Job Description

Customized Energy Solutions (CES), a privately-held company, is a leading service provider of market intelligence and operational support services to companies participating in the retail and wholesale electric and natural gas markets. Utilizing deep know-how developed since the inception of the deregulated energy markets, CES advances the growth of energy retailers by providing an end-to-end comprehensive offering of hosted solutions, expertise, and unparalleled service via our hosted platforms and services. Join a rapidly growing company in an exciting and dynamic work environment. As one of the top 100 fastest growing companies in the Philadelphia region, Customized Energy Solutions offers an opportunity for significant professional growth.

Customized Energy Solutions Ltd. has been recognized regionally and nationally for its impressive and sustained growth, including INC. 500 | 5000 and The Philadelphia Business Journal as a Top 100 Companies in Philadelphia, Hall of Fame for five or more consecutive years. It was ranked as one of the “Best Places to Work” by the Philadelphia Business Journal.

Our team of associates at CES is highly motivated, innovative, and passionate about providing excellent Services to our clients. We look for individuals interested in growing with our company, and working in an exciting, open and collegial work environment. Our main office is in Philadelphia, with satellite offices in various U.S. states, Canada, Japan, India, and Vietnam.

We are seeking a detail-oriented and proactive QA Automation Engineer with 3+ years of experience in both manual and automation testing. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing test strategies, creating test cases, and building automation frameworks using Python and Selenium. This role requires strong analytical skills, hands-on experience with modern web tools.

Role & Responsibilities

Testing & Automation

• Design, develop, and execute manual and automated test cases
• Build and maintain automation frameworks and scripts using Python and Selenium
• Perform functional, regression, and cross-browser testing
• Work with APIs using Postman for testing, automation, and validation

Quality Assurance & Debugging

• Identify, document, and track bugs using tools like Jira
• Use browser DevTools to diagnose and debug issues efficiently
• Ensure comprehensive test coverage and high-quality deliverables

Monitoring & Performance

• Monitor application performance and logs using tools such as Datadog and Elastic (ELK Stack)
• Analyze system behavior and proactively identify potential issues

Release & Collaboration

• Participate in release management, including test planning, execution, and validation
• Collaborate with developers, product managers, and stakeholders
• Maintain test documentation, reports, and QA metrics
• Use Git for version control and team collaboration

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 3+ years of experience in manual and automation testing
• Strong proficiency in Python
• Hands-on experience with Selenium WebDriver
• Solid understanding of web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
• Experience with API testing using Postman
• Familiarity with cross-browser testing tools and practices
• Experience with logging and monitoring tools such as Datadog and Elastic
• Strong knowledge of browser DevTools for debugging
• Experience with Git and Jira
• Understanding of release management processes

Preferred Skillsets:

• Experience integrating Selenium-based automation suites with CI/CD pipelines and generating insightful test reports (e.g., Allure, pytest reports)
• Ability to design effective manual test scenarios based on business requirements and perform thorough exploratory testing to uncover edge cases and usability issues
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines
• Knowledge of performance and/or security testing
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Exposure to observability and monitoring tools (Datadog, Elastic etc. )

Additional Information

A QA engineer who is highly detail-oriented and committed to delivering high-quality software. You should be proactive in identifying issues, improving testing processes, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment and takes ownership of quality across the software development lifecycle.

Customized Energy Solutions offers competitive salary commensurate with experience. Customized Energy Solutions provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran

Customized Energy Solutions provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.