Product Test Engineer Job Description
Product test engineer
provides expertise in manufacturing processes for PCBA components (Solder Paste Printing/Inspection, SMT Process, Reflow Wave Soldering, Washing, PCBA Testing).
Product Test Engineer Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
IC Test development
Yield enhancement and Test time reduction
Data collection and data analysis
IC failure analysis and debug
Test/HW debug
Procure and maintain necessary test equipment within an agreed budget
Assist the Head of Compliance with performing internal audits
Ensure that Test and Validation Plans are agreed upfront and incorporated into Project Plans and product engineering development activities
Be a key contributor in the development and production of Device level (Unit and Component) Test specifications through to Product level (integration and acceptance) Test specifications
Plan, develop and conduct independent Device tests that include integration with other Devices and Components prior to Product Integration
Product Test Engineer Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Product Test Engineer
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: NRTL, OSHA, NFPA, UL61010-1, CCNP, CCNA, BMW, CLAD, AGILE, XP
Education for Product Test Engineer
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the product test engineer job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Engineering, Electronics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Education, Technical, Communications, Physics, Communication
Skills for Product Test Engineer
Desired skills for product test engineer include:
C/C++
Agile/Lean software development principals
Finance/Investment Management industry
Communication protocols
Python
PCB assembly process
Reflow solder
SMT and PTH technologies and equipment
Wave solder
PERL
Desired experience for product test engineer includes:
Proven experience in Product engineering – 3 years of experience is an advantage
Experience with UltraFlex or/and other IC testers is an advantage
Knowledge in IC DFT is an advantage
Knowledge data analysis tools (JMP) is an advantage
Ability to drive projects to full execution in time
Strong statistics and data analysis background (JMP)
Product Test Engineer Examples
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Product Test Engineer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking to fill the role of product test engineer. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for product test engineer
- Perform ATM software installations and conduct system integration testing
- Creation and support of Automated Tests sequences
- Conduct automated and manual integration, acceptance and system tests
- Participate within device and product level design reviews
- Test Environment set-up, test equipment, specialist media test deck development, test specification
- Test equipment development, introduce robotics/automation
- Creation of Test Cases using Software Test Tools
- Develop comprehensive test scripts and scenario tests to fully validate against design specifications
- Issue regular Test Status Reports and Final Reports
- Provide independent input to project stage gates reviews
Qualifications for product test engineer
- Ability to wire up a product test setup
- Communications protocols, including IP
- PC operating systems
- Ability to work closely with development teams to enable resolution of critical defects
- Significant experience in a test role
- Formal and informal testing of software and embedded systems in all project phases
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of product test engineer. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for product test engineer
- Continuous improvement activity for test process effectiveness and product quality improvement
- Provide feedback for constant process and product improvement
- Document test results of defects and abnormal behaviors
- Validate systems to agency certification requirements
- Provide DFT requirements and requests to IC designers
- Specify & Develop IC production test using advanced ATE systems such as Advantest V93K
- Interface with IC production test engineering to debug and improve test applications
- Support R&D, production, and applications to resolve IC technical, yield, and quality issues
- Provide IC product expertise for fiber-optic ICs to assist module designers to optimize their design performance, cost, and quality
- Test, characterize and de-bug designs in the lab using manual and automated test setups with a wide variety of measurement equipment such as Bit-Error-Rate Testers, Network Analyzers, Digital-Communication Analyzers
Qualifications for product test engineer
- Degree, HND or equivalent in a technical subject
- ISEB Intermediate Level in Software Testing
- Applicants should be educated to Degree level in an Engineering Science discipline, Mechanical or Software Engineering
- 2 to 3 years of experience within and engineering development and manufacturing production environment supporting test and certifications activities and may include experience with design and production Quality function roles
- Experience with product and device level testing
- Experience in the development of test processes, tools and test techniques
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Product Test Engineer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for a product test engineer. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for product test engineer
- Support product qualification, characterization and release on ATE, temperature characterization, correlation, R&R (MSC), customer complaint handling
- Review and execute process to ensure test solutions received is adequate and meets all agreed expectations (example yield entitlements, number of hardware, test times )
- Full Chip ATE Simulation and Validation
- Circuit Block ATE Validation
- Identify and analyze to root cause with Design Engineering product marginalities
- Drive identified product issues to resolution
- Execute wafer level characterization
- Execute characterization on bench
- ATE test program development
- Custom ATE solution design
Qualifications for product test engineer
- Experience with s/w debugging and analysis tools
- Full product development lifecycle exposure
- You must have initiative, drive and determination to succeed, be customer focused and a strong team player
- Requires experience in Software Testing, Software Development, Applications Engineering, Technical Support, or other Testing/Quality Assurance role.
- Experience with Design for Six Sigma Approach (or equivalent)
- Experience with functional tester equipment (hardware/software)
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Our growing company is looking for a product test engineer. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for product test engineer
- Product families include SPLD, CPLD, FPGA, HDMI, MHL, DVI, and WirelessHD
- Develops, executes and support initiatives/programs/activities to meet AFO/site/BU goals around quality, yield
- Drives Quality Continuous Improvement across the factory around quality and yield
- Supports AFO initiatives on improving Quality and Yield though manufacturing process improvements
- Responsible for upholding compliance to company rules and regulations on general management items around safety, environment, labor, ethics, 5S, and other important management directives
- Setting up test environments to support the acceptance test effort
- Gaining an understanding of our system integrated environment
- Gaining an understanding of the product release functionality
- Learning the functions of each business unit
- Facilitating the coordination of the acceptance test effort with stakeholders and product engineering
Qualifications for product test engineer
- Ability to be security cleared to SC level
- Engineer degree in electrical/mechanical/mechatronics engineering
- Candidates should be able to install and configure Lenovo servers
- The candidate must have excellent teamwork skills and ability to work effectively as part of a larger test team
- Knowledge of VMware a plus however, not required
- Work in a team environment to provide support for ongoing production new business activities
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Product Test Engineer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking to fill the role of product test engineer. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for product test engineer
- Working with the business to scheduling PRT efforts to align with product releases
- Develop test algorithms to enable proper calibration and performance verification of optical modules and line card used in next generation Photonics Integrated Circuit (PIC) based network solutions of 4.8 TB and beyond
- Communicate across groups to ensure test capability meets customer and organizational goals
- Assist test development team, providing feedback of algorithm robustness by adeptly developing custom SQL queries and JMP scripts to verify test output and capability
- Create and implement infrastructure to enable volume module calibration and performance verification against key product specifications
- Provide timely feedback of test and product performance during development phase
- Help drive end to end test yield improvements and test time reduction efforts
- Establish strategic and tactical plans that address equipment obsolescence, cost of ownership, and productivity improvements while minimizing the impact to production deliveries and equipment downtime
- Work with the PSE leadership team in establishing and driving core strategic initiatives in support of the STRAP (Strategic Action Planning)
- Identify critical repair initiatives that drive cost, quality & productivity
Qualifications for product test engineer
- Knowledge of IC testing and proven experience of at least 3 years with IC test development is a must
- Support document formatting and release process
- The ability to work independently and in a mutli-national cross functional team
- The ability to handle multiple tasks while meeting project deadlines
- Basic Unix/Linux command familiarity
- Basic understanding of CMOS manufacturing (preferred)