QA Automation Lead

• Experience building, maintaining and enhancing test automation frameworks, using tools and languages such as Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Playwright or Cypress.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals (design patterns, API design, data structures) in Python, TypeScript or similar, with experience automating tests using APIs.
• Knowledge of improving test data management, users and scenarios for ease of testing, and of working with developers to review automated unit and integration tests.
• Previous management experience, leading and coaching engineers across test cases
• A solid understanding of the SDLC, Agile methology and QA process.
• Experience using AI tools, such as LLM-based coding assistants and agent frameworks, as part of a pipeline, along with an understanding of prompt engineering and LLM evaluation techniques (faithfulness, relevance, LLM-as-a-judge), since traditional pass/fail assertions don’t translate well to AI agent testing.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, able to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences and to collaborate with multiple stakeholders towards a common goal.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a solution-oriented mindset, with the willingness to speak up, highlight areas for improvement and suggest solutions.

• Experience building or integrating AI agents, such as LangChain, AutoGen, custom agent frameworks or MCP-based tooling.
• Experience working with or testing AI-generated code, models or agents, covering both deterministic validation (is the generated code correct?) and non-deterministic evaluation (is the AI’s behaviour acceptable?).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated testing into deployment workflows.
• Knowledgade of Jira and test management tools such as XRay.

Level: C3

Team: Quality

Contract: Permanent

Please note: This role requires an existing right to work in the UK. We can’t offer visa sponsorship, but we review sponsorship role by role, so keep an eye on our careers site for future opportunities.

• Play to win: Collective pride in decarbonising energy at scale.
• Solve the real problem: Cutting through complexity to focus on real-world outcomes.
• Build trust every day: Consistency, transparency and doing what we say.
• Own the outcome: Full accountability, wins and setbacks, without ego.
• Go further together: Collaboration, respect and different perspectives.

• Time off and family: 26 days’ holiday, plus 26 weeks’ full pay for new parents with no qualifying service period
• Health and security: Private medical insurance with virtual GP, life assurance, pension scheme, free mortgage advice and eye tests
• Pay and flexibility: Discretionary bonus, a Flex Fund of 5% [of salary] to spend on the benefits you want most, retail discounts through Perks at Work
• Growth and setup: Personal learning budget, home office budget
• Climate: Furthr, our climate action app

We want to meet people from all walks of life. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be, and we recognise talent on merit and potential. If you’re excited about the role but don’t tick every box, we’d still love to hear from you.

Find out more on our careers page https://www.kaluza.com/careers/ and LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/kaluza/. Our Applicant Data Protection Policy is here https://www.kaluza.com/applicant-data-protection-notice/.

Kaluza is the Energy Intelligence Platform, turning energy complexity into seamless coordination. We help energy companies overcome today’s challenges while accelerating the shift to a clean, electrified future.

Our platform orchestrates millions of real-time decisions across homes, devices, markets and grids. By combining predictive algorithms with human-centred design, Kaluza makes clean energy dependable, affordable and adaptive to everyday life.

With teams across Europe, Asia and Australia, and a joint venture with Mitsubishi Corporation in Japan, we power leading companies including OVO, AGL and ENGIE, as well as innovators like Volvo and Volkswagen.