The Test Engineer is responsible for developing, executing and reporting Validation and Verification V and V assessment tests for technology manufacturing resources, fabrication and assembly.
The Test Engineer contributes to the development and execution of V and V standards, evaluations and reporting for individual and comprehensive product testing programs.
Experience
- Needs to be hands on
- Very organized, good time management to ensure stuff happens within the project schedule and V&V group schedules
- Technically strong to ensure tool is tested in a thorough way
Responsibilities and Duties
- Contribute to the ongoing improvement or creation of procedures, processes and technologies associated with experiments, tests and the overall V&V methodology.
- Assume responsibility for the creation, content, adoption and reporting of test plans and programs.
- Assume responsibility for the assessment and optimization of test plans and programs with respect to coverage, efficiency and project risk reduction.
- Optimize the effectiveness and efficiency of individual tests and broader product testing programs by applying and tailoring standard tests or creating specialized tests.
- Employ techniques such as data acquisition, signal and noise analysis, significance studies, sample set optimization, confidence intervals, confidence levels and statistical analysis.
- Anticipate test failure modes and events.
- Engineer tests so as to record and provide effective investigative test data.
- Contribute to analytical and investigative activities such as FMEA, Hazard Analysis and Risk Control, and RCA.
- Integrate these and associated methodologies into the development, execution and analysis of experiments and tests.
- Execute experiments and tests or oversee their execution by technicians, as required.