Graduate Software Tester

Are you a tech-savvy individual ready to kickstart your career in the dynamic world of IT consulting? Do you possess a passion for problem-solving and a hunger for continuous learning? Look no further! We’re on the lookout for a highly motivated Graduate Software Tester to join our thriving team in Milton Keynes.

We are looking for enthusiastic and motivated graduates who are keen to build a career in our Solution Delivery team working to create, enhance and support great products that are critical to our customers. In return you will find a supportive and talented team to work with, in a company that respects, trusts, and invests in their employees.

As a Graduate Software Tester,

you will benefit from remote and office based working, within a team of highly skilled engineers across various disciplines.

You will be working in an agile scrum environment which adheres to scrum values, delivering significant change to our products.

You will be directly involved in designing, developing, testing and delivering of great new features and improvements that the team is expected to champion, support and evolve.

We are passionate about developing software applications that make a real difference in the energy market. We build platforms that provide pricing, billing, and supply management for large B2B Electricity suppliers, with business process automation, data analytics and flexible integration architecture. Our energy and carbon management platform delivers great energy management tools with a mission to support customers to reduce energy consumption, analyse bills for cost recovery and reduce emissions to support green initiatives and achieve net-zero ambitions.

We operate in a sector that is undergoing rapid change, with organisations aiming to reduce their carbon emissions and electricity suppliers seeking more innovative solutions for their customers. EDW Technology, as a UK leader in technology for the energy market, is ideally placed to help our customers adapt in this rapidly changing sector, as we move to a more sustainable future.

Graduate Software Tester

Requirements

You are interested in business critical, scalable applications using modern technologies, on a mixture of cloud and on-premise platforms

You collaborate well within a team and are motivated to learn new technologies and understand existing software platforms, so that you can help shape them in the future

You have a desire to learn and understand how energy retail and carbon management industries work, to help us build game changing solutions

You have strong communication skills and are comfortable engaging with a wide range of stakeholders

Languages/Specs: Java/Groovy, SQL, Swagger/OpenAPI

Interfaces: Web, API, Messages/Events, DB

Dev Lifecyle: Maven, GIT/BitBucket, Jira Cloud, Zephyr, ReadyAPI, jMeter

Testing Types: API, Web, Security/PEN, Performance & Scalability, Thick Client, Integration, Automated, Compliance

Command line: Linux shell/Bash

Graduate Software Tester Benefits:

£26,500 per annum

Employee Ownership Profit Share bonus scheme (annual)

Hybrid Working – home and office-based role

Home office IT equipment provided

Health cash plan including family cover

Employee Wellbeing Programme

Life Assurance

Stakeholder Pension - Salary Sacrifice

Perks at Work Shopping Discounts

Flexible holidays

Cycle Salary Sacrifice Scheme

Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice Scheme

Company funded social events and team building

Free on-site parking

Relaxed office dress code

About us

EDW Technology, established in 1995, is an innovative IT company specialising in the energy sector.  Having acquired TEAM Energy in 2017, a company specialising in energy management software and services, we are well placed to become a leading software and service provider in our related sectors of energy retail and energy management.

In 2019 we moved into employee ownership, meaning that all our employees share in the success of our business through a profit share scheme.

Our vision is to help all our customers contribute to the delivery of the UK’s net zero objectives by delivering products and services that enable successful and optimal carbon and energy management.

To be considered for this role, you must have eligibility to work in the UK without sponsorship