Energy One is a global supplier of software products and services to wholesale energy, environmental and carbon trading markets.
Listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX:EOL) since 2007, the Energy One group of companies has a successful track record of providing sophisticated, practical solutions and services to Australasian and European companies operating in the fast-paced 24/7 wholesale energy marketplace.
Energy One’s suite of software products include ETRM, process automation, automated bidding/nominations, and algorithmic trading. In addition to software, Energy One provides services to operate their software and manage the operation of renewable assets on behalf of customers.
Energy One’s market operations services provide 24/7 ‘follow the sun’ approach, where experienced and dedicated teams work together and act on behalf of customers across the world scheduling and nominations for day-ahead and intra-day markets.
Over the last five years, several companies have joined the Energy One Group. These include Contigo Software Limited in the UK, eZ-nergy in France, EGSSIS in Belgium and CQ Energy in Australia
Energy One UK employ approximately 45 people in software development and consulting roles. Our clients are energy retailers and generators who are seeking better software solutions to improve efficiencies within their energy trading and supply businesses.
We hold a large part of the UK market for software in our niche with several of the ‘big 6’ UK energy suppliers as customers.
The role
We are seeking an experienced Senior Automation Engineer to join our dynamic software development team, to help deliver business value and drive continuous improvement. The candidate will bring a critical thinking & technical approach to our quality assurance efforts, helping to ensure that all products meet the highest standards of quality and reliability. This role involves creation, maintenance and execution of automation tests, and collaborating with other departments to deliver world-class software solutions. You must be confident in your abilities, be willing to learn, be able to challenge yourself, the team and the company.
This role is mainly office based, in Solihull. Remote work can be allowed for a maximum of 2 days a week.
Qualifications and Experience
The individual will come from a QA background with:
- 4+ years of experience working in a software house, creating, maintaining and executing functional and non-functional automated tests using the Microsoft technology stack (C#, .Net Framework, SQL Server, Windows ASP.net) & Selenium
- Hands-on experience of REST API automation
- A passion to improve processes, tools, methodologies, and overall quality of the product
- Experience working with CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps or equivalent products
- Excellent prioritisation and decision-making skills, with proven problem-solving expertise
- Strong communication and collaboration abilities, with the capability to work effectively in a team-oriented environment
Main responsibilities
Deliver
- Participate in the design of user stories and associated acceptance criteria (Three Amigos)
- Work collaboratively as an integrated member of the team, defining and implementing the team’s automated testing strategy
- Use a variety of tools and languages to create maintainable and reliable automated tests at the appropriate level
- Execute test suites manually, when the need arises
- Non-functional testing to ensure quality at all levels
Improve
- Promote best working practices and identify areas for improvement
- Ensure that all requests are carried out in a professional, disciplined, efficient and process-orientated manner, and promote continuous improvement
Collaborate
- Active participation in Scrum ceremonies to foster collaboration across the business
- Discuss system usage with clients and users to deeply understand their usage and expectations
- Perform code reviews of your peers' work
- Run regular automation workshops and training sessions for the technology team
- Contribute actively to company initiatives
Desirable attributes
- Self-motivated, proactively engages with cross-functional teams to provide advice on the best practices for using existing product functionality to meet the customer needs
- Able to re-appropriate existing solutions to new requirements and situations
- Able to work in fast-paced environment with rapidly developing opportunities
- Able to work both independently and in a team
- Strong programming skills, and an appetite to learn new languages and frameworks
Benefits
- Central Solihull location, modern offices with great amenities and transport links.
- Flexible environment with opportunity to work on a wide variety of projects.
- Good remuneration package
- Company pension (8%),
- Employee stock share scheme
- 25 days holiday per year
- You Day - One day per year to take time off for yourself
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Life Assurance
- Private Medical Insurance
- Simply Health Cash Plan scheme
- Employee Assistance Program
- Octopus Energy EV salary-sacrifice lease scheme
Energy One promotes diversity, inclusion and equal opportunity.
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Please note unsuccessful applicants will not be individually contacted.