Quality Assurance Engineer

Do you have strong knowledge of Software Quality Assurance Methodologies and experience with Test Management Systems? If so, come and join EDF as a Quality Assurance Engineer!

The Opportunity

EDF Wholesale Market Services (WMS) is a core business line within the EDF UK Customers Business that is at the centre of helping Britain achieve Net Zero. It provides industry leading wholesale market services to EDF’s supply and generation business units and to third party energy asset owners. The Quality Assurance team look after the IT Systems used by our wider WMS team who are responsible for managing the wholesale trading in EDF, including our 24/7 Shift Trading Team.

We are looking for a talented Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer to play a crucial role in ensuring the quality of internal solutions and those developed in collaboration with our external partners.  

Pay, benefits and culture

Alongside a salary of circa £43,200 (depending on experience) and a market-leading pension scheme, we offer a range of flexible benefits to support our people across all aspects of their lives.

Your rewards package includes a choice of benefits, such as electric vehicle leasing, enhanced parental leave, health insurance, discounts and employee pricing.

Flexible working means you can work from home (if you wish) and we’ll provide a suite of IT equipment to ensure that you can work remotely comfortably and effectively. The team travel to our London offices for some meetings as required.

At EDF, everyone’s welcome. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone has a voice and where you feel confident being yourself. We’re committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We’d like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility. 

We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application, making adjustments as you need. 

We’ll value the difference you bring and offer opportunities for you to thrive and succeed.

What you’ll be doing
 

• Reviewing and analysing requirements, specifications, and technical design documents, providing timely feedback
• Producing detailed and well-structured test plans, test cases, traceability matrixes, reports, and other QA documentation
• Implementing and executing manual and automated tests as per the agreed project requirements
• ⁠Participating in meetings and supporting written communication with the Development, Business and QA teams
• Working with stakeholders including PO, BA, and developers to ensure testing is complete in line with business need and agreed deadlines

Who you are

To be successful in the role, we are looking for:
 

• Industry experience in software quality assurance (QA engineer, Software Tester, Test engineer or equivalent)
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes
• Ability to utilise tools such as Jira, Confluence, Miro for effective ticket and documentation management
• Experience with test management systems like TestRail or Zephyr
• Experience with Web testing
• Experience with API testing, preferably REST APIs and tools like Postman, Swagger, JMeter
• DB testing, including AWS (DynamoDB, logs, lambdas), SQL, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, GitHub, Jenkins, Docker for seamless integration
• Automation skills for UI and API testing using tools and technologies like Selenium, Cypress, Python, .NET, React
• Experience with trading, energy or fintech domains will be a significant advantage
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Proactive and able to demonstrate strong ownership
• Comfortable working with ambiguity and with willingness to explore and experiment
• Ability to learn, collaborate and share best practices within a team

We welcome candidates who may not possess every skill listed, as we believe in providing opportunities for growth and learning within our team.

Closing date for applications: 10th July 2024

Location: London/Hybrid

Join us and together we can help Britain achieve Net Zero.