Project/Test Manager

Robotic Technologies Automation; Rosemead (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION LLC is seeking a Project & Test Management professional to lead grid systems implementation projects and govern testing activities performed by a third-party provider. The role emphasizes strategy, planning, and governance without hands-on testing.

The ideal candidate brings extensive IT/OT project management experience, strong SDLC/QA knowledge, and proven ability to coordinate cross-functional teams and vendors while ensuring regulatory and security compliance across

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience managing IT/OT implementation projects or test management.
• Experience delivering grid systems or operational technology platforms (e.g., ADMS, DMS, EMS, OMS, GIS, historian).
• Strong understanding of SDLC, QA methodologies, and project management practices (Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid).
• Experience managing vendor-based or third-party testing programs.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end delivery of grid systems implementation projects, including scope, schedule, budget, and resource coordination.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, milestones, and status reporting.
• Maintain RAID and track items through closure.
• Coordinate across internal teams, business SMEs, vendors, and integration partners.
• Facilitate project meetings, issue triage, and decision-making sessions.
• Ensure alignment with regulatory, security, and compliance requirements as applicable.
• Define and manage testing strategy across functional, integration, regression, and UAT phases.
• Oversee creation and approval of test plans, test cases, and execution schedules developed by the third-party testing provider.
• Manage vendor-based testing activities and provide governance and direction.
• Coordinate test environment readiness, data preparation, and deployment windows.
• Track and report test progress, metrics, and defect lifecycle through resolution.
• Support business readiness, UAT coordination, and post-go-live validation.
• Ensure alignment between testing outcomes, project milestones, and release objectives.

Skills

Attention to detail

Organizational skills

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Communication

Tools

HP ALM

JIRA

Zephyr

qTest

Grip

Job description

This role manages grid systems implementation projects while providing test governance and lifecycle
oversight. The Project & Test Management role is responsible for managing scope, schedule, and delivery,
while coordinating and overseeing all testing activities executed by a third-party testing provider. This role
defines testing strategy, alignment, quality, and readiness — without performing hands-on test execution.

Key Responsibilities:

Project Delivery & Governance

• Manage end-to-end delivery of grid systems implementation projects, including scope, schedule, budget, and resource coordination.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, milestones, and status reporting.
• Maintain and track RAID (risks, actions, issues, decisions) and manage items through closure.
• Coordinate across internal teams, business SMEs, vendors, and integration partners.
• Facilitate project meetings, issue triage, and decision-making sessions.
• Ensure alignment with regulatory, security, and compliance requirements as applicable.
• Define and manage the overall testing strategy across functional, integration, regression, and UAT phases.
• Oversee creation and approval of test plans, test cases, and execution schedules developed by the third-party testing provider.
• Manage vendor-based testing activities and provide governance and direction — without performing hands-on testing.
• Coordinate test environment readiness, data preparation, and deployment windows.
• Track and report test progress, metrics, and defect lifecycle through resolution.
• Support business readiness, UAT coordination, and post-go-live validation.
• Ensure alignment between testing outcomes, project milestones, and release objectives.

Required Skills & Experience

• 7+ years of experience managing IT/OT implementation projects, with at least 3 years in a Project Management or Test Management capacity.
• High level of attention to detail, organization, process documentation.
• Experience managing delivery or testing of grid systems or operational technology platforms (e.g., ADMS, DMS, EMS, OMS, GIS, historian, or related utility applications).
• Strong understanding of SDLC, QA methodologies, and project management practices (Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid).
• Experience managing vendor-based or third-party testing programs.
• Proficiency with test and project management tools (e.g., HP ALM, JIRA, Zephyr, qTest, Grip).
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.

ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION LLC is an equal opportunity employer inclusive of female, minority, disability and veterans, (M/F/D/V). Hiring, promotion, transfer, compensation, benefits, discipline, termination and all other employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, national origin, citizenship/immigration status, veteran status or any other protected status. ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION LLC will not make any posting or employment decision that does not comply with applicable laws relating to labor and employment, equal opportunity, employment eligibility requirements or related matters. Nor will ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION LLC require in a posting or otherwise U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent residency in the U.S. as a condition of employment except as necessary to comply with law, regulation, executive order, or federal, state, or local government contract