# Hardware Quality & Test Engineering Manager (f/m/d) at Holoplot

> Germany · Manager · QA / Test · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/personio%3Aholoplot%3A2655995 (read 2026-11-13).

## Facts (observed)

- Company: [Holoplot](https://alderhq.app/companies/holoplot)
- Location text: Berlin
- Where it can be done from (inferred): Germany (evidence: "Location: Berlin")
- Posted: 2026-06-03 (163 days ago)
- First seen by alder: 2026-11-04 · last verified: 2026-11-08
- Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times
- Apply on the employer's site: https://holoplot.jobs.personio.de/job/2655995

## Pay and sponsorship

- Posted pay: not posted
- Market band for similar posted roles (Berlin, n 4): p25 €43k, median €52k, p75 €67k

## Description (the employer's text)

### The ideal candidate is

A highly technical, practical leader who thrives at the intersection of hands-on engineering and people management. If you are a Quality Manager who prefers filling out spreadsheets and managing a purely administrative role, this is not the position for you. You are someone who rolls up their sleeves, dives into the engineering details, and leads by example to help a multidisciplinary team build robust, high-quality hardware products.

### Main objectives of the role

Technical Authority: Serve as the ultimate technical authority and "go-to" person for establishing confidence ratings on product development risks and defining engineering mitigation actions.

Reliability Champion: Bring a deep, specialized focus to hardware reliability across the product lifecycle, shifting the team toward proactive physics-of-failure engineering.

Team Leadership: Successfully manage, mentor, and coordinate a highly technical, cross-functional team of 4 engineers spanning validation testing, reliability engineering, and development of production test equipment

### Your role and responsibilities

People Management: Lead a team of 4 people: 2 Development-focused Quality Engineers (1 Electrical and 1 Mechanical Engineer), and 1 Test Development Tech Lead and 1 Test Development Engineer developing custom test equipment primarily for QC in production.

Certification: Own our certification strategy and execution end-to-end, ensuring a predictable, successful, and fast certification process to meet ambitious timelines. This includes strong coordination with external certification laboratories and involvement of the right stakeholders (compliance bodies) at the right time of a project.

Hardware Reliability: Bring a strong focus to hardware reliability, taking ownership of methodologies such as HALT (Highly Accelerated Life Testing) and HASS (Highly Accelerated Stress Screening).

Engineering Investigations: Take the lead on deep-dive engineering investigations of technical issues arising from both early product development and the field.

Validation Strategy: Help bring best practices to the definition and documentation of the product validation plan, test strategy, and test coverage.

Execution & Coordination: Plan, estimate costs, and coordinate all product validation and test development activities.

### What you need to succeed in this role

Practical Engineering Experience: A strong, hands-on engineering background (Mechanical, Electrical, Systems, or related discipline) with extensive "on-the-bench" experience.

Reliability Expertise: Proven experience implementing HALT/HASS testing and translating stress-testing data into actual product design improvements.

Root-Cause Mastery: Exceptional skills in engineering investigation and root-cause analysis, with the ability to guide a team through complex technical troubleshooting.

Cross-Functional Literacy: The ability to understand and speak the language of mechanical, electrical, and software test engineers seamlessly.

Pragmatic Leadership: Experience leading small teams of engineers with a collaborative, supportive style that balances strict quality standards with product delivery timelines.

### We offer you

At HOLOPLOT we work in a flexible hybrid setup with trust-based working hours, giving you the freedom to organise your day in a way that supports focus, deep work and balance. Pay is competitive and fair, and we offer perks and benefits such as subsidised public transport, lunch allowances, Urban Sports and a company pension scheme.

You’ll join an international, open-minded team across software, hardware, product and research, in an environment with plenty of autonomy and ownership. You’ll work on cutting-edge audio technology, turn complex requirements into working solutions and contribute to global projects, with support for your growth through individual development plans, mentoring and coaching.

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