Senior Application Engineer - QA & Test Automation

From autonomous industrial robots to self-charging drones and chatbot platforms, we're building it and you can be part of it. Motius is a research and development company specializing in the development of products and prototypes in the latest tech fields (AI, IoT, AR/VR and many more). With the unique combination of a permanent core team and an interdisciplinary tech community, we reinvent R&D and develop the tech products of the future together with our customers. Motius is based in Munich & Stuttgart, Germany and in Dubai. In 2022, we're opening up a new office & location in Serbia.

As Application Engineer (m/f/d) with focus on Quality Assurance and Test Automation, you're a permanent part of our Software Engineering team at Motius. You'll join our diverse R&D projects in small and agile teams and you'll support the journey to build highly scalable applications and digital products for our clients with excellent QA approaches. You can find sample projects on our homepage.

In this role, you're not only responsible for manual testing in our projects, but also for establishing a generally high quality mindset, QA processes across the company, and a strong test automation infrastructure and pipeline.

Your role

• You test our digital products and protoypes (manually + writing test cases)
• You establish processes for Quality Assurance across the company and setup structured test plans and specifications
• By this, you establish a mindset and culture for high quality product development and processes within the company
• You join various projects and support the engineers & project owners with professional QA services
• You're one of the first team members of our Motius Office in Serbia

Your profile

• University degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or in similar disciplines, or professional education in the IT sector
• Relevant previous experience in testing software (manually + automated) and improving the corresponding processes
• Experience and/or curiousity for scripting, Linux, and the role of DevOps in the software development lifecycle
• Ability to work detailed, structured, and solution-orientied
• Affinity for a great design of modern App/Web products
• Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid changes common in early-stage product development and strong command of English language (both verbal and written)
• Communication skills to interact with several teams and stakeholders during a week

Our offer

• Fulltime & permanent position in Motius in Serbia- first as a Freelancer or employed via Partner Company and then later employed in our Serbian legal entity (currently in the legal process for that)
• Flexible working hours and remote work / homeoffice
• Unique and inspiring working culture with many smart engineers from diverse backgrounds (e.g. software developers, Embedded system engineers, Mechanical engineers, Computer Vision researchers etc.) coming from over 15 different countries
• Work with the latest tech stack: React, React Native, Django, Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher, GitLab, GitLab CI, Elastic Stack, ... - and any other useful tech that helps us building new products
• Exciting insights into the markets, technologies and products of the future through collaboration with clients from a wide range of industries plus the opportunity to accelerate our clients' innovation cycles
• A defined Talent Journey for your further development, as well as regular peer reviews
• Learning & development budget and our regular Tech Discovery for learning and discovering new technologies
• Other perks & benefits of a startup: Lots of flexibility and responsibility, flat hierarchies, regular teambuilding and company events, you can find more details and reasons why you should join Motius in our latest blog post and on Instagram @team_motius.

We are looking forward to receiving your application with CV, motivation letter, possible start date and salary expectation.