Senior Software Development Engineer in Test, Gentrack
C# / Playwright
2 days a week in office
Cleantech solutions for utilities
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Cleantech solutions for utilities
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
2 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To bring utilities into a sustainable era, relentlessly driving their customers' success by developing better cleantech solutions.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in test automation with strong proficiency in C#/.NET and solid understanding of object-oriented
- Practical experience with Playwright, or equivalent modern UI automation frameworks, with the ability to quickly adapt to our existing Playwright/.NET stack
- Proven ability to extend, enhance, and scale an existing automation framework, improving reliability, coverage, structure, and maintainability over time
- Strong understanding of Blazor-based web applications, including component-level testing, DOM behaviour, async patterns, and working with semantic or ARIA-based locators
- Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or Jenkins), optimising execution and reporting
- Strong understanding of UI, API, and integration testing approaches, with the ability to choose the right tools and techniques for the problem
- Solid SQL/database skills and familiarity with enterprise-level testing
- Experience influencing engineers and teams to adopt quality-first, automation-led ways of working
- Ability to mentor and uplift engineers in automation practices, improving engineering excellence across teams
- Working knowledge of test management tools: JIRA, Zephyr, TestRail
- High energy, initiative, and ownership, especially important as automation is in its early stages
- Ability to influence and bring teams along on the automation journey
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and a consultative approach to quality
- Thrives in fast-paced, evolving Agile environments
- Passionate about improvement, innovation, and raising engineering standards
What the job involves
- We’re seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to join our Engineering teams in London
- This is a hands-on, technical role suited for someone passionate about delivering quality at scale, building reliable test automation, and driving best practices across the SDLC
- As a Senior SDET, you’ll work on enterprise-level platforms in the Utilities space, helping shape our testing strategy, enhance CI/CD pipelines, and deliver robust solutions with speed and precision
- Take full ownership of the existing Playwright + .NET/C# automation framework, enhancing, refining, and extending it to increase coverage and reliability
- Continue building out reusable components, selectors, and abstractions tailored for Blazor applications, ensuring long-term maintainability
- Expand the current automation suite across critical user journeys, regression flows, and integration scenarios
- Drive best practices in UI automation, ensuring consistent patterns, test stability, and efficient executio
- Partner closely with engineers, TTLs, and Product to embed quality earlier in the SDLC and ensure testability is considered during design and development
- Advocate for high-quality engineering standards, including accessibility, ARIA-based selectors, semantic locators, and solid test evidence
- Strengthen the shift-left approach by enabling developers to contribute to automated tests and adopt modern testing techniques
- Integrate, optimise, and maintain automated tests within CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins), ensuring fast feedback and reliable builds
- Improve reporting, parallel execution, and pipeline efficiency to support large-scale automated testing
- Collaborate with teams to resolve automation-related environment issues and ensure smooth execution across development and release cycles
- Work with cross-functional teams across UK & India to improve quality practices, strengthen engineering discipline, and raise automation maturity
- Support defect triage, root cause analysis, and the definition of quality measures
- Mentor and upskill engineers in automation, quality mindset, and modern testing tools
- Gentrackers are a group of smart thinkers and dedicated doers
- We are a diverse team who love our work and the people we work with and who collaborate and inspire each other to deliver creative solutions that make our customers successful
- We are a team that shares knowledge, asks questions, raises the bar, and are expert advisers
- At Gentrack we care about doing honest business that is good for not just customers but families, communities, and ultimately the planet
- Gentrackers continuously look for a better way and drive quality into everything they do
- This is a truly exciting time to join Gentrack with a clear growth strategy and a world class leadership team working to fulfil Gentrack’s global aspirations by having the most talented people, an inspiring culture, and a technology first, people centric business
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Gentrack provides customer relationship management and billing software solutions to the utilities industry. In particular, it focuses on providing modern, 'cleantech' solutions - an approach which allows Gentrack's clients to benefit from both increased efficiency and greater sustainability. As world industries set ambitious net zero carbon targets in response to a mounting climate crisis, Gentrack has found its services consistently in demand since its founding in 1980.
With direct competition from the likes of Ecrion and Apptivo, Gentrack must constantly strive to keep ahead of its rivals. However, its solutions have already been backed by some key clients in the market, with a particularly strong base among energy suppliers in New Zealand and Australia. As energy prices rapidly increase due to political instability in Europe, Gentrack has also expanded its presence strongly in the United Kingdom, forming partnerships with the likes of Marble Power, ENGIE, E.On and npower.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
26% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Mar 2019
$0.2m
SEED
Total funding: $0.2m
Company HQ
London, UK
Additional info
- Further offices in USA, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand.
Leadership
Gary Miles
(CEO)Co-founded jNetX in 2001, where they served as CEO for 8 years. Joined Amdocs in 2009, first as Division President & CTO and then as CMO & President of Business Services. Joined Gentrack in 2020 as CEO.
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