Director, Test Development Engineering

Amphenol Communications Solutions (ACS), a division of Amphenol Corporation, is a world leader in interconnect solutions for Communications, Mobile, RF, Optics, and Commercial electronics markets. Amphenol Corporation is one of the world’s largest designers and manufacturers of electrical, electronic and fiber optic connectors and interconnect systems, antennas, sensors and sensor-based products and coaxial and high-speed specialty cable. ACS has an expansive global presence in research and development, manufacturing, and sales.

We design and manufacture a wide range of innovative connectors as well as cable assemblies for diverse applications including server, storage, data center, mobile, RF, networking, industrial, business equipment, and automotive.

The Director of Test Development Engineering is the global functional leader for test development within Cable Backplane Systems (CBS), accountable for defining and executing the strategy, organization, technology roadmap, and operating system required to deliver scalable, production-ready test solutions across new product introduction (NPI) and manufacturing. The position partners closely with Product Development, Signal Integrity, Manufacturing Engineering, Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, site leadership, and strategic customers to ensure test capability enables product performance, accelerated launch, manufacturing readiness, and long-term business growth.

The successful candidate combines deep technical expertise in high-speed interconnect testing with enterprise leadership, organization development, investment prioritization, and executive communication. The role owns global governance for site-level NPI test teams and manufacturing test support, including architecture standards, readiness reviews, preventive maintenance, calibration, change and configuration control, and performance management.

• Define and execute the global Test Development Engineering strategy aligned with CBS product, customer, and technology roadmaps, including 448G and next-generation electrical and optical interconnects.
• Establish multi-year capability, organization, talent, and capital investment plans that support business growth and global manufacturing readiness.
• Translate business priorities into a governed global portfolio, resource allocation model, and measurable functional performance targets.
• Represent Test Development Engineering in executive reviews and with strategic customers, suppliers, and technology partners.

• Own end-to-end delivery of electrical, functional, and manufacturing test solutions from concept and architecture through qualification, production release, and sustaining support.
• Drive test readiness into NPI program gates with clear accountability for technical performance, schedule, risk retirement, and production launch.
• Establish standards for test coverage, correlation, repeatability, calibration, measurement-system capability, reliability, and data integrity.
• Ensure robust transfer to manufacturing through complete documentation, training, spare-parts strategy, maintenance plans, and escalation support.

• Own global architecture and platform standards for ATE, BERT, VNA, oscilloscopes, fixtures, interfaces, test software, automation, and test data systems.
• Lead the long-range roadmap for next-generation electrical and optical test methods, software modernization, automation, analytics, AI-enabled optimization, and digital manufacturing.
• Partner with Product Engineering and Signal Integrity Engineering to establish design-for-test, validation, and correlation methods for emerging products.
• Drive modularity, reuse, and common platforms to reduce development lead time, cost, complexity, and support burden across global sites.

• Establish and enforce global governance for site NPI and manufacturing test teams, including preventive maintenance, calibration, change logs, configuration control, asset lifecycle management, and readiness reviews.
• Define and review global KPIs for on-time test readiness, first-pass yield, test escapes, measurement-system capability, station uptime, capacity, utilization, and cost of test.
• Drive closed-loop continuous improvement using test data, failure analysis, lessons learned, and standardized corrective-action processes.
• Ensure consistent global standards while maintaining clear site ownership for daily execution and manufacturing support.

• Direct the global portfolio of NPI, sustaining, and strategic test capability programs.
• Own portfolio prioritization, resource and capacity planning, budget and capital proposals, and external supplier or partner strategy.
• Manage milestones, dependencies, risks, and executive…