Senior QA Automation Engineer

Wärtsilä Energy leads the transition towards a 100% renewable energy future. We help our partners to accelerate their decarbonisation journeys through our market-leading technologies and power system modelling expertise. These cover decarbonisation services, future-fuel enabled balancing power plants, hybrid solutions, energy storage and optimisation technology, including the GEMS Digital Energy Platform.

Did you know Wärtsilä has delivered 79 GW of power plant capacity and more 125 energy storage installations in 180 countries around the world?

In this fast changing world of energy, we are constantly on the lookout for future-oriented talent to join our team and to work towards enabling sustainable societies through innovation in technology and services - together. Want to join the ride?

Responsibilities:

•    Help design new techniques and tests that automate the system-level testing of our software products
•    Implement or extend an existing QA automation platform to test all aspects (both functional and performance) of our software products.
•    Test system of back-end/front-end/cloud technologies, with the goal of continuously improving automation and manual test coverage.
•    Learn all aspects of the GEMS platform and solutions, help test new or complex features on upcoming projects to ensure smooth delivery.
•    Focus on our smart grid and renewable energy control logic, applications, and solutions.
•    Participate in an agile development environment.
•    Participate in customer facing discussions, meetings, and project delivery.

Requirements:

•    A passion for product quality and testing.
•    Knowledge and experience of system automation and common tools and libraries.  
•    Experience testing back-end, front-end and cloud technologies.
•    Experience troubleshooting software issues with the goal of finding the root cause.
•    Ability to identify tests that will bring value if automated and tests that are a better value to do manually.
•    Strong knowledge of Python and object-oriented programming
•    Good communication and documentation skills.
•    Knowledge and experience with Linux, Docker, and common system maintenance tools.
•    Knowledge and experience with TCP/IP networking.
•    Experience working in an agile development environment using common tools such as JIRA and Git.
•    Comfortable in a fast-moving environment and the ability to quickly adapt to changes in priorities.
•    Any knowledge and/or interest in electrical concepts, power grids, renewable or green energy is always a plus.
     Educational / Professional Requirements:
•    B.S. Degree in Computer Science, Engineering (Computer, Electrical, Mechanical), or I.T.

We offer You:

•    Competitive salary and significant upside in your career path as we are growing very fast.
•    Dynamic, technology centric working environment within a very focused solution team.
•    Opportunity to contribute to world’s leading software applications with lasting impacts on green energy and smart grid industry over 70+ countries.
 

Last application date: 10.06.2025

At Wärtsilä we value, respect and embrace all our differences, and are committed to diversity, inclusion and equal employment opportunities; everyone can be their true self and succeed based on their job-relevant merits and abilities. 

This is Wärtsilä 

Wärtsilä is a global leader in innovative technologies and lifecycle solutions for the marine and energy markets. Our team of 17,800 professionals, in more than 280 locations in 79 countries, shape the decarbonisation transformation of our industries across the globe. Read more on www.wartsila.com. 
 

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