Lead Quality Engineer

Role OVOView

Team: Collections

Salary banding:

Experience: Midlevel

Working pattern: FullTime

Reporting to: Engineering Manager

Sponsorship: Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

This role in 3 words: Advocacy Technical Delivery

Top 3 qualities for this role: Resilience Curiosity Problem Solver

In the words of the team you should leave your current role for this one because.

With the cost of living crisis and increases in the cost of energy more and more people need our help paying their bills. Our systems can have a big impact on our customers and so your expertise in advocating quality and developing and maintaining best practices will be crucial in ensuring the reliability and resilience of our software.Youll also get one day every two weeks to focus on your own projects allowing room for lots of personal development.

Where youll work:

Depending on the needs of your business area we expect hub based people to be in the office at least once a week and to go to OVO Connection events inperson.

Youll be assigned to the closest one of our three hub offices Bristol Glasgow or London; unless your role requires fieldbased work. Each hub has accessible spaces to park your laptop is designed to inspire people help them connect and bring big ideas to life.

Everyone belongs at OVO

At OVO we are on a mission to solve one of humanitys biggest challenges the climate crisis. And we know it takes all of us to change the world. Thats why we need diverse people from all gender identities ethnicities ages sexual orientations life experiences and backgrounds to join us.

Teamworking for the planet

Everything we do here spins around Plan Zero. So naturally the team youll be joining plays a gigantic role in making that happen. Heres how:

The team is working to streamline existing processes and build new features that help and support our customers bringin fantastic customer experiences saving them and us time and effort.

This role in a nutshell:

Youll be working in a team that builds and maintains the Collections solutions here at OVO Energy that is systems that manage and support people that have not paid their bills. Your primary responsibility will be to advocate for quality best practice at all stages in the development process. This may include ensuring there is a comprehensive suite of tests covering various aspects including API Front End endtoend (E2E) nonfunctional testing performance benchmarking and stress testing. In addition your daytoday tasks may include participating in collaborative meetings solving complex problems reporting bugs executing tests within a pipeline and providing mentorship to other engineers.

Your key outcomes will be:

• Apply design and develop automated testing strategies and build on our automated testing framework.
• Design test environments and the complex data structures that they will require.
• To work as part of an Agile team on highprofile projects and deliverables that are key to the success of the business.
• Be involved in product design to ensure test coverage meets end user requirements.
• Be an advocate for the shifting left approach.
• Ensure the quality of new features against the supported platforms with a wide range of permutations.
• Assist the writing of user stories a ensuring acceptance criteria cover all edge cases and use cases collaboratively with our developers and product team
• Drive the evolution of the Tech Team by enhancing our processes and how we report on them.
• Effectively build relationships and collaborate with the Engineering Team and Business Stakeholders. Liaise with key stakeholders in the business across multiple streams of work.
• Working closely with developers to report bugs and drive through a resolution.

Systems: PythonSQLBigQueryTypeScriptPlaywrightDataDog Mac/LinuxK6PostmanGithub Actions

Youll be a successful Lead QA Automation Engineer at OVO if you

• Love carving new ways of working and being open to trying new things
• Are an advocate of the shift left approach and enjoy working collaboratively with the team
• Enjoy solving complex problems and following testing solutions from theory to completion
• Get a buzz from helping others around you

Lets talk about whats in it for you

Well pay you between 46220 and 66557 depending on your specific skills and experience.

We keep our pay ranges broad on purpose to give us and you flexibility to match your experience to our zero carbon mission.

Youll be eligible for an ontarget bonus of 15. We have one OVO bonus plan that focuses on the collective performance of our people to deliver our Plan Zero goal.

We also offer plenty of green benefits and progressive policies to help you feel like you belong at OVOand theres flex pay. Well give you 9 Flex Pay on top of your salary 4 of this is auto enrolled into your pension and the remaining 5 is yours to do what you like with. You can use this to buy from our extensive range of flexible benefits including our green benefits which weve put at the heart of our offering add to your pension or even take it as cash.

Heres a taster of whats on offer:

For starters youll get 34 days of holiday (including bank holidays).

For your health
With benefits like a healthcare cash plan or private medical insurance depending on your career level critical illness cover life assurance health assessments and more

For your wellbeing
With gym membership travel insurance workplace ISA will writing services dental insurance and more

For your lifestyle
With extra holiday buying discount dining home & tech loans and supporting your favourite charities with giveasyouearn donations

For your home
Get up to 400 towards any OVO Energy plan plus great discounts on solar smart thermostats and EV chargers

For your commute
Nab a great deal on ultralow emission car leasing plus our cycle to work scheme and public transport season ticket loans

Want to hear about our full range of flexible benefits and progressive people policies Our People Team can tell you everything you need to know.

For your Belonging

To find better ways to support our people we need to listen to each others experiences and find ways to build a truly inclusive and diverse workplace. As part of this we have 8 Belonging Networks at OVO. Led by our people for our people so when you join OVO you can play a part big or small with any of the Networks. Its up to you.

Oh and one last thing...

Wed be thrilled if you tick off all our boxes yet we also believe its just as important we tick off all of yours. And if you think you have most of what were looking for but not every single thing go ahead and hit apply. Wed still love to hear from you!

If you have any additional requirements theres a space to let us know on the application form; we want to make the process as easy and comfortable for you as possible..