QA Engineer

Job title: QA Engineer

Location: London / Bristol / Edinburgh - Hybrid 

Part time available? Yes

Salary: £45,000 - £55,000

Team: Quality

Reporting To: Senior QA Manager

Closing date for applications: Friday 6th December 2024

Kaluza reimagines energy to bring net-zero within everyone’s reach. The Kaluza Platform enables energy utilities to unlock the full value of a radically changing energy system and propel us to a future where renewable energy is sustainable, affordable and accessible for all. 

From automating and simplifying core operations including billing to create a lower-cost, higher-engagement experience, to optimising energy usage across smart devices in the home, we turn tough challenges into win-win-win outcomes for customers, suppliers and the energy system. 

We have a strong flexible, hybrid working ethos, we aim to be as flexible as possible to balance work with life. As a company we come together annually for our conference and end of year celebrations! 

What will I be doing?

You will be a part of an Agile cross-functional team within Kaluza’s Energy Retail platform. You will champion Quality and best testing practices at every stage of the software development lifecycle, from requirement analysis, through developing new features, to proving the solution is ready to be released to our clients.. 

You will be working with other Quality professionals to ensure that End to End testing is automated and that regression tests spanning multiple teams are up to date.

About You 

Ideally you’ll have/be

• Experience automating test suite in TypeScript or Javascript, ideally for APIs.
• Experience of software quality assurance lifecycle within Agile methodologies.
• Able to maintain and enhance test automation frameworks and pipelines.
• Experience with exploratory and other manual testing types.
• Working with developers to review automated unit/integration tests. 
• Focused on continuous improvement of quality processes.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams, including development, product management, and client support, to ensure test coverage is met for all types of testing.  

What will set you apart 

• You are a strong communicator in verbal and written English.
• You are comfortable working in a diverse team and relish any collaboration opportunities.

Kaluza Values

Here at Kaluza we have five core values that guide us as a business: 

We’re on a mission, We build together, We’re inclusive, We get it done, We communicate with purpose.

Read more about our values over on our careers site.

From us you’ll get

• Pension Scheme
• Discretionary Bonus Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance + Virtual GP
• Life Assurance
• Access to Furthr - a Climate Action app
• Free Mortgage Advice and Eye Tests
• Perks at Work - access to thousands of retail discounts
• 5% Flex Fund to spend on the benefits you want most
• 26 days holiday

• Flexible bank holidays, giving you an additional 8 days which you can choose to take whenever you like

• Progressive leave policies with no qualifying service periods, including 26 weeks full pay if you have a new addition to your family 
• Dedicated personal learning and home office budgets
• Flexible working — we trust you to work in a way that suits your lifestyle
• And more…

We want the best people

We’re keen to meet people from all walks of life — our view is that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We want to build teams which represent a variety of experiences, perspectives and skills, and we recognise talent on the basis of merit and potential.

We understand some people may not apply for jobs unless they tick every box. But if you're excited about joining us and think you have some of what we're looking for, even if you're not 100% sure, we'd still love to hear from you.

Find out more about working in Kaluza on our careers page and LinkedIn.