Quality Control Engineer III (Hybrid - Orange, CA)

About this role

Interested in joining a growing company where you will work with talented colleagues, enhance a supportive and energetic culture, and be part of the climate solution? At Energy Solutions, we focus on the big impacts. And we believe that market-based programs can be a powerful force to deliver large-scale energy, carbon, and water-use savings. Since 1995, we’ve harnessed that power to offer proven, performance-based solutions for our utility, government, and institutional customers.

We are seeking a Quality Control Engineer III to join our Information Systems. In this opportunity, you will dive into our core systems—including our vital IRIS platform—to champion the accuracy, reliability, and sheer excellence of complex technology solutions. This isn't just about finding bugs; it’s your opportunity to actively shape our testing philosophies, elevate quality practices, and pioneer robust validation strategies across our entire software and data ecosystem.

Operating with immense independence, you will design, write, and execute brilliant automated and manual tests, tackling complex technical challenges head-on. You will partner dynamically with engineering teams to supercharge test coverage and ensure flawless delivery, while serving as an inspiring technical mentor and peer trainer who elevates junior engineers through hands-on coaching. If you are a seasoned pro with sharp automation skills who can develop automated UI tests with minimal ramp-up and a passion for driving long-term process evolution, we want you to lead the charge in our quality revolution.

The person filling this role will be required to work in a hybrid work environment adjacent to one of our offices in Oakland, CA; Orange, CA; New York, NY; Portland, OR; Boston, MA; or Chicago, IL

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Design, execute, and maintain manual and automated test approaches for software features, workflows, and integrated systems

• Develop and enhance automated testing frameworks and CI/CD quality integrations to improve reliability and scalability

• Design and apply test approaches for assigned projects across functional, regression, integration, performance, and security testing

• Improve and monitor quality metrics for assigned projects to evaluate test effectiveness, defect trends, and coverage

• Partner with engineering teams to integrate testing practices into development, deployment, and release workflows

• Develop, maintain, and execute automated test suites using tools such as Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, or Pytest

• Write and improve automated UI tests based on prior automation experience and team practices

• Perform hands-on testing across assigned systems and projects to identify defects, validate functionality, and reduce delivery risk

• Conduct root cause analysis on recurring issues…