Senior QA Contractor

The Company

As climate change forces the world to change priorities, we’ve changed ours.

LoweConex, a division of Lowe Corporation, is a patented, award-winning, cloud-based Centralised Data Platform offering innovative energy management techniques and cutting-edge automation protocols. Our technology is helping our customers reduce their environmental impact and meet energy reduction and carbon emission targets ahead of schedule.

The Role

Our QA Contractor will play a crucial role, for c.3 months with possible extension, in ensuring the quality and reliability of our enterprise solution that enable real-time monitoring and control of IoT devices for leading global brands. As part of a dynamic and forward-thinking team, our QA Contractor will ensure that our systems deliver seamless scalability, exceptional performance, and a first-class user experience in a fast-paced industry.

As technology rapidly evolves, so does our approach to quality assurance. Our QA Contractor will be tasked with ensuring that our customers can make real-time, data-driven decisions with confidence, using accurate and reliable IoT device insights. Additionally, we integrate data science and AI/ML cloud services to derive deep business insights from historical data, making quality assurance critical in delivering these advanced solutions.

LoweConex Engineers work in a collaborative, agile environment, employing best practices to drive the development of solutions that are scalable, sustainable, and impactful. Our team plays a key role in maintaining the high standards that keep us ahead in the evolving world of IoT.

If you are passionate about innovation and excited to ensure quality in complex, cutting-edge technology, we would love to have you on our team.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute comprehensive test strategies and plans to ensure the quality, performance, and scalability of IoT platform solutions.
• Provide technical insights in the QA team, collaborating with developers and key contributors to test and validate the architecture of a global multi-cloud/multi-region IoT platform.
• Influence testing practices and contribute to continuous process improvements, driving the adoption of QA best practices throughout the project lifecycle.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure that changes are properly tested and validated before being applied to the platform.
• Ensure that SDLC processes are followed and optimized to deliver highly reliable software solutions within a 24/7 DevSecOps cloud environment.
• Validate non-functional enterprise requirements, such as performance, security, and compliance, while supporting decision-making in partnership with technical leadership.
• Providing technical direction to junior QAs when problem-solving complex issues.
• Conduct research and proof-of-concept (POC) testing on new tools, technologies, and testing methodologies.
• Participate in the CICD development pipelines, ensuring automated testing is integrated into modern test and delivery techniques.

Essential Criteria

• Significant experience in software quality assurance, with a focus on ensuring high standards of reliability and performance.
• Demonstrable experience with core testing methodologies, automation frameworks, and QA tools.
• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience, MSc or higher is preferred.
• Proven ability to design and execute detailed, effective test plans and cases.
• Experience in writing clean, maintainable, and reusable test automation scripts.

Desirable Criteria

• ISTQB or similar.
• Experience testing multi-threaded applications and familiarity with Java libraries such as Spring.
• Knowledge of IoT platforms, such as AWS IoT Core, IoT Hub, or PTC IoT.
• Experience with CICD and cloud operations tools, including Jenkins, Argo, and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with enterprise security and compliance testing processes and tools.
• Experience with collaboration tools such as Confluence, JIRA, or other Atlassian products.