Test Development Engineering Lead

Amphenol Corporation; Yocumtown (PA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Amphenol Corporation's ACS division in Etters, PA, is seeking a Manager of Test Development Engineering to lead development of electrical, functional, and manufacturing test solutions for high-speed interconnect programs.

You will drive NPI readiness, partner with Product, SI, Mechanical, Manufacturing Eng, Quality, and Supply Chain, and mentor a team of Test Development Engineers to deliver reliable, scalable test platforms.

Qualifications

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field; M.S. preferred.
• 8+ years of engineering experience in electronics, interconnect, test development, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience leading engineers, technical teams, or complex engineering programs.
• Demonstrated experience supporting new product introduction and high-volume manufacturing environments.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple programs, priorities, resources, schedules, and technical risks while driving results through cross-functional teams.
• Experience collaborating across functions, sites, and regions in a global engineering and manufacturing environment.
• Strong technical communication, problem-solving, decision-making, and people leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end development of electrical, functional, and manufacturing test solutions from concept and architecture through qualification, production release, and sustaining support.
• Drive test readiness into NPI program gates with clear ownership of technical performance, schedule, risk retirement, validation, and production launch deliverables.
• Develop and maintain standards for test coverage, correlation, repeatability, calibration, measurement accuracy, reliability, and data integrity.
• Ensure robust transfer to manufacturing through complete documentation, training, spare-parts planning, maintenance requirements, and escalation support.
• Lead architecture, design, validation, and deployment of automated test equipment (ATE), BERT, VNA, oscilloscope, fixture, interface, software, and data-system solutions within assigned programs.
• Support technology roadmaps for next-generation electrical and optical test methods, including 224G/448G PAM4, high-speed channel validation, automation, analytics, AI-assisted optimization, and test software modernization.
• Partner with Product Engineering and Signal Integrity Engineering to establish design-for-test (DFT), validation, and correlation methods for emerging products.
• Drive modularity, reuse, and common test platforms to reduce development lead time, cost, complexity, and support burden across programs and manufacturing sites.
• Implement and maintain disciplined operating practices for NPI and manufacturing test systems, including preventive maintenance, calibration, change logs, configuration control, equipment lifecycle management, and readiness reviews.
• Monitor and improve key test performance measures such as on-time readiness, first-pass yield, test escapes, measurement-system capability, station uptime, capacity, utilization, and cost of test.
• Drive closed-loop continuous improvement using test data, failure analysis, statistical process control, lessons learned, and standardized corrective-action methods.
• Ensure deployed test solutions remain stable, capable, documented, and supportable throughout production ramp and sustaining operations.
• Manage multiple NPI, sustaining, and strategic test development programs from concept through manufacturing release and production ramp.
• Establish project milestones, resource and capacity plans, technical priorities, risk mitigation actions, and status reporting across concurrent programs.
• Coordinate test engineering activities with regional and global engineering and manufacturing teams; escalated constraints and drive timely cross-functional closure.
• Build and maintain roadmaps for test platforms, automation, instrumentation, software infrastructure, and capability needs within the assigned organization.
• Partner with Product Engineering, Signal Integrity Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Operations, Global Quality, Supply Chain, Customer Engineering, and site teams to integrate test requirements into product and industrialization plans.
• Support customer technical reviews, test requirements, validation strategy, issue resolution, and readiness commitments as required.
• Communicate technical risks, tradeoffs, schedules, and readiness clearly to engineering, manufacturing, and business stakeholders.
• Work with equipment suppliers and technology partners to accelerate solution development and ensure lifecycle support.
• Lead, coach, and develop Test Development Engineers and technical contributors with clear priorities, objectives, accountability, and performance expectations.
• Build technical capability through mentoring, training, knowledge sharing, competency development, and succession planning within the team.
• Allocate work and resources based on program priorities, technical complexity, capacity, and business needs.
• Foster a culture of ownership, technical rigor, disciplined execution, collaboration, continuous improvement, and innovation across functions and international sites.

Skills

Technical communication

Problem-solving

Decision-making

People leadership

Education

B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field; M.S. preferred.

Tools

Python

LabVIEW

C#

Automation platforms

Test software architecture

Data acquisition

Test data systems

Job description

Amphenol Corporation's ACS division in Etters, PA, is seeking a Manager of Test Development Engineering to lead development of electrical, functional, and manufacturing test solutions for high-speed interconnect programs.

You will drive NPI readiness, partner with Product, SI, Mechanical, Manufacturing Eng, Quality, and Supply Chain, and mentor a team of Test Development Engineers to deliver reliable, scalable test platforms.