Senior Automation Tester

About us

Siemens
We are a technology company focused on industry, infrastructure, transport, and healthcare. By combining the real and the digital worlds, we empower our customers to transform their industries and markets, helping them to transform the everyday for billions of people.

Job description, responsibilities and duties

Should you look forward to work together with a young and dynamic team, creating new and innovative product solutions, then we are interested in you!

Job Description:
• You will be responsible for keeping our software quality within a dedicated Scrum Team. Starting with reviewing the requirements within the Backlog Refinement, the creation of test concepts up to test specification and implementation of fully automated tests with our own script language Control.
• The main focus on NFR (Nonfunctional Requirements – mainly on performance, resource usage like Disk space, CPU, RAM). Creating test plans, design of NFR automatic testing, monitoring integration, performance, resiliency, security, scalability, and reliability will be your responsibility as well as building new NFR team.
• You will be responsible for building and maintaining a framework of test activities that can be scoped, prepared and executed.

Need to have:
• Structured and team-oriented way of working
• Excellent analytic skills, critical thinking
• Opened to experiment, following requirements, able to define values
• Basic operating system knowhow on Debian, RHEL and Windows
• Programming experience in an object-oriented language (the best would be C++)
• Good written and spoken English
• NFR testing experience
• Sense of how and when to test to achieve the best possible outcome

Nice to have:
• Experience with agile software development processes
• SCADA/HMI and/or SPS
• Understanding HW to be able to work with real scenarios the clients have
• Knowledge in Azure DevOps
• C++ or other programming skills

Required education, skills and personality requirements

Required education
University education (Bachelor's degree)

Language skills

We offer

• Home office, telework, flexible working hours (9:00 – 15:00), short Fridays
• Work-life balance thanks to stable quartal planning cycles
• Free pool parking
• Bridge days – 5 days/year, Sick days – 3 days/year, additional paid leave
• MultiSport
• Cafeteria system - BenefitPlus = 300 points / € per year
• Contribution to 3rd pillar pension up to 3% of gross salary (after the employment trial period)
• Sick leave compensation and Sick Leave to Care for a Family Member compensation (after the employment trial period, up to 100% of salary, 20 days/year)
• Childbirth bonus of 300€, Contribution for attending a preschool facility in the amount of 200€ (within Cafeteria system – BenefitPlus)
• Contribution for representative sports activities
• HEALTHY BACK PROGRAM = we offer ergonomic workplace (an electrically operated sit-stand desk, ergonomic chairs)
• Working with newest technologies + most projects run in agile methodology (we use SAFe)
• You can attend various international conferences
• 2 SIM cards with discounted employee flat rate also for family members
• Employee referral bonus up to 2 000€
• Opportunity to invest in the purchase of Siemens shares (after the employment trial period)
• Discounts for employees (electronics, language courses, vacation stays...)
• Discounted employee´s loans (for employees with an employment relationship of more than 3 years)
• Wellbeing program, Health Day, team-building program
• 8 hours of training per month within working hours
• Education in various fields of your choice within working hours
• Work anniversary present and life anniversary contribution