Job Description:

SDG&E is an innovative San Diego-based energy company that provides clean, safe and reliable energy to better the lives of the people it serves in San Diego and southern Orange counties. The company is committed to creating a sustainable future by providing its electricity from renewable sources; modernizing natural gas pipelines; accelerating the adoption of electric vehicles; supporting numerous non-profit partners; and, investing in innovative technologies to ensure the reliable operation of the region's infrastructure for generations to come. SDG&E is a subsidiary of Sempra Energy (NYSE: SRE).

Our highly trained and responsive employees with their diverse skills, talents and ideas are the reason we can deliver on our commitment and are building America's best energy company. They are also the reason why we have been recognized with the industry's most coveted awards. Our employees undertake challenging work, and receive highly competitive compensation and benefits. As one of the region's largest employers, we're always searching for talented and bright people to join our team. After all, it takes the best to build the best. Learn more about benefits HERE.

Diversity and inclusion are core values of SDG&E. Empowering our employees to be their whole selves at work is our competitive advantage. This is where new ideas come from and meaningful collaboration gets an authentic start. By bringing together people with different perspectives, diverse backgrounds and real commitment to their own individuality, we have built a stronger business. Learn more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion HERE.

For more information, visit SDGEnews.com or connect with SDG&E on Twitter (@SDGE), Instagram (@SDGE) and Facebook.

Primary Purpose:

The Test Automation Capability Owner will work with other Living Systems team members to scope, prioritize, groom, and validate completeness of automated test user stories utilizing Agile principles, in alignment with the duties and responsibilities described.

The Capability Owner is a member of a capability team, primarily responsible for delivery of services that enable the organization. Maintains a roadmap for the team, prioritizing backlog of work based on value to enterprise. Works closely with stakeholders to draft objectives and strategies as a primary input for their roadmap, working to ensure delivery of services to teams across organization. Users across enterprise can request and receive standard services from this cross-product team. As a point of contact for end users, maintains and runs services managed by team. Ensures that all agreed upon services are being delivered and are prioritized appropriately, and that satisfaction levels and expectations are met.

Duties and Responsibilities:

* Delivers IT technical services to teams across organization. Supports efforts to empower teams with knowledge, tools, services, and resourcing to enable activities within respective capability. A capability is a technical service, system, application, function or process and may include enterprise-wide standards (e.g., IT quality assurance, cybersecurity compliance, etc.). Plans and manages all activities within an assigned delivery scope as determined by team and related leadership. Collaborates with company customers, staff, IT colleagues, vendor partners, and other stakeholders to identify related delivery requirements, assess potential impacts, consider user needs, and compare costs and evaluate benefits.

* Operates with clear understanding of team's delivery vision and goals, leveraging that understanding to inform team's roadmap and strategy for alignment with capability roadmap guidelines as set by leadership. Identifies and qualifies potential opportunities for team's backlog (i.e. a dynamic, prioritized list of everything that is known to be needed in product including descriptions, business benefit, estimated effort, and noted order.), focused on net new services and features for work planning. Maintains delivery roadmap of work and services. Verifies that for each delivery commitment, there is a defined and agreed-on set of criteria used to assess readiness for go/no-go with new or enhanced service requests work to be accepted into backlog.

* Documents work to inform priority and planning. Defines work according to quality standards for clarity. Acts as a trusted advisor and liaison between their team and primary consumers/end users of the capability/technology. End users may include enterprise business users, vendors, employees or other teams within IT). Coordinates requests and needs with cross functional teams, leading communications with partners and handling intake and prioritization of requests. Communicates value of particular services and work to team and end users, ensuring work is well understood and success criteria are clear. Organizes and aligns delivery to the team plan, priorities, and backlog.

* Drives delivery of work with a prioritization of value creation, providing capability specific input and guidance to working teams. Operates following known industry practices, such as kanban or scrum. Kanban and scrum are frameworks used for organizing work in an agile way, focused on managing flow of knowledge and operational work and driving continuous improvement for a team.

* Performs other duties as assigned (no more than 5% of duties).

Required Qualifications:

* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, related field or equivalent training and/or experience.

* 3 years progressive experience in IT service delivery, risk and compliance, IT operations, IT project delivery and/or equivalent experience required.

* Effective Communication Skills - Ability to clearly articulate ideas and convey messages across audiences, utilizing formal and informal communication modes such as presentations, written documents, and one-on-one conversations. Ability to effectively solicit ideas and feedback from others and use to continually improve processes.

* Capability Industry Insights - Demonstrates a strong understanding of emerging trends in their capability landscape, including new technologies, processes, and ways of working. Knowledge of capability industry trends and insights with the ability to apply knowledge to the company's systems, applications, infrastructure, and practices.

* Stakeholder Management - Ability to create and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders (including clients) in order to drive outcomes and create alignment around a vision or course of action.

Preferred Qualifications:

* 1 year experience with agile frameworks

* Value Realization - Strong ability to identify the benefits provided by a proposed user story or feature (units and groupings of work defined in an agile way, with stories being the smallest unit i.e., a unit of work that can be delivered by a single team in a single two week sprint.) relative to the effort that it will require from the team in order to drive the effective prioritization of work to maximize the benefits delivered by the team to the customer.

* Agile Methodologies - Knowledge of concepts, including Agile Scrum and/or Kanban, and application of Agile methodology (e.g., Lean, Safe, LeSS) for project management to be able to design, implement and manage projects.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability or protected veteran status.

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