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Quality Assurance Manager
EnergyHub is Bringing Home the Smart Grid. We are a venture-backed startup developing consumer electronics and software tools that reduce home energy consumption and save consumers money. We are also a growing team of engineers and designers who share a passion for elegant user-centered design and are dedicated to finding innovative solutions to today’s energy and environmental problems.
Our system includes consumer-facing hardware devices, electric fixtures, embedded software, web software, and web services – and it all has to work together seamlessly. This is where you come in. We’re looking for a talented quality assurance specialist to ensure that projects maintain interoperability and are delivered with the highest possible level of quality. You’ll also provide valuable end-user feedback to improve the customer experience.
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain a suite of testing procedures to exercise and verify functionality of integrated hardware and software system
- Assist with the planning of QA and product release cycles
- Identify testing requirements such as relevant platforms, databases, and versions thereof
- Execute test procedures to verify functionality against specs and product requirements to meet QA cycle goals
- Integrate automated software testing, manufacturing line hardware testing, and black box system-level testing outputs to arrive at QA satisfaction
- Represent QA concerns in meetings with cross-functional, release, and business team members
- Select and manage external QA resources
- Continually enhance the QA process to ensure superior product quality
Qualifications
- 4+ years of experience writing and executing QA test plans in the software or consumer electronics industry
- Experience black box testing embedded and web-based applications
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Knowledge of consumer product and web user interfaces and functionality
- Bachelor’s degree or higher (or extensive relevant experience)
Other skills that would be highly valued
- Experience working in a Linux environment
- Familiarity and experience with ISO quality standards
- White or gray box testing experience
- Experience with software testing automation tools
- TestPlant
- Java
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Senior Web Developer
EnergyHub is a venture-backed startup developing consumer electronics and software tools that reduce home energy consumption and save consumers money. We share a passion for elegant user-centered design and are dedicated to finding innovative solutions to today’s energy and environmental problems.
Since our software runs on a consumer product, you will have the satisfaction of seeing your work touch the lives of real people. Our computing needs span the range from ultra-efficient small computers running on specialized processors to large rack-mount number-crunching servers running high volume websites.
We’re looking for a brilliant and experienced web software engineer to play a pivotal role in designing and maintaining our web system architecture and in building our web applications, whose functions are to sum up and present large datasets with compelling and informative graphical data visualizations and to manage a large network of devices spread out across the Internet. He/she will lead a team of web software engineers and also coordinate with embedded system developers, and may cross over into embedded system development. This role will involve also coordinating feature development and release schedules with EnergyHub’s product management team.
The core technologies we use are Linux, Java, JavaScript, and MYSQL. The right candidate will have a flair for elegant code, a broad perspective on tools available in the software universe, and strong leadership and mentoring skills.
Responsibilities
- Write code to render contents of large datasets in graphical and tabular representations and to control home energy management systems remotely
- Use state-of-the-art dynamic web technology to implement responsive web applications
- Create APIs and services to communicate data to and from third parties
- Manage and mentor a team of web developers and allocate development resources across projects
- Select and maintain scalable system architecture to support deployed hardware
- Work closely with web designers to translate wireframes and visual designs into live web pages
- Coordinate with product managers to set product priorities and develop release schedules
- Produce clean, scalable, well-documented code
- Develop tests to verify the stability and reliability of your code
Qualifications
- 7+ years of Java programming experience
- Software team lead experience
- SQL and Enterprise RDBMS Programming
- BS or higher in CS, Engineering, Physics, Chemistry or other hard science
- Can navigate Linux with ease
- Ability to think and work independently
- Strong communication skills
Other skills that would be highly valued
- Amazon EC2 and S3 experience
- Struts or Spring MVC
- Flex
- Javascript/JSON
- Android
- AJAX/AJAJ
- SSL
- MySQL
- JUnit
- SVN
- XMPP / Jabber
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Proposal Manager
EnergyHub is Bringing Home the Smart Grid. We are a venture-backed startup developing consumer electronics and software tools that reduce home energy consumption and save consumers money. We are also a growing team dedicated to finding innovative solutions to today’s energy and environmental problems.
The Proposal Manager is responsible for supporting all phases of the proposal process in response to electric, gas and water utility client requests for proposals (RFPs) and requests for information (RFIs). In addition to partnering with sales and sales leadership to write/respond to proposal responses, this role also helps to edit/coordinate work of proposal team members.
Responsibilities
- Supports all phases of the proposal process including content management (content review, new content creation, system updates), opportunity assessment, bid/no bid decision, response design/development, response quality assurance, proposal delivery, win/loss analysis and proposal reporting
- Conducts RFP analysis and dissection. Fully qualifies client requests
- Works with sales and sales leadership to respond to utility RFPs/RFIs. Helps to develop win themes and aligns proposal responses accordingly
- Supports proposal operations by conducting proposal reviews, story boarding sessions, and copy editing to ensure the development of high-quality responses in a timely manner
- Helps to capture and develop new proposal response content and graphics
- Supports marketing communications team to develop relevant marketing collateral
- Supports sales/business development team on other sales-related needs, including tracking of industry developments and assistance with prospecting new clients, on an as-needed basis
Qualifications
- 3-5 years of professional proposal writing experience required
- Excellent writing skills required
- Industry knowledge of utility industry preferred
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Clear communicator/writer
- Ability to manage a project from start to end
- Capable of taking direction and change direction fluidly
- Comfortable understanding and writing about energy technology and for a utility audience
- Ability to conduct research and translate that into proposal content
- Capacity to work on multiple deadline driven projects simultaneously
- Works well under pressure
- Utility proposal response experience preferred
- Comfortable working in a startup environment and capable of working both independently and as part of a team