Quality Assurance Engineering Manager

Fluence is the leading global energy storage technology and services company, created and backed by Siemens and AES, two industry powerhouses and pioneers in energy storage. Fluence unites the scale, experience, breadth, and financial backing of the two most experienced icons in energy storage.

Our mission is to create a more sustainable future by transforming the way we power our world. Energy storage is critical to this transformation, yet today the market is fragmented and customers face the challenge of finding a trusted technology partner amidst conflicting technical claims, inexperienced vendors and installers, and new market entrants with limited power sector knowledge.

Fluence brings the proven technology solutions and services that overcome the commercial and regulatory barriers that stand in the way of modernizing our energy networks. We are the partner that can deliver at a global scale with the most experienced and knowledgeable team in the world.

Fluence (Nasdaq: FLNC) is a global market leader in energy storage products and services and digital applications for renewables and storage. With a presence in 30 global markets, Fluence provides an ecosystem of offerings to drive the clean energy transition, including modular, scalable storage products, comprehensive service offerings, and the Fluence IQ platform, which delivers AI-enabled digital applications for managing and optimizing storage and renewables. The company is transforming the way we power our world by helping customers create more resilient and sustainable electric grids. For more information, please visit fluenceenergy.com.

 

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.

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.

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

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

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. 

The QA Engineering Manager will perform as a member of a dynamic software engineering team developing cutting edge energy storage tools. The QA Engineering Manager will test software/hardware for ongoing development projects and be responsible for developing and maintaining test cases using Agile/Scrum software development methodologies. The QA Engineering Manager will also be responsible for evaluating algorithms and automation techniques to determine processes from a business and technical perspective. The QA Engineering Manager will be a peoples manager, as well as, help to guide and develop other team members. Responsible Fluence is defined by its unwavering commitment to safety, quality, and integrity. We take personal ownership in what we do, developing trust in our relationships with internal and external stakeholders. We firmly believe in having honest, forthcoming, and fair communications.

The Incumbent will have:

•5-8 years of experience testing applications developed in Ruby, Javascript, Matlab, Python orsome equivalent.

•Experience testing software using the Agile/Scrum methodology.

• Knowledge of QA methodology and industry-standard testing and bug tracking tools.

• Experience capturing day to day activities in JIRA.

• Experience evaluating and implementing new and state-of-the-art technology to address challenging customer problems.

• Experience in forming design/analysis of a system or new requirements.

• Experience in developing test plans/procedures to assess adherence to requirements.

• Experience in automated testing frameworks, load testing, api testing, smoke testing, regression testing, and other common testing practices.

• Experience with continuous integration and build management processes and tools.

• Experience in development of QA Reports and statistics.

Agile

Here at Fluence, we strive to continuously improve, be intellectually curious and be adaptive to our customers and employee’s needs. Collaboration is key, both in our partnerships with our customers, and with each other. Fluence prioritizes the most critical efforts that allow for the greatest impact.

• The preferred candidate will have a background B.S. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field.

• Provide team leadership and influence application vision.

• 3-5 years minimum managing diversely located teams.

• Strong oral and written communication skills.

• Able to work independently with little day to day guidance and achieve targets and goals.

• Able to quickly gain understanding of the underlying controls system to help mentor other team members questions.

• Able to provide innovative solution to common testing dilemmas.

DESIRED SKILLS:

• Experience in high-performance programming such as Matlab.

• Experience programming using HTML, C++, Ruby, or similar.

• Experience in modern web client technologies such as SPA (single page applications).

• Experience with AWS, Openstack, Docker, and Github.

• Experience testing diverse COTS or Open Source Software.

Fun

Working on transforming a fundamental part of our society is exciting and fulfilling. It requires creativity, diversity of ideas and backgrounds, and building trust to effect change and move with speed. We respect our coworkers and customers. We listen to what others have to say, and we are inclusive.