Associate Quality Hardware Engineer

Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated; North Canton (OH); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated in North Canton, Ohio seeks a Hardware Quality Engineer to define and execute quality tests, analyze results, and drive improvements. The role collaborates with design and engineering teams to ensure products meet end-user requirements and industry standards.

The candidate will develop test methods, automate tests where applicable, and report progress to leadership while supporting ongoing quality enhancements across hardware products.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (mechanical or electrical preferred) or equivalent work experience.
• 2-4 years of relevant quality engineering experience.
• Experience using Jira for test case management.
• Project management skills and ability to coordinate with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Provide hardware quality engineering support for a defined product or process area.
• Engage with stakeholders to understand projects and expectations from a quality perspective.
• Perform test development and setup, execute design quality tests, and develop analysis reports.
• Assist with test automation across product development, integration, performance and benchmarking.
• Participate in design reviews to improve product design from quality and regulatory perspectives.
• Monitor production/maintenance processes to identify issues and contribute to corrective actions.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder communication

Quality engineering

Test automation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Tools

Jira

Job description

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Engages cross-functionally with other technical / engineering teams to define product quality requirements (quality figures, CTQ, acceptance criteria), determine hardware design direction, develop concepts, drive production processes and test prototypes. Plans, conduct and documents thorough design quality tests to ensure that hardware operates properly, is defect-free, robust, and meets specified standards and end-user requirements. Utilizes a structured root cause analysis method to analyze and perform tests to reproduce and resolve problems. Reports progress on QA project status and problem resolution to leadership. Develop test methods and tools to automate and harmonize test procedures as needed. Drives continual process improvements in the evolution of testing procedures and test coverage for future replication.

Location: Onsite, North Canton, Ohio

• Provides Hardware Quality Engineering support for a defined product or process area.
• Engages and communicates with assigned stakeholders to understand projects and expectations from a quality perspective.
• With limited guidance performs Quality Engineering duties, including:
  • Collecting and analyzing product requirements and other relevant data for planning tests,
  • Performing test development and setup,
  • Executing design quality tests,
  • Developing analysis reports,
  • Working with Quality Engineering team members and product / technical stakeholders to identify, analyze and develop resolution strategies for typical technical problems.
• Assists with test automation associated with product development, integration, performance and benchmarking.
• Participate in design reviews to improve the product design from a quality, reliability, robustness and regulatory perspective.
• Monitors production / maintenance processes to identify issues, perform failure analysis and contribute to corrective action decision-making.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (mechanical or electrical preferred) or equivalent work experience required.
• Minimum of 2-4 years of relevant experience or equivalent combination of education and experience in Quality Engineering.
• Experience using Jira for test case management.
• Project Management skills.
• Experience communicating with assigned stakeholders to understand projects and expectations from a quality perspective.
• Ability to assist with test automation associated with product development, integration, performance and benchmarking.

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Detail oriented and organized.
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with a drive toward ownership of the solution.