Test Engineer

Location

Shakopee, Minnesota, United States

At the furthest frontiers of innovation, Comm Scope Data Center Solutions is committed to helping our partners and customers think bigger, build better and evolve smarter in their data center and central office connectivity strategies. As the collaborative, go‑to authority for high‑density, low‑latency fiber‑optic infrastructure, Comm Scope Data Center Solutions helps the world’s networks scale up, scale out and scale across.

With the global manufacturing capacity to meet customers’ ambitious growth, our solutions help conquer network complexity, accelerate deployments and deliver long‑term evolutionary performance. Together, we help operators stay ahead of evolving AI applications and increasing demands.

This position is responsible for working with project teams to provide product testing services.

• Provide product testing services for new product development, product cost reductions, manufacturing plant transfers, and other projects requiring testing services.
• Participate in multiple project team efforts, collaborating with design engineering, project management, operations, purchasing and material planning.
• Assist in documenting product requirements based on industry standards.
• Develop product evaluation test procedures and schedules.
• Develop test fixtures and test software as necessary.
• Specify and acquire new test equipment as necessary.
• Perform measurement system analysis.
• Submit lab requests, schedule testing resources and provide technical support and guidance to technicians performing tests.
• Provide regular feedback to product development teams on progress and results of testing.
• Write test reports documenting results of testing.
• Review and approve product design and engineering change documentation for conformance to company, customer, agency and industry specifications and standards.
• Deliver technical improvements to existing products, processes and services to reduce cost or improve quality where feasible.
• Maintain competency with corporate, business unit and lab quality management system documentation.
• Maintain competency with relevant industry standards for fiber‑optic products.
• Maintain competency with the range of lab test equipment or equivalent.
• Maintain competency with fiber‑optic products and technical principles or equivalent.
• Apply engineering tools such as Lean, Six Sigma, DMAIC, DoE, FMEA, MSA and uncertainty analysis.
• Travel internationally as required.
• Collaborate with current lab staff, including other test engineers and technicians, in a team‑oriented environment.
• Maintain and create lab documentation.
• Demonstrate core competencies:
  Collaborates—building partnerships and working collaboratively to meet shared objectives;
  Action‑oriented—taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with sense of urgency, high energy and enthusiasm;
  Self‑awareness—using feedback and reflection to gain insight into strengths and weaknesses;
  Self‑development—actively seeking growth through formal and informal channels.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering.
• 5 years experience in a related area.
• Solid communication skills, including excellent writing and fluency in English.
• Strong computer skills, preferably with programming experience.
• Skilled at planning and attention to detail.
• Ability to work effectively within a team environment.
• Ability to deliver technical improvements to existing products, processes and services.

Experience with design and testing of fiber‑optic products per international and domestic industry standards.