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A career at Alfen Senior Test Engineer Almere Staff WO HBO 5-10 years of experience Senior Test Engineer Almere Staff As a Senior Hardware Test Engineer (ESS) within R&D, you are responsible for validating and verifying new hardware developments for our Energy Storage Systems (ESS) portfolio. You focus on testing power electronic systems, battery systems and related hardware components. What will you do? A key part of your role is the development, expansion and maintenance of our R&D test facilities, including inverter setups, battery racks, power distribution systems and measurement infrastructure. You work in a multidisciplinary product development team to ensure new technologies meet performance, safety, reliability and compliance requirements before introduction into the market. As a senior engineer, you act as a technical expert, support less experienced colleagues and contribute to the continuous improvement of our testing capabilities, methodologies and test infrastructure. Your responsibilities include: Engineering & Test Environment Development - Developing, expanding, commissioning and maintaining R&D test facilities for Energy Storage Systems, including battery systems, battery racks, PCS and inverter test setups. - Ensuring safe operation of high-power test environments. - Contributing to the long-term roadmap for ESS test infrastructure. - Defining and executing validation and qualification test plans for ESS hardware components and subsystems, including performance, safety, EMC, interoperability and compliance testing. - Developing comprehensive test protocols based on IEC standards (including IEC 62933 series), product specifications and functional requirements. - Selecting and applying advanced measurement equipment and test tools. Hardware Testing & Validation Analysis & Reporting - Analysing and interpreting test data and identifying root causes of deviations. - Translating test results into practical...



