QA Engineer

QA Engineer

Location: United States

Job Description:

About Ascend

Ascend Analytics‘ climate technology software and services provide critical insights to power the energy transition. The company’s products enhance critical power supply decisions from short-term operating strategies to long-term investment and resource planning. Ascend’s solutions serve as the core analytic infrastructure for electric utilities, independent power producers, electric retailers, and financiers of energy infrastructure. To learn more about Ascend, please visit us at www.ascendanalytics.com.

Your Impact at Ascend Analytics

We are seeking an experienced QA Engineer to join our PowerSIMM team in Boulder, Colorado. As a QA Engineer, you will be instrumental in ensuring the integrity and reliability of our application and data. You will work closely with our developers, data engineers, and analysts to write, execute, and maintain tests and scripts focused on our analytics code and processes. Your efforts will ensure that our applications remain bug-free.

Job Responsibilities

• Test Development & Execution: Write, execute, and maintain comprehensive tests and scripts designed to validate our application code, pipelines, and processes.
• Data Validation: Develop and perform automated and manual tests to ensure data accuracy, consistency, and completeness across all systems.
• Process Monitoring: Monitor data flows and processes to identify and resolve any discrepancies or issues in real-time.
• Test Automation: Implement and maintain automated testing frameworks to streamline the quality assurance processes.
• Documentation: Document test cases, procedures, and results in order to maintain and communicate our quality assurance coverage and execution. Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams to understand requirements, provide feedback, and contribute to overall quality improvements.
• Continuous Improvement: Stay updated on the latest QA methodologies and tools, and continuously seek to improve testing strategies and processes.

Required Qualifications

• BS in Engineering, Computer Science, Data/Information Science, Mathematics, or a related field
• 4+ years of hands-on experience in a similar position
• Professional Testing/Development experience involving UI and API Automation
• Ability to thrive in an Agile Scrum environment with remote teammates
• Ability to investigate, isolate, and solve technical issues across the full technology stack by using automated & manual testing methodologies
• A desire and curiosity about learning innovative technologies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using, testing, and debugging JavaScript, React, C#, and Python
• Knowledge of the energy industry, markets, and terminology
• Experience in a DevOps environment with CI/CD tools
• Experience working with relational data via Oracle, Postgres, and/or SQL Server

Compensation: $75,000 – $105,000

Negotiable based on qualifications and experience. Ascend highly values our employees and often pays above industry average.

We offer flexible work hours in a relaxed environment with opportunities for advancement and excellent benefits, including medical, dental, vision, short- and long-term disability, parental leave, dependent care spending account, and a 401k plan.