Senior Lead Engineer, Test Development

About the role

The Senior Lead Engineer, Test Development designs, develops and implements automatic test equipment and test programs for product testing and design verification which ensure robust and high quality assembled products in manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and implementation of technical solutions in multiple domains.
• Participate in project planning and scheduling.
• Provide technical leadership and direction to a team of engineers.
• Review, interpret and may negotiate customer requirements/specifications and provides customer feedback.
• Lead the deployment of strategic programs and coordinate site-wide deployment efforts.
• Proactively promote industry best practices.
• May manage relationships with key vendors/partners.
• Create structural or functional test strategy and test plan to meet project goals and requirements.
• Create technical proposals with costed BOM, hours, and schedule estimates.
• Lead requirements generation with minimal to no guidance, leveraging design specifications and technical product design data.
• Provide technical program management for mid to large projects.
• Establish best known methods and processes for test development execution (Structural or Functional) for local and regional teams.
• Analyze industry trends and setting short term investment and skill development strategies and business cases with local or regional impact.
• Develop production test strategies based on product design specification.
• Design and develop test solutions including hardware & software elements and then system integration, qualification, and installation to meet product, quality and test requirements outlined in the test plan.
• Debug of tester issues using design of experiments, tools, and failure analysis methodologies.
• Execute all validation/qualification requirements by applying statistical and common industry methods.
• Stabilization of Test Solutions for manufacturing working to optimize with process teams focusing on cycle time and yield.

Requirements

• Typical Experience: 4 to 6 years in a similar role or industry.
• Typical Education: Bachelor degree or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Work Environment

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