Description

Knowledge of fundamental hardware blocks & subsystems - CPU/microcontrollers, LVDS signaling, PCIe, USB, clocking, signal integrity & power issues

Debugging hardware and script development/debug skills. 

Ability to widely apply networking principles, theories and field concepts to product test 

Ability to draw parallels between hardware architecture and OSI networking fundamentals.

Extensive experience with instrument control & automation 

Participates on a project team of engineers involved in the specification, design, development, and test of hardware. Defines the unit and system-level test processes and procedures

Responsible for unit and system-level test architecture design (what to test and how to test to exercise all the components on a board). Writes complete unit and system-level test plans for an entire product family

Performs complex system-level unit and integration test. Debug/Mitigate complex system-level problems

Interfaces with Customer Eng., Marketing, and Sales to understand customer problems and requirements to continually improve internal engineering test methodologies and test cases 

These functions work closely with hardware design engineers, software/diagnostic engineers and manufacturing test engineers to determine a product test strategy, develop the necessary scripts, test the products and drive any issues to resolution for successful release to manufacturing

Leverage automation to implement test strategy & improve productivity

Test product's compliance to internal specs as well as industry standards

Provide detailed issue mitigation & drive issues to closure

Document test plans, procedures, & test reports

Root cause field issues & support customer escalation 

Education

Any Graduate