Manual Development Tester & QA Tester

About Electricity Maps

This vacancy is provided by Copenhagen Capacity.

Electricity Maps is an API platform providing real-time and predictive electricity signals allowing any device to reduce their cost and emissions by informing them about the best time to consume electricity.

We’re, for example, used by Google to change the time and location of their datacenter energy usage, or by Samsung devices in their SmartThings Energy App (read more about our customer stories here). We recently raised €5M to accelerate our growth and are backed by world-class investors with experience from Unity, Zendesk, Datadog, Hugging Face, DocuSign and more.

The role is based in Copenhagen, one of the most live-able cities in the world.

Position

Do you have experience manual test and creation of test data? Are you open-minded and enjoy working in a diverse and international team? And are you eager to be part of something new and meaningful? 

Then you might be just the person we are looking for. Join a fast-developing Nordic company determined to make a significant impact in the energy sector and become a part of an agile environment with many and ongoing deadlines. 

Nordic RCC A/S is an important contributor to the green energy transition supporting the national transmission system operators to ensure the efficient operation of the Nordic Electricity Power System and high security of power supply at any time. 

Our values of fellowship, curiosity, respect, and transparency have been defined by all employees. They identify how we behave and shape the way we work together, and we expect you to see yourself in them.

Responsible for test technical manual testing and data creation 

As a responsible for manual testing and test data creation, you will support and guide your other colleagues-testers, closely align with business experts, test managers and project managers. 

Reporting to the Team Lead, Quality Management, your key responsibilities are:

• Secure the collaboration with testers and test managers. 
• Closely collaborate with developers as well as business representatives to secure that test cases cover all requirements and edge cases if needed. Ensure that testing processes are seamlessly interwoven in the development processes and support the delivery model. 
• Closely, collaborate with product owners, project managers and test managers on test plans, reporting and documentation. Ensure that testing processes are seamlessly interwoven in the project management processes. 
• Align with the NRCC Test Manager to support the shift-left testing.  
• Create, analyze, and provide test data. 
• Identify and create detailed test cases and test scripts based on requirements. 
• Execute test cases to ensure software functionality and usability. 
• Manually test software applications to identify defects and issues. 
• Collaborate with development team to reproduce and debug issues. 
• Assist in the development and maintenance of test plans, test suites, and test scenarios. 
• Participate in the design and improvement of quality assurance processes. 
• Integrate contract- and integrations tests in continuous delivery pipeline. 
• Analyse and report test results and defects, track them through resolution and ensure transparency through the reporting. 

Proactive position with outstanding attention to detail and excellent communication skills 

On the personal level you have excellent communication skills, analytical thinking, problem solving and reporting skills. You are a self-driven and proactive person, responsible, structured and have a strong focus on finding a solution while being constructive. 

The ideal candidate is expected to have a minimum of 5 years in manual test experience, an education at BA or MA level in computer science or engineering, but experience from a similar role is more important.

Your qualification

• You have a good working knowledge of the energy sector. 
• Collaborate with internal and external development teams in the CI/CD process. 
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, etc), tools, processes, and development cycles (SDLC). 
• Data testing tools (Deequ, Great Expectations (GX), etc). 
• Good understanding of test automation

Preferred Qualifications: 

• ISTQB certification or equivalent 
• Experience with test management tools - Azure DevOps, Jira, etc. 

Additional details

You will join a team of competent, diverse, and enthusiastic colleagues. We are currently 22 nationalities with more than 30% women (striving to improve this balance) and all ages.

Your daily workplace will be in our office premises in Copenhagen Towers, Ørestad. We are offering workplace flexibility to ensure a healthy work-life balance including the possibility for working from home some of your worktime. 

Our values of fellowship, curiosity, respect, and transparency have been defined by all employees. They identify how we behave and shape the way we work together, and we expect you to see yourself in them.