Senior Lead Engineer, Test Development 1

General Overview

Functional Area: Engineering (ENG)
Career Stream: Test Engineering Development (TED)
Role: Senior Lead Engineer (SLE)
Job Title: Senior Lead Engineer, Test Development
Job Code: SLE-ENG-TED
Job Level: Level 09
Direct/Indirect Indicator: Indirect

Summary

The Senior Lead 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.
A Test Development Engineer 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).

Detailed Description

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

• Lead the development and implementation of technical solutions in multiple domains. Participate in project planning and scheduling.
• Provides technical leadership and direction to a team of engineers. May be a recognized expert (go to person) in one or more technical areas
• Review, interpret and may negotiate customer requirements/specifications and provides customer feedback
• Lead the deployment of strategic programs and coordinate site-wide deployment efforts.
• Proactively promote industry best practices
• May manage relationships with key vendors/partners.
• Create structural or functional test strategy and test plan to meet project goals and requirements
• Create technical proposals with costed BOM, hours, and schedule estimates
• Lead requirements generation with minimal to no guidance, leveraging design specifications and technical product design data
• Provide technical program management for mid to large projects
• Establish best known methods and processes for test development execution (Structural or Functional) for local and regional teams
• Analyze industry trends and setting short term investment and skill development strategies and business cases with local or regional impact
• 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 focusing 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.
• Keeping up to date with relevant industry knowledge and regulations

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

Refer to technical skills below

Physical Demands

• Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment.
• Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data.
• Repetitive manual movements (e.g., data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc.) are frequently required.
• Occasional travel may be required.

Typical Experience

• 4 to 6 years in a similar role or industry.

Typical Education

Bachelor degree or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Educational Requirements may vary by Geography

Notes

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Job duties and the % of time identified for any function are subject to change at any time.