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