Automation QA Lead

EnerNOC is an innovative leader in the clean energy technology space, utilizing cutting edge J2EE, Oracle, and Linux technologies. We are a rapidly growing company in terms of revenues, technology, employees, and market. Our core mission is to reduce the risk of electric grid blackouts and brownouts by remotely controlling thousands of electric customers' equipment when a regional grid operator declares an emergency.

Our software is essential to automatically controlling thousands of individual customer sites simultaneously within seconds. Since electric service to millions of people is in our hands, ensuring that new software projects are deployed in a consistent, high quality manner is of utmost importance.

Position Overview:

EnerNOC has an immediate need for an Automation QA Lead, who will be responsible for leading, defining and maintaining the Automation Quality Assurance team. Successful candidates will have to take control of the Automation process and all the related technologies, environment and scenarios (including load-testing) required to ensure successful development life-cycle and delivery.

Responsibilities:

• Acting as lead for the Automation Quality Assurance team, including delegating tasks, monitoring/reviewing performance, managing against team objectives and motivating individual contributors
• Owning the automated testing process and ensuring that testing methods meet requirements and specifications
• Creating test plans and test scripts for upcoming releases, maintaining current automation test scripts, and monitoring related projects
• Coordinating the automation of new and existing functionality with the manual and automation testing teams
• Assisting in ongoing process improvement efforts to ensure test planning, execution, and reporting methods are effective, efficient, standardized, coordinated, and integrated
• Working with both development and the QA team to design and implement testing/business requirements quickly and efficiently with a focus on automation and documentation
• Running all automation scripts for new functionality and regression testing
• Working with the QA team to debug and enhance automation and the test bed
• Designing test strategies, developing test tools and implementing test cases to ensure highest quality deliverables
• Working closely with Engineering to understand the Product Architecture and identifying, designing, or enhancing existing test frameworks to support backend test development

Qualifications:

• 5 - 10 years of experience in software testing and quality assurance, including a minimum 3 years in a leadership role
• BS/BA in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent years of experience in quality assurance
• Strong working knowledge of Mercury QTP and keyword driven automated frameworks
• Extensive experience testing multi-tiered web application products
• Strong familiarity with QA methodologies and strong software test skills and demonstrated ability to create a successful application test strategy including test case development and test case management
• Demonstrated ability to set and verify milestone release criteria
• Solid experience designing, deploying and maintaining test environments, test automation, and performance testing
• Black box and white box experience and expertise
• Desire to learn new technologies
• Ability to work independently, as well as within a team
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Familiarity with bug tracking tools
• Strong technical aptitude, leadership capability, intimate knowledge of the software development life cycle, and a proven track record in delivering projects
• Ability to coordinate activities for multiple projects

Desired Qualifications/Skills/Education:

• Experience working in the energy management industry is a big plus, but not required.
• Knowledge of relational databases

EnerNOC, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.