Senior Test Engineer/ Senior Quality Assurance Engineer (m/f/d)

About Fluence: Fluence Energy, Inc. (Nasdaq: FLNC) is a global market leader in energy storage products and services, and optimization software for renewables and storage. With a presence in over 47 markets globally, Fluence provides an ecosystem of offerings to drive the clean energy transition, including modular, scalable energy storage products, comprehensive service offerings, and the Fluence IQ Platform, which delivers AI-enabled SaaS products for managing and optimizing renewables and storage from any provider. Fluence is transforming the way we power our world by helping customers create more resilient and sustainable electric grids.

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OUR CULTURE AND VALUES

We are guided by our passion to transform the way we power our world. Achieving our goals requires creativity, diversity of ideas and backgrounds, and building trust to effect change and move with speed.

We are Leading

Fluence currently has thousands of MW of energy storage projects operated or awarded worldwide in addition to the thousands of MW of projects managed by our trading platform—and we are growing every day.

We are Responsible

Fluence is defined by its unwavering commitment to safety, quality, and integrity.

We are Agile

We achieve our goals and meet our customer’s needs by cultivating curiosity, adaptability, and self-reflection in our teams.

We are Fun

We value the diversity in thought and experience of our coworkers and customers. Through honest, forthcoming, and respectful communications we work to ensure that Fluence is an inclusive and welcoming environment for all. 

We are looking for a Senior Test Engineer / Senior Quality Assurance Engineer (m/f/d), full time with an unlimited contract, within a hybrid working model in our offices in Erlangen or Berlin.

Do others come to you for your subject matter expertise? Are you excited by the challenge of working in a start-up atmosphere with a purpose? 

The Senior Test Engineer / Senior Quality Assurance Engineer (m/f/d) will perform as a member of a dynamic software engineering team developing the infrastructure necessary to support energy storage systems.

Your tasks:

· Ensuring the quality, reliability, and performance of our infrastructure components

· Experience with servers, networks, storage, and cloud services

· Testing remote access VPN, site-to-site VPN, Cisco Routers, Cisco Firewalls, Cisco Switches, SD-WAN, Meraki

· Experience in infrastructure-related testing methods such as vulnerability/reliability testing

· Working closely with other team members/stakeholders to understand system requirements and design effective test strategies

· Ability to perform structured analysis on system architecture and security documentation

· Clear understanding and ability to create/review network diagrams

· Capable of breaking down the infrastructure requirements into test cases and automate

· Perform validation testing and complete root cause analysis of possible failures in components, subsystems, and product-level systems

· Mentoring junior team members within their department

Your skills: 

· Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field

· 7+ years of experience in testing the configuration of the build infrastructure (primarily Linux)

· 7+ years of experience in programming languages such as Python and C/C++

· 7+ years of experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) concepts and tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible)

· Desire to participate, define, and adhere to best practices for testing and validation

· Experience in developing test plans and procedures to assess adherence to requirements

· Have strong oral and written communication skills for communicating ideas to both managers and other technical leads

· Experience with continuous integration, build management, automated test frameworks and assessing existing products

· Work with external suppliers certifications, test documents, and requirements are all up to date

· Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, draw valid conclusions, and provide solutions

· Fluent English language skills, German is a nice to have

· Experience in supporting Linux, Mac and Windows operating systems

· Knowledge in AWS, Openstack, Docker, and/or Github

Our benefits:

· Attractive pay in line with the metal collective agreement

· 30 days annual vacation

· Hybrid working in Erlangen

· Flexible working time

· Company pension plan

· Capital forming payments for Tarif-Employees

· Kindergarten allowance tax free (100€/kid/month)

· Culture based on values within diverse teams, open and transparent communication with a focus on DE&I

· Personal development (LinkedIn Training, inhouse training, workshops)

· Sabbatical Option

· Home office allowance

· Corporate Benefits

Fluence is defined by its unwavering commitment to safety, quality, and integrity. We take personal ownership of what we do, developing trust in our relationships with internal and external stakeholders. We firmly believe in having honest, forthcoming, and fair communications.

Fluence IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER and fully subscribes to the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity to ensure that all applicants and employees are considered for hire, promotion, and job status without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital or familial status.