Engineer, Test Development

General Overview

Req : 135858

Region: Americas

Country: USA

State/Province: Texas

City: Richardson

Functional Area: Engineering (ENG)

Career Stream: Test Engineering Development (TED)

Role: Engineer (ENG)

Job Title: Engineer, Test Development

Job Code: ENG-ENG-TED

Job Level: Level 07

Direct/Indirect Indicator: Indirect

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 and Functional verification.

Incumbents fully qualified to execute job/accountabilities working independently on most aspects of the job. Work within professional standards and practices. Tasks moderately complex requiring judgment. Works under general supervision.

• 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
• Project leadership, including management of and communication with team members, suppliers and customers internal & external
• Attend and interact in technical discussions with customers
• 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
• Involvement in all areas of the manufacturing test development process, including hardware/equipment selection, procurement, test code development, hardware integration, system integration, validation, qualification and installation support for manufacturing onsite
• Collaborate with customer product design teams, providing feedback from product testability, test coverage, diagnosability, reparability, firmware/diagnostics and user experience standpoint
• Develop production level (low to high volume) manufacturing test strategies and test requirements based on product design hardware and software specifications for new products
• Develop manufacturing test “Testplan” documentation
• Design and develop test solutions including hardware & software elements
• Develop new test code and tools for manufacturing test automation from scratch
• Integrate new tools and other custom code developed by other internal groups or external customer teams
• System integration, qualification, and installation to meet product, quality and test requirements outlined in the “Testplan” document
• Debug 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 to optimize with process teams focusing on failure analysis, cycle time & test yield optimizations, as well as false failure reductions
• Maintain test equipment, test fixtures and specialized tools for manufacturing test automation
• Keep up to date with relevant industry knowledge and regulations
• Apply a continuous improvement mindset to all aspects of the development process
• Traveling requirements to overseas (Mexico, Asia, EU)

• 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, 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 testing…