Senior QA Engineer

� UK, Hybrid

�� Our Perks

Values-driven culture – we’re really proud of our culture. 

🙌 Drive your own experience 

• Personalised Learning and Development Budget
• Hybrid working hours – Each team has their own Smart Working Charter that empowers you to do your work in the best way you can
• Technology – Your choice of Mac or Windows

✨ Empowering you to be your most authentic self 

• 25 Holiday Days + your local bank holidays
• 1 Birthday day – it only happens once a year!
• 3 So Giving Days - spend these days giving back to your chosen cause
• Religious Celebrations Leave
• Mental Healthcare – Sessions with Unmind
• Enhanced Family Leave

So Energy

Who we are

So Energy was created in 2015 because we knew energy suppliers could be better. Since then, we’ve grown rapidly but sustainably, with 350,000 customers and over 450 Energists (what we call our people). But we’re not done. We’re on the road to a net zero future, and thanks to our partnership with ESB, we’re well on the way. We’re customer-centric, tech-led, and passionate about sustainability.

We want to do the best we can for our customers, each other, and our planet, so we’ve created a workplace that's encouraging, supportive, and offers the opportunity for growth. As a company, we live by six core values that guide everything we do:

• Clear
• Honest
• Ambitious
• Inquisitive
• Caring
• Sustainable

The Role

Senior QA Engineer at SO ENERGY

We are seeking experienced Senior QA Engineers to join our dynamic team at SO Energy, led by our Director of Technology Muhammad Khan. We need a proactive and skilled professional who thrives in a collaborative environment and is passionate about ensuring the quality and reliability of our digital products.

As a Senior QA Engineer , you will play a crucial role in designing, building, improving, and supporting the QA processes across the SO Energy platform. You should be adept at leveraging modern QA practices, including test automation frameworks, BDD (Behavior Driven Development), load testing, and agile methodologies, to deliver consistent value and ensure the highest quality of our software products.

You will be part of a multi-disciplinary and multinational team, working with a diverse tech stack that includes tools and technologies such as Cypress, Playwright, JMeter, and Github Actions. This role provides an excellent opportunity to deepen your expertise in test automation and quality assurance while enhancing the performance and reliability of our systems.

If you are a team player with a deep understanding of QA practices and a passion for continuous improvement, we would love to have you on board.

Reporting into James Lund (Engineering Manager)

What you’ll be getting up to:

• Reporting & Communication: Monitor, analyse, and report on automated test results, ensuring quality and identifying areas for improvement.

• Lead Automation Strategy & Implementation: Define and implement a robust QA automation strategy across multiple development teams. Develop, maintain, and enhance automation test frameworks, with a strong emphasis on BDD practices.
• Automate and Enhance our SDLC feedback loops: Work to shorten feedback loops in our CD/CD and SDLC so that we can automatically test new changes rapidly, and ship code as fast as possible
• Collaborate with Cross-Functional Teams: Work closely with developers, product owners, and stakeholders to understand requirements and integrate testing seamlessly into the development lifecycle.
• Design and Execute Test Plans: Develop and maintain test plans, test cases, and scripts for both functional and non-functional testing (regression, performance, smoke testing).
• Drive Load and Performance Testing: Design and implement load testing strategies for performance and scalability.
• Quality Advocate & Process Improvement: Promote a quality-first culture, driving continuous improvement in testing processes and tools. Mentor and coach QA engineers on best practices in automation and testing methodologies.

This role will be a great fit if:

• Excellent Communication and Collaboration Skills, comfortable working across cross-functional teams.

• Experience with Automation Testing Frameworks: Especially BDD (Cucumber, SpecFlow).
• Proficiency with Tools like Cypress, Selenium, or Playwright for UI automation testing.
• Experience in Load Testing and Performance Optimization (e.g., JMeter, LoadRunner).
• Understanding of Frontend Technologies (JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, CSS) and frameworks (React, Angular).
• Ability to query databases: Proficiency in SQL and the ability to find data
• Experience Supporting Multiple Dev Teams in Agile Environments.
• Hands-on Experience with CI/CD Pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
• Strong Leadership and Mentorship Skills, fostering best practices in automation.
  

Research shows that some people are less likely to apply for a role unless they are 100% qualified. Your experience, skills and passion will set you apart so tell us about your achievements, irrespective of whether they are personal or work-related, tell us about your journey, and about what you learnt.

So, if this role excites you, don’t let our role description hold you back, get applying!

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Hiring Process

1. First stage interview - Engineering manager and Senior Engineering manager
2. Techincal interview - QA Engineer and Engineering Manager
3. Culture interview - Technology Director and People Partner

Support – If you have a medical condition or an individual need for an adjustment to our process, and you believe this may affect your ability to be at your best – please let us know so we can talk about how we can best support you and make any adjustments that may be needed.

Our Values

We look for people who share our values and can add to our culture. Values are shared beliefs that guide our decision-making, culture is how we function as a group and how we live our values as individuals.

Clear - The energy industry can be pretty complex so we strive to provide clear communication to our customers and colleagues

Honest - Transparency is key, Whether that's providing clear bills to our customers or trusting our staff to do the right thing.

Ambitious - All of us are ambitious about the future of So Energy and what we can contribute to it.

Inquisitive - We are also questioning the Status Quo to see if there is a better way to do things for our customers

Caring - We care about the work we are doing, our customers and our colleagues
Sustainable - As a renewable energy company we are providing sustainable products but we also care about sustainable careers. That's why learning and continuous development is so important to us.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging

At So Energy, we’re committed to cultivating an environment that promotes diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. We are a global community and we believe our unique qualities should be celebrated as they are critical to our innovation. It’s essential to us that you bring your authentic self to work every single day, no matter your age, ethnicity, religion, citizenship, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, caring responsibilities, neurodiversity, or otherwise. Inclusion isn’t just an initiative at So Energy. We strive to embed it not just into our values but throughout our entire culture.