Test Engineer

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Driving and supporting bring-up activities of new systems, including hardware assembly, visual inspection, power-up, and system validation
• Collaborating to continually evolve and improve the qualification processes to yield more efficient failure detection, prevention, and resolution
• Supporting engineering, manufacturing, and field service teams through root cause issue analysis, evaluating proposed fixes and enhancements, conducting experiments, and communicating recommended changes
• Maintaining lab equipment and test resources to the highest standards, and improving lab organization and the efficiency of the lab environment
• Effectively coordinate requirements from multiple engineers while keeping multiple projects moving simultaneously
• Developing and documenting test plans, test results, test/lab processes/procedures, tracking of proto-hardware and ECO level, rework history, and current owner/users.
• Posting test plans, results, proto-hardware status in an efficient, organized, and organizationally accessible archive and/or database
• Timely and diligent bug/issue tracking and updates
  

Background And Experience

This Test Engineer will require a Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering (or an equivalent combination of experience), plus five years' experience in Test Engineering including bring-up, debug, and validation of components, complex circuit boards, networks, servers and systems.

In Addition, The Successful Candidate Will Have

• An understanding of functional, integration system level regression testing
• Ability to read and understand complex schematics, and trace signals in PCBs using PCB design file/gerber file viewers
• Ability to drive/execute systematic, methodical board and system level debug, design of experiments, and root cause analysis
• Familiarity with scripting languages and low level programming
• Experience with debugging and testing voltage regulator modules and associated hardware
• Proficiency with lab equipment including oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers, and power load tools
• The ability to understand the high level architecture of the system, as well as, a more detailed understanding of subsystem building blocks
• Proficiency with Google Workspace and/or Microsoft Office productivity suite
• Knowledge of board hardware and software, design and test methodologies
• Familiarity with defect tracking tools, product lifecycle management tools, and board design tools
• Experience creating test project status reports and metrics, including a Test Dashboard
• Experience researching and documenting bug reports upon discovery of a quality problem
• A successful track record of working with geographically distributed cross-functional groups
• Strong organizational, verbal and written skills