Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. E Source is a research, data analytics, and technology-focused professional services firm serving the utility industry in the United States and Canada. The Technical Consultant will support AMI and utility technology implementations by developing and executing testing, validating data and system integrations, tracking defects, and helping clients establish sustainable data-management and quality-assurance processes.
Responsibilities
- Support development and execution of AMI test strategies, plans, procedures, test cases, acceptance criteria, and test reports
- Coordinate and support testing across bench, system integration, user acceptance/business process, field acceptance, performance, regression, and related implementation phases
- Maintain requirements traceability and help ensure business, functional, technical, integration, and performance requirements are validated through appropriate test cases
- Document, analyze, track, and help resolve defects and test issues, including root-cause analysis, corrective actions, retesting, and closure
- Validate data flows and system integrations to confirm that data is received, transformed, routed, and processed correctly across interconnected utility systems
- Perform AMI data-quality and installation-data reviews, including meter and endpoint information, reads, work-order data, photos, and related field records
- Analyze operational reports, exceptions, alerts, and data-quality issues, and help utility teams establish ownership, severity levels, escalation processes, and remediation procedures
- Support development and refinement of data management plans, operational procedures, reports, training materials, and quality-assurance processes
- Provide hands-on coaching and implementation support to client teams responsible for ongoing AMI data management, exception handling, and data-quality activities
Skills
- • Bring strong analytical skills and enjoy troubleshooting system, interface, data, or business-process issues
- • Can validate data quality, reconcile information across systems, analyze exceptions, and identify data discrepancies
- • Work effectively with utility business users, IT/OT teams, software vendors, system integrators, and field contractors
- • Have strong attention to detail, with the ability to recognize patterns, inconsistencies, and emerging implementation issues
- • Bring strong documentation, communication, and problem-solving skills, and can manage multiple priorities across concurrent client engagements
- • Five or more years of experience supporting utility technology implementations, system testing, data management, quality assurance, or a closely related technical function
- • Experience with AMI, MDMS, CIS, GIS, work management, customer platforms, or other utility systems
- • Demonstrated experience developing or executing system, integration, user acceptance, business process, field acceptance, regression, or performance testing
- • Experience working with requirements, test cases, acceptance criteria, requirements traceability matrices, defect logs, and test results
- • Proficiency with Excel and other tools used for data analysis, issue tracking, and test management
- • Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience
- Travel is dependent on project and client needs (up to 50%)
- Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the US or Canada
- • Have experience with SQL or similar data-query tools
- • Have direct AMI implementation experience
- • Have working knowledge of utility meter, endpoint, installation, billing, or operational data
Benefits
- Excellent insurance options, including medical, dental, and vision plans
- Company-paid life insurance
- Company-paid long- and short-term disability insurance
- Medical and dependent-care flexible spending plans
- Paid parental leave
- A flexible time off (FTO) policy that provides paid time away from work, approved by your manager, while ensuring business needs, workload commitments, and appropriate coverage are maintained
- A 401(k) plan with a 3% employer match
- This role is remote when not traveling to client sites
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