Quality Practice Lead

The CompanyGentrack provides leading utilities across the world with innovative cleantech solutions.

The global pace of change is accelerating, and utilities need to rebuild for a more sustainable future.

Working with some of the world's biggest energy and water companies, as well as innovative challenger brands, we are helping companies reshape what it means to be a utilities business.

We are driven by our passion to create positive impact.

That is why utilities rely on us to drive innovation, deliver great customer experiences, and secure profits.

Together, we are renewing utilities.

Values and CultureColleagues at Gentrack are one big team, working together to drive efficiency in two of the planet's most precious resources, energy, and water.

We are passionate people who want to drive change through technology and believe in making a difference.

Our values drive decisions and how we interact and communicate with customers, partners, shareholders, and each other.

Our core values are

Respect for the planet

Respect for our customers

Respect for each other

Gentrackers are a group of smart thinkers and dedicated doers.

We are a diverse team who love our work and the people we work with and who collaborate and inspire each other to deliver creative solutions that make our customers successful.

We are a team that shares knowledge, asks questions, raises the bar, and are expert advisers.

At Gentrack we care about doing honest business that is good for not just customers but families, communities, and ultimately the planet.

Gentrackers continuously look for a better way and drive quality into everything they do.

This is a truly exciting time to join Gentrack with a clear growth strategy and a world class leadership team working to fulfil Gentrack's global aspirations by having the most talented people, an inspiring culture, and a technology first, people centric business.

The OpportunityAs a Quality Practice Lead, you will lead our quality and testing practices.

You will lead the development and implementation of quality frameworks, drive continuous improvement initiatives, and uplift quality practices across our teams.

You will be expected to contribute and drive the quality strategy and lead the adoption of generative AI tools within Product Development.

Your focus will vary based on business requirements but as a guide it is expected that your time will be split roughly evenly between these activities : quality system improvement, mentoring QA's and engineers, development and testing.

The Specifics

Continually improve the quality of the product and broader engineering system including tooling, processes, documentation and capability.

Providing organisation wide leadership to improve processes and standards to increase quality, productivity, and developer experience.

Shaping the evolution of our testing tools, including stewardship of our suite of automated end to end tests.

Enterprise leadership around quality practices and modern testing

Acting as a positive force by guiding, mentoring and coaching other team members and leading by example.

Internal and external engagement.

As the senior member of technical staff you will work closely with the technical leadership and engineering teams to embed quality practices into workflows.

Software development and testing.

Testing and creating automated tests for software.

Directly contributing to manual testing effort for our engineering teams.

Producing and reviewing design and implementation, working with teams through influence to ensure documentation is high quality and standards are not only met but continuously improving.

Participating in planning, stand-ups, estimation, retrospectives, and backlog grooming as appropriate.

What we're looking for

A highly experienced expert in the Quality domain, with the ability to lead the practice, manage change, and adapt as work evolves.

A gardener in mind — seeds, grows and nurtures people and code.

Appetite for helping others learn.

Experience developing and maintaining code bases with test automation tools (Jest, Cypress, etc)

Experience with one or more prominent programming languages (C#, Typescript, C / C++) is beneficial.

Other helpful skills

Understanding of the energy industry, including key companies.

Seniority level

Associate

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Consulting

Information Technology

Sales

Industries

IT Services and IT Consulting

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