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Utilities & Energy

Building confidence in the technology that powers essential services.
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Utilities & Energy Industry

Confidence across critical utilities systems

Utilities and energy providers are modernising the systems that support customers, field teams and operations, while managing more connected infrastructure, growing data volumes and rising service expectations.

When systems, integrations or data fail, the impact can extend to customer trust, service reliability, safety, compliance and cost.

KJR helps organisations reduce delivery risk, validate system performance and adopt AI and automation with the right level of assurance.

KJR has worked with water providers across customer platforms, smart meter programs, asset systems, data transformation and AI-enabled services. Explore how we supported South East Water across several major enterprise-wide projects.
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Sector challenges

Legacy System Modernisation
Utilities are replacing ageing platforms that hold critical data, business rules and operational workflows. Migration and release require careful testing to avoid disruption.
Integration Complexity
Billing, field service, customer, meter, asset and reporting systems must work together. A failure in one integration can affect multiple downstream processes.
Customer-Facing Digital Pressure
Customers expect reliable access to billing, outage and account information across digital channels, chatbots, IVR and self-service platforms.
Smart Meter, IoT & Data Complexity Risk
Utilities rely on large volumes of data. Poor data quality can affect planning, compliance, customer service and AI outcomes.
Regulatory Compliance
Utilities and energy providers operate in highly regulated environments. Technology change must support compliance, auditability and reporting obligations, particularly when data and business rules are being migrated.
AI & Automation Governance
AI is increasingly used across customer service, forecasting, fault detection and operations. Organisations need confidence in how these systems perform and how risks are monitored.

How KJR supports the utilities and energy sector

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Legacy System & Platform Assurance

Utilities providers rely on ageing platforms that carry critical data and operational workflows. KJR specialises in assuring these complex legacy environments during modernisation, migration and release.

We help validate billing, customer, outage, field service, asset, data and smart meter systems so teams can identify risk early and release with clearer evidence.

How we help:
  • End-to-end workflow and integration testing
  • Functional testing of business rules and customer journeys
  • Regression testing and test automation
  • Performance testing under realistic load
  • Release readiness reporting and test governance
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Data Quality & Migration Assurance

Modern utilities depend on accurate data across multiple systems.

KJR tests data across source systems, integrations, transformations and reports so organisations can trust their data and make confident decisions.

Our expertise:
  • Data migration and business rule validation
  • Data quality checks across customer, asset and meter data
  • Reconciliation between source systems and reports
  • High-volume testing for smart meter and sensor data
  • Test data management for realistic utility scenarios
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AI, Customer Service & Digital Channel Assurance

AI and automation are being used across customer service, leak detection, fault detection, demand forecasting, call summaries and operational insights. These tools need to be tested against real-world conditions.

KJR supports trusted AI adoption by testing behaviour, data quality, reliability and ongoing risk.

Key areas of support:
  • AI governance and assurance
  • Chatbot and IVR testing across customer scenarios
  • Validation of AI-generated responses and transcripts
  • Testing for accuracy, consistency and drift
  • Assurance of AI data inputs and operational outputs
Smart Meters

Smart Meters, IoT & Operational Data

Smart meters, sensors and connected infrastructure give utilities better visibility, but they also create more data, more integrations and more points of failure.

KJR tests the systems and data flows behind smart meter and IoT programs so teams can rely on the information used for billing, asset monitoring, reporting and operational decisions.

Our capabilities:
  • Smart meter and IoT data validation
  • Integration testing across field systems and central platforms
  • Exception testing for missing, late or inconsistent data
  • Dashboard and reporting validation
  • Performance testing for high-volume data processing

Deep experience across water utilities

KJR has supported water providers across major technology programs involving customer platforms, operational systems, data and AI-enabled services. We provide the independent testing and assurance needed to reduce risk and improve confidence before systems go live.

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AI-enabled chatbot assurance

South East Water introduced an AI-enabled chatbot to improve customer access to information and reduce pressure on support channels.

KJR tested chatbot workflows, response quality, source data, customer verification and live agent handoff processes.

  • Results included:
  • Reducation of go-live risk
  • Clearer visibility of AI behaviours, risks and monitoring needs
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AI-enabled IVR assurance

South East Water upgraded its legacy IVR platform to improve contact centre responsiveness, customer routing and support during peak periods.

KJR provided testing and assurance across system integration, functional validation, UAT, speech input, IVR behaviour, conversational flows and AI-generated transcripts.

  • Results included:
  • No critical UAT defects
  • Confident deployment of the new IVR platform

Water meter platform performance assurance

A state government water meter platform needed assurance that it could support growing usage and maintain reliable performance.

KJR conducted realistic load testing across myID authentication, meter retrieval and reading submissions to identify performance constraints.

  • Results included:
  • Critical performance bottlenecks identified
  • Clear priorities for optimisation and scaling

Utilities & Energy Case Studies

National Energy Infrastructure Business

A leading energy infrastructure business engaged KJR to develop and execute a set of automated performance tests as part of their Geospatial Information System upgrade project. The customer gained several key benefits including mitigating upgrade risks, insightful analysis, and confident transition to the new platform.

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Retail Water Corporation

KJR was engaged to conduct Quality Assurance services and verified integration of PEGA tools within Hiaffinity, Boomi, Salesforce and IOT applications to ensure accurate and secure collection of data from water metres for one of Victorias largest Government owned retail water corporations.

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Practical assurance for complex utilities environments

KJR brings nearly 30 years’ experience in Software Quality Engineering and more than 15 years’ experience in AI and machine learning.

Our focus is simple: we help providers reduce delivery risk, improve release confidence and help utilities adopt technology with the right controls in place.

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Confidence in the systems that keep essential services running

Utilities and energy systems need to perform in real operating conditions, across customer demand, field activity, regulatory expectations and critical service moments. 

KJR provides the assurance needed to support reliable services, trusted data and safer technology adoption. 

Talk to KJR about Utilities & Energy Assurance using this form

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