Senior Energy Analytics Quality Assurance Engineer

Key Skills

Algorithms, Apache Airflow, Bitbucket, Git, Github, JIRA, Machine learning techniques, Postgres, R Programming, SQL, SVN, UI design, UX design

Job Description

ABOUT GELI

Geli (Growing Energy Labs, Inc.) provides software and business solutions to design, connect, and operate energy storage systems ranging in size from residential to utility-scale, as well as grid-tied, microgrid, and off-grid systems. Geli’s suite of products creates an ecosystem where project developers, OEMs, financiers, and project operators can deploy advanced energy projects using a seamless hardware-agnostic software platform.

Geli is a subsidiary of Hanwha Q CELLS, one of the world’s largest photovoltaic manufacturers most recognized for its high-performance, high-quality solar cells and modules.

OUR VISION

Geli is committed to helping make the planet a cleaner, better place to live, both with our software products and through our everyday actions.

Imagine a world where there is less reliance on non-renewable power, where you source your electricity from your neighbors rather than from power stations hundreds of miles away and software makes the best possible use of the solar, wind, and battery storage available. This is our vision.

We are looking for enthusiastic colleagues that are not only fluent in technology, but also share our vision of a world running on 100% renewable energy.

Geli (Growing Energy Labs, Inc) is seeking a Senior Energy Analytics Quality Assurance Engineer to test our design platform tools. The design platform is an essential part of Geli’s software stack, allowing sales consultants, analytics engineers and data scientists to replicate results from our production software over years-long horizons to provide estimates to customers, conduct analysis and benchmark algorithms. As a Quality Assurance Engineer, you will help test our software and provide confidence in our estimates.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• This role is primarily focused on running feature and regression testing of Geli’s simulations platform, which includes:
• Keeping up-to-date on development plans and working with developers and data scientists to determine test cases, scenarios and criteria for new features.
• Adding new simulations test cases, running tests and retrieving results via our internal Airflow UI.
• Retrieving results from Postgres databases via SQL.
• Analyzing results in the form of bills, plots and other outputs to check for correct behavior of our simulated batteries.
• Keep track of issues and work with developers to resolve issues in a timely manner.
• Document results on Confluence and in JIRA.
• Proactively find and act on opportunities to improve and refine our process, including automation of test cases.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE & SKILLS

• Bachelor’s degree preferably in engineering, environmental science, economics, or a stats-intensive field
• Knowledge of distributed energy resources (PV, storage, EVs), their applications, and renewable energy.
• Understanding of electricity markets, tariff structures, and renewable incentives
• Proficiency in Python 3.6
• Experience writing configurations using JSON, yaml or xml files
• Experience writing SQL queries
• Systematic and methodological approach to tasks
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including producing detailed documentation

DESIRED EXPERIENCE & SKILLS

• Hands on experience with software release cycle and version control tools like GIT, Github, Bitbucket, SVN, etc.
• Experience with Airflow (including plugins).
• Familiarity with machine learning and optimization algorithms and concepts.
• Knowledge and experience with QA methodologies, processes, tools
• Experience methodically developing use-cases and test cases
• Hands-on working experience with defect tracking tools like Bugzilla and JIRA

BENEFITS OF WORKING AT GELI

Competitive salary commensurate with experience

Competitive benefits offerings

Conveniently accessible location in downtown San Francisco

Flexible work-from-home-office opportunities, as determined by the position and job duties

Cigna and Kaiser options - available by region

Cigna Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans, both have options with a $0 paycheck contribution

Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)

Company Paid (Health Savings Account) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High Deductible Cigna medical plan

Company-paid Basic Life, AD&D, short-term, and long-term disability insurance

Voluntary benefits include: critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance

401(k) with a 4% employer match

3 weeks of paid Parental Leave

Sick time- 72 hours frontloaded per calendar year

Vacation time (Flex time), and 13 Paid Holidays

Health Advocate wellness and concierge services

Wellness programs with our benefits providers

Commuter benefits

EAP

Bereavement leave- 5 paid days

WORK ENVIRONMENT

Make a difference: join a group of people who are passionate about renewable energy

Have an impact: the company is still small enough that everyone’s contribution has a significant impact on the success of the company

Many opportunities to lead teams, and projects, and contribute to development

Casual professional working environment: there’s no need to dress up, just present your best self

Work collaboratively in a diverse environment- we commit to reaching better decisions by respecting opinions and working through disagreements

DIVERSITY

We value the insights that a diverse team can bring. We encourage applications from members of groups that have been traditionally underrepresented in tech.

Growing Energy Labs, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics.