Lead Engineer, Test Development 1

About the role

The Lead Engineer, Test Development designs, develops, and implements automatic test equipment and test programs for product testing and design verification to ensure robust and high-quality assembled products in manufacturing. This role may specialize in Structural (verification of an assembly process by testing each of its smaller elements and their interconnects) or Functional (verification that a design will perform its main purpose) test development.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement technical solutions in two or more technical areas.
• Lead smaller projects and coordinate other engineers, including reviews of their work.
• Review and interpret customer documentation, conduct research, analysis, and experiments with minimal direction from senior staff.
• Create technical proposals (solution and timelines) based on requirements.
• Provide high-level test hardware and software solution architecture.
• Create structural or functional test strategy and test plan to meet project goals and requirements.
• Develop technical proposals with costed BOM and hours estimates.
• Create product test requirements with guidance from senior staff and collaboration with customer designers.
• Provide technical program management for small projects.
• Develop production test strategies based on product design specification.
• Design and develop test solutions including hardware and software elements, then system integration, qualification, and installation to meet product, quality, and test requirements outlined in the test plan.
• Debug tester issues using design of experiments, tools, and failure analysis methodologies.
• Execute all validation/qualification requirements by applying statistical and common industry methods.
• Stabilize test solutions for manufacturing, optimizing with process teams focusing on cycle time and yield.
• Work with product design teams to provide feedback on product testability, test coverage, diagnosability, reparability, firmware/diagnostics, and user experience.
• Keep up to date with relevant industry knowledge and regulations.

Requirements

• 1 to 3 years of related experience in similar job roles.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience. Educational requirements may vary by geography.

Skills

Refer to technical skills relevant to test development and engineering.

Physical Demands

• Duties are performed in a normal office environment.
• May require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or detailed data.
• Repetitive manual movements (e.g., data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator) are frequently required.
• Occasional travel may be required.