Engineer, Test Development

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Location: Newmarket, ON, CA

The 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.
The Engineer, Test Development may specialize in many areas but are generally categorized into Structural (verification of an assembly process by testing each of its smaller elements and their interconnects) and Functional (verification that a design will perform its main purpose).

Performs tasks such as, but not limited to, the following:

• Work independently to develop technical solutions without assistance in a limited number of technical fields supporting common segments/technologies. May also solve complex problems in cooperation with a team of other engineers.
• Attend and interact in technical customer meetings.
• Provide high level test hardware and software solution architecture
• Review equipment data sheets and select appropriate equipment based on requirements
• Support creation of structural or functional test strategy and test plan to meet project goals and requirements
• Support creation of technical proposals with costed BOM and hours estimates
• Ability to research and comprehend relevant product technologies and skills associated with product technologies
• 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 focussing on cycle time and yield.
• Test developers may also work with product design teams with feedback from product testability, test coverage, diagnosability, reparability, firmware/diagnostics and user experience.
• Keep up to date with relevant industry knowledge and regulations

Activities include:

• Develop and execute manufacturing test strategy for new products
• Development of test processes, test fixtures, and specialized tools for manufacturing test
• Involvement in all areas of test solutions including both software and hardware elements.
• Bachelor of Applied Science or Engineering in Computer, Electrical, Software, or Computer Science
  • Engineering Foundation Competencies
  • Knowledge and understanding of the design process for systems and printed circuit boards
  • Knowledge and understanding of systems and printed circuit board manufacturing processes and equipment
  • Knowledge of industry and quality standards
  • Ability to evaluate, diagnose and troubleshoot problems
  • Knowledge of materials and components used in the construction of systems and printed circuit boards and subassemblies
  • Knowledge of industry and quality standards for incoming materials
  • Ability to evaluate materials, gather and analyze data and determine root cause of problems
  • Knowledge of software and scripting development, processes and debug methodologies and failure analysis
  • Knowledge of IT platforms, database design and programming languages appropriate to area
  • Minimum 1-2 years of software development experience on Linux platforms with minimum one language (Python preferred)
• Minimum 1-2 years of practical experience using GIT in Linux environment preferred
• Software design, development, debug and release
• Minimum 1-2 years of engineering development and manufacturing operations support (preferred, not mandatory)
  • Strong operations background (electronics manufacturing experience preferred, not mandatory)
  • Some Hardware development, integration and qualification (preferred, not mandatory)
  • Instrumentation automation, driver development (preferred, not mandatory)
• Some board design and layout experience would be an asset (not mandatory)
• Project leadership and managing multiple projects
  • Good organization skills
  • Ability to effectively communicate…