QA Engineer (Bilingual - Japanese & English)

Help us use technology to make a big green dent in the universe!

Kraken powers some of the most innovative global developments in energy.

We’re a technology company focused on creating a smart, sustainable energy system. From optimising renewable generation, creating a more intelligent grid and enabling utilities to provide excellent customer experiences, our operating system for energy is transforming the industry around the world in a way that benefits everyone.

It’s a really exciting time in energy. Help us make a real impact on shaping a better, more sustainable future.

As we enter the stage of rapid commercialisation and customer growth we are now looking for an exceptional QA (Quality Assurance) engineer to help shape, refine and deliver our engineering quality strategy with being curious in nature and innovative in your approach regarding how to maximise quality.

We see the QA Engineer as a key collaborative role within our development teams, working with each team member - Product Owner; Developers and Designers - you will ensure quality is thoughtfully examined in both process and technology. As a hands-on member of the team, you will actively contribute to our test automation coverage and encourage all teammates to weave quality into the mindsets and code.

What you'll do

• Operate as both a “Doer” and a “Thinker”, fulfilling quality commitments as well as contributing to and driving efforts to enhance the testing coverage of the team
• Provide input for and champion testability, collaborating with the development teams to mentor and educate them in good testing practices to improve quality
• Be the ambassador for quality and collaborate with our talented software engineers to produce, enhance and release products that excel the expectations of our global client base
• Be working at the forefront of a fully-fledged Agile environment embracing continuous delivery and improvements
• Implement key quality principle like Test Pyramid for all development teams to follow, including our approach to cross-functional requirements such as security & performance
• Be hands-on help enhance teams automation testing coverage and observability
• Participate in agile ceremonies and help influence quality process involvements within the teams
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of the team’s Quality testing approach and help influence; share and learn culture within the teams around quality.

What you'll need

• Experience working in a Japanese testing/QA environment is highly desirable
• Bring an ability and desire to address testing and process problems at their root, stepping back where appropriate to understand the broader context and apply creative solutions
• Be a quality advocate who brings a track record of positively influencing peers and colleagues and driving continuous improvement at a team level
• Solid understanding of best practices such as TDD, BDD, CI/CD and the Test Pyramid
• Have expert understanding of the challenges of testing complex, highly performing and high quality software systems
• Experience working in an agile/lean software development process and with code management & deployment strategies
• An understanding of secure coding approaches & testing applications from a security perspective in order to deliver secured quality software to our clients
• An understanding of approaches to building and testing for performance, including testing API performance e.g. Locust, K6, Gatling
• Experience working in an agile/lean software development process and with code management & deployment strategies
• You can apply your ‘test’ mindset to exploring and understanding other teammates’ perspectives and can foster a common idea of quality.
• Preferably experience with Typescript and/or Python
• Business level Japanese language skills

Why else you'll love it here

• Wondering what the salary for this role is? Just ask us! On a call with one of our recruiters it's something we always cover as we genuinely want to match your experience with the correct salary. The reason why we don't advertise is because we honestly have a degree of flexibility and would never want salary to be a reason why someone doesn't apply to Octopus - what's more important to us is finding the right octofit!
• Octopus Energy is a unique culture. An organisation where people learn, decide, and build quicker. Where people work with autonomy, alongside a wide range of amazing co-owners, on projects that break new ground. We want your hard work to be rewarded with perks you actually care about! We won best company to work for in 2022, on Glassdoor we were voted 50 best places to work in 2022 and our Group CEO, Greg has recordeda podcast about our culture and how we empower our people
• Visit our perks hub - Octopus Employee Benefits