Test Automation Developer

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 with test automation and execution, manual testing 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 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.

Responsible for test automation and data creation

As a responsible for automation testing and test data creation, you will suggest the overall approach for automation testing and align it with the Nordic RCC test strategy and approach, you will support and guide your other colleagues-testers, closely align with business experts 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 and project managers on test plans, reporting and documentation. Ensure that testing processes are seamlessly interwoven in the project management processes.
• Suggest, set up and align the test automation framework and approach with the Nordic RCC test strategy and approach.
• In alignment with the NRCC Test Manager, support the shift-left testing.  
• Identification of the manual tests that can be automated and moved to the lower levels of the test pyramid in close cooperation with business experts and development team.
• Create, provide and test the test data and analyze the test data (manual & automated process).
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to determine the required level of testing based on risk factors in different phases of the project and risk appetite of the industry and each of the Nordic RCC customers.
• Translate business requirements into testable requirements.
• Design, develop and maintain the test automation scripts.
• End-to-end test automation (ISTQB).
• Automated integration testing.
• Integrate contract- and integrations tests in continuous delivery pipeline.
• Analyze and report test results and defects, track them through resolution and ensure transparency through the reporting.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest testing tools and technologies and share knowledge with the team. Align with the Architecture board on the company-wide use of any tools. 

Your qualification

Proactive position with outstanding attention to detail and excellent communication skills

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

The ideal candidate is expected to have a minimum of 6 years of test automation experience, an education at BA or MA level in computer science or engineering, but experience from a similar role is more important.

Technical skills:

• Languages used for scripting such as JS, C#, Python, Ruby, SQL.
• Test management tools – JIRA, Azure DevOps, etc.
• Software testing tools (e.g. Katalon studio, xunit, mstest, jUnit, Selenium, Playwright and Cucumber etc.).
• Collaborate with internal and external development teams in automation testing as part of their 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).
• It is an advantage if you have knowledge of the energy sector.

Additional details

Employment conditions 

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.

The job requires security clearance which will be facilitated by Nordic RCC.