QA Engineer

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Team: OVO Drive

Salary banding: 46220 - 66557

Experience: Experienced

Working pattern: Full-Time

Reporting to: Android Lead - OVO Drive

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

This role in 3 words: Instrumental Exciting Detailed

Top 3 qualities for this role: Curiosity Confidence Collaborative

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 in-person.

Youll be assigned to the closest one of our three hub offices Bristol Glasgow or London; unless your role requires field-based 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:

Weve made good progress on the UKs path to net zero. But we can do better. Research shows that 100% renewable energy tariffs arent actually making the grid greener. We have to go further. We need to save energy use power at smarter times of the day and look at other ways to help our customers reduce their carbon footprint.

Thats where OVO Drive comes in its our dedicated electric vehicle business. We already provide hardware installations home & public charging but we want so much more we want to build a single app experience that covers everything an EV driver could need. This role will play a huge part in that.

We work like a start up - using our entrepreneurial OVO Way spirit to drive us forward. And well be flexible about how we do it - trying new things growing the ones that work and learning new green skills as we go.

This role in a nutshell:

Sitting in the OVO Drive business this role will support the development of the wide array of products targeted at EV Drivers from end to end. This includes defining and refining the teams QA strategy building out our test automation suite and manually testing builds.

Your key outputs will be:

• Setting quality standards with Software Engineers and building out the tools and processes that will ensure we meet them
• Understanding customer pain points and ways in which they can be mitigated
• Collaborate with product managers to plan and prioritise work
• Accountability for timely and reliable delivery of your work.
• Supporting the team to guarantee high system uptime and reliability
• Work alongside commercial and technical teams to ensure that we get the most value out of our work
• probably many more things we cant even predict at this point

Youll be a successful QA Engineer at OVO Drive if you

• Proven QA Engineering experience
• Have experience working with Native Mobile applications
• Are keen to take on the responsibility of defining new processes for the team
• Have experience in a fast pace growth environment
• Have strong knowledge of mobile testing automation tools
• Are an organised person with strong time management skills
• Professional experience with a cloud provider preferably AWS
• Are passionate about product and user experience customers are at the heart of everything you do! Strong commercial thinking is a plus!
• Youll have a strong desire to have impact

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 on-target 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 give-as-you-earn 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 ultra-low 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.