We are looking for someone who knows farming and is good with software. You will be the person who catches it when the product gets the agronomy wrong — before a farmer does.
The core of the job is quality assurance: testing what we build, against reality and against regulation. As you grow into the product, you take over feature ownership: shaping vague customer needs into clear, buildable specifications and deciding what “agronomically correct” means for the team.
You do not need to write code. You do need to be curious about software, and you should already be using AI tools in your daily work — we do too, throughout the whole team.
Quality assurance
- Write and maintain test cases; run regression tests on staging before every release
- Do exploratory testing on new features — desktop and mobile app
- Verify agronomic calculations against reference data, lab reports and German legal requirements (Düngeverordnung, nutrient planning, VDLUFA soil interpretation)
- Validate data imports and exports: Excel, CSV, Shapefile/GeoJSON, machine data (e.g. John Deere), soil lab results
- Sanity-check sensor, weather and satellite-derived data for plausibility
- Write reproducible tickets for the bugs you find, verify fixes, and keep the test suite in sync with the product
Feature ownership
- Turn customer and sales feedback into concrete tickets with clear acceptance criteria
- Refine the backlog together with product and the developers; answer the domain questions that come up mid-sprint
- Define what a feature must calculate and display: nutrient balances, crop rotations, growth stages, application windows, yield records
- Keep sales, support and management informed about what is coming and what shipped
What you bring — must have
- Agronomic knowledge — a degree in agronomy, agricultural sciences or plant sciences, or equivalent hands‑on experience on a farm or in advisory work
- Good computer skills — you find your way around web and mobile applications quickly, work comfortably with digital tools, and pick up new software without needing much hand‑holding
- You know how to work with AI — you use tools like Claude or ChatGPT as part of your normal working routine, know how to prompt them well for research, writing and analysis, and have a sense of when to trust the output and when to check it
- Structured, detail-driven working style — you can describe a problem precisely enough that someone else can reproduce it
- Good English, written and spoken (the team’s working language)
- Able to work independently in a remote, distributed team
Good to have
- Previous software testing experience — test cases, tickets, working in a sprint-based team
- GIS basics: QGIS, Shapefiles, GeoJSON, coordinate systems and reprojection
- Plant protection regulations and record‑keeping obligations
- German (B2 or better) — many of our customers, documents and regulations are German
- Knowledge of the German farming system — Düngeverordnung and nutrient planning, ENNI/ENDO documentation, GAP/Antragstellung, typical crop rotations, machinery and farm structures
What we offer
- A product with real users and short feedback loops — what you test and specify this month is in the field next month
- A path from QA into real product ownership; this is not a ticket-processing role
- A small team without unnecessary hierarchy, working across agronomy, software and hardware
- Fully remote work with flexible hours, part-time or full-time
- Compensation based on your experience and your performance
About us
Agvolution develops technology for the agriculture of tomorrow. With agmeo, our farm-management and geo‑AI platform, we make soil and climate data usable for commercial and institutional customers – from seed and fertiliser manufacturers through farms and agricultural insurers to food producers. With climavi we supply the matching sensor technology that gathers data directly from the field. This is how we combine hardware and software into a basis for decisions that did not exist in this form before.
We are a team that connects deep tech with real-world application: engineers, developers and agricultural experts working together towards data-driven and more sustainable agriculture. From Hamburg.
For better readability we use the masculine form in this job description – it goes without saying that we mean all people, regardless of gender or gender identity.
Agvolution is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications regardless of origin, gender, age, religion, disability or sexual identity.
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