Senior Manufacturing Test Leader

connect; Secaucus (NJ); On-site; USD 98,000 - 131,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

401k match

Tuition reimbursement

Wellbeing resources

Paid time off

Job summary

ZT Systems, a Sanmina Company, is seeking a Test Manager to lead and scale manufacturing test strategy, operations, and validation across the product lifecycle. You will coordinate with engineering, quality, manufacturing, and suppliers to build robust test architectures and drive world-class outcomes in high-volume environments.

You will develop test requirements, lead teams, and implement DFT initiatives while improving yield, reliability, and throughput.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field.
• 8+ years in manufacturing test engineering, product validation, or quality engineering in high-volume production.
• 3+ years leading test engineering teams and complex programs.
• Experience with manufacturing test systems across board, module, system, rack, and integrated product levels.
• Experience deploying production test solutions for electronics/server PCBA or similar.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and execution of manufacturing test strategies across board, module, system, rack, and cluster levels.
• Manage test engineering teams responsible for development, validation, deployment and production support.
• Define test requirements, coverage plans, KPIs, and quality metrics.
• Oversee design, implementation and maintenance of test infrastructure, including hardware, software, diagnostics, and reporting.
• Drive Design-for-Test (DFT) initiatives with product engineering to improve testability.
• Establish standardized testing methodologies across multiple sites.
• Analyze yield, failure and reliability data to identify improvements and drive corrective actions.
• Lead RCA for manufacturing/test failures and ensure resolution.
• Use DOE, SPC, PFMEA and reliability analysis to improve quality and performance.
• Partner with manufacturing/quality/supply chain/design to support ramp-ups.
• Drive continuous improvement on yield, throughput, test efficiency and cost.
• Develop and manage project plans, resources, budgets, and timelines for test programs.
• Present metrics and improvement plans to senior leadership.

Skills

Test engineering leadership

Cross-functional leadership

Statistical analysis

Data visualization

Root cause analysis

Python

SQL

Minitab

JMP

DOE methods

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Master's degree preferred

Tools

MES

Test management platforms

Factory data systems

SQL

Minitab

JMP

Job description

ZT Systems, a Sanmina Company, is seeking a Test Manager to lead and scale manufacturing test strategy, operations, and validation across the product lifecycle. You will coordinate with engineering, quality, manufacturing, and suppliers to build robust test architectures and drive world-class outcomes in high-volume environments.

You will develop test requirements, lead teams, and implement DFT initiatives while improving yield, reliability, and throughput.