Job Ref: 215889095

Date: 2022-02-24 09:27:39

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Graduate Technical Software Tester

Location: Milton Keynes (hybrid working)

Salary: £24k + profit share, contributory pension, medical benefits, life assurance & flexible holiday.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated graduate who is keen to build a career in our software engineering team working to create and enhance great products that are critical to our customers. In return you will find a supportive and talented team to work with, in a company that respects, trusts, and invests in their employees.

About the Role:

We are passionate about developing software applications that make a real difference in the energy market. We have a suite of products, such as our Energy Retail Suite, which ensures accurate pricing, billing, and supply management for large B2B Electricity suppliers, with dynamic workflow and automation. Our Sigma SaaS platform delivers great energy management tools with a mission to support customers to reduce energy consumption, analyse bills for cost recovery and reduce emissions to support green initiatives and achieve net-zero ambitions.

We operate in a sector that is undergoing rapid change, with organisations aiming to reduce their carbon emissions and electricity suppliers seeking more innovative solutions for their customers. EDW Technology, as a UK leader in technology for the energy market, is ideally placed to help our customers adapt in this rapidly changing sector, as we move to a more sustainable future.

The Role:

Hybrid – remote and office-based working, within a team of skilled engineers across various disciplines (Analysis, Development, Testing and Operations)
Working in an agile scrum environment which adheres to scrum values, delivering significant change to our products
Directly involved in design, development, test and delivery of great new features and improvements that the team is expected to champion, support, and evolve
High degree of collaboration across the team, eager to improve on everything that we do, with a keen eye for efficiency and quality
As a technical role, you will be working to improve test automation across our products using a mixture of API and UI testing tools and be capable of learning and writing code to facilitate this form of testing
You will design, build, and execute non-functional automated tests (e.g., Security, Performance etc.)
Writing automated tests with Java/Groovy, Javascript
Feeding test data into automated tests with the use of SQL to databases such as mySQL and Oracle
Working with test automation tools like ReadyAPI, jMeter, and UI testing tools like TestComplete, Katalon
Working with API specifications (OpenAPI, Swagger, SOAP etc.)
Managing test automation lifecycle with GIT, BitBucket, Docker, Jira Cloud, Zephyr, Testrail
Accessing servers via Linux shell/Bash
About you:

You have an interest in learning to use technology to assure the quality of business-critical applications
You collaborate well within a team and are motivated to learn new technologies and understand existing software platforms, so that you can help shape them in the future
You have a desire to learn and understand how energy retail and energy management industries work, to help us build game changing solutions
You have a good degree in a STEM subject
You have some knowledge or interest in test automation
You have an interest in assuring both the functional and non-functional aspects of software and are motivated to deliver secure, reliable, and high-performance software
Benefits we offer:

Employee ownership profit share
Hybrid working (mix of office and home based)
Flexible holidays
Good career progression
Contributory pension
Medical benefits
Life assurance
Continued learning and development through internal and external training
Cycle to work scheme
Free on-site parking
On-site kitchenette and chill-out areas with free fruit, tea and coffee
Company funded events and team building
About Us:

EDW Technology, established in 1995, is an innovative IT company specialising in the energy sector. Having acquired TEAM Energy in 2017, a company specialising in energy management software and services, we are well placed to become a leading software and service provider in our related sectors of energy retail and energy management.

In 2019 we moved into employee ownership, meaning that all our employees share in the success of our business through a profit share scheme.

Our aim is to be recognised as the leading software company in the energy sector and so we are looking for smart people to help us achieve that – intelligent, outgoing, pragmatic, and hard-working individuals with a genuine interest in IT.

If you feel like you meet the above criteria of the Graduate Technical Software Tester, please apply now

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