates to project stakeholders and leadership. The role requires experience working across technical teams, business stakeholders, vendors, and testing resources in both Agile and Waterfall environments.

Job Title: Utility Project Manager / Test Manager

Location: Rosemead, California
Duration: 12 Months
Certification: PMP preferred
Key Requirement: NERC-CIP experience

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Project Manager / Test Manager to support a major utility technology modernization initiative, EMS Refresh 2.0. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in IT/OT project management, test planning and execution, stakeholder coordination, and defect management, preferably within the utilities or energy sector.

The candidate will be responsible for coordinating end-to-end testing activities, managing project milestones and dependencies, ensuring test readiness, tracking defects through resolution, and providing regular status updates to project stakeholders and leadership. The role requires experience working across technical teams, business stakeholders, vendors, and testing resources in both Agile and Waterfall environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate project activities, focusing on testing milestones, schedules, deliverables, and overall project execution.

• Develop and maintain test strategies, test plans, schedules, resource requirements, and testing metrics.

• Coordinate functional, system integration, regression, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

• Manage the end-to-end defect lifecycle, including identification, triage, prioritization, resolution tracking, retesting, and closure.

• Ensure testing prerequisites, entry criteria, exit criteria, and readiness requirements are met for each testing phase.

• Coordinate test environment readiness, resource availability, scheduling, and cross-team dependencies.

• Collaborate with technical teams, business stakeholders, vendors, and testing teams to ensure effective project delivery.

• Track project risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, testing progress, and defect resolution activities.

• Maintain test plans, test results, project schedules, RAID logs, status reports, and other project documentation.

• Facilitate test planning sessions, kickoff meetings, status reviews, defect triage sessions, and issue-resolution meetings.

• Communicate testing progress, risks, metrics, and project status to stakeholders and leadership.

• Provide guidance, direction, and training to junior project support analysts.

• Ensure testing activities align with project milestones, release objectives, and delivery timelines.

• Apply appropriate project management practices across Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience supporting or managing complex IT/OT technology projects.

• 3+ years of experience in Project Management, Test Management, or a combined Project Manager / Test Manager role.

• Experience with NERC Critical Infrastructure Protection (NERC-CIP) requirements in a utility, energy, or related environment.

• Strong experience managing multiple software testing cycles, including functional, integration, regression, and UAT.

• Proven ability to coordinate multiple teams and manage stakeholders across technical, business, and vendor organizations.

• Hands-on experience with defect tracking, triage, prioritization, resolution, retesting, and closure.

• Strong understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), QA methodologies, and testing best practices.

• Experience working in both Agile and Waterfall project environments.

• Proficiency in maintaining test documentation, project schedules, test results, status reports, and RAID logs.

• Experience with test management and project tracking tools such as HP ALM, Jira, Zephyr, or qTest.

• Excellent communication, leadership, organization, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.

• Ability to work onsite in Rosemead, California, every Tuesday and Wednesday.

Preferred Qualifications

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.

• Previous experience in the utilities, energy, electric power, grid systems, or operational technology sectors.

• Experience with Energy Management Systems (EMS), Advanced Distribution Management Systems (ADMS), Distribution Management Systems (DMS), Outage Management Systems (OMS), SCADA, GIS, or Historian platforms.

• Experience overseeing third-party or vendor-led testing programs.

• Experience managing testing activities for large-scale utility technology modernization initiatives.

Work Arrangement

This is a 12-month engagement based in Rosemead, California, with a hybrid work schedule requiring onsite presence every Tuesday and Wednesday.

Best Regards,

Arun | Sr US IT Recruiter

SIDRAM TECHNOLOGIES

IT Services | Development | Staffing

URL: http:/www.sidramtech.com | Email:arun

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