Test Engineer (50977)

Valley Services Electronics•San Jose, CA

27d•$90,000 - $120,000

About The Position

We’ve been in business since 1981, founded on the principle of providing the best services to our customers through hard work and a commitment to excellence. VSE provides superior turn-key PCB solutions that exceed industry exacting standards. We provide assembly and engineering services for electro-mechanical products. VSE exists to empower life-changing and life-saving technologies worldwide. We are successful because of our commitment to exceptional customer service, being nimble, and delivering the highest quality. Our team members are humble, curious, and electric! We are team players, practicing gratitude and treating others with respect. We are passionate learners, hungry for understanding and eager to explore. We are energized with positivity, wired, and driven to succeed! Join our team to unlock our dynamic benefits: competitive pay, generous 401k match, flexible schedules, paid time off, holiday pay, health and wellness, along with opportunities for growth and development. JOB DESCRIPTION Responsibilities Under limited supervision, responsible for the engineering support of the testing of all products. Activities Develops and writes test procedures, specifies test equipment, and designs test fixtures and setups for simple PCB and complex systems. Supports debugging of products by technicians, provide training for new products and/or procedures. Performs failure analyses to correct product testing deficiencies or determine root cause of failures of returned items (RMA). Interface with customers on test correlation and test coverage issues and QA Inspector to schedule RMA repairs. Identify areas needing improvement and work to implement new tools/procedures to improve efficiency and effectiveness. May prepare spreadsheets, graphs, and reports to document and analyze test results, and SPC analysis of new test fixtures/techniques to validate or establish monitors of critical test processes. Provide technical direction and training to others in the test area. Other activities as conditions require.

Requirements

Academic: BSEE required. Qualifying industry and job experience acceptable.
Very good understanding of analog and digital electronics and microcomputer-based systems.
Experience: New College Grad (NCG) to 5 years experience
Knowledge: Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) and attention to detail and accuracy.
Comfortable with schematics, some hands-on circuit building/debug, and use of general purpose test equipment and computers.
Experience with some programming/scripting language(s) to develop test programs and/or analysis tools.
Basic understanding of Statistical Process Control (SPC) analysis techniques.
Professional, dependable, high energy level and self-motivated with excellent attention to detail and accuracy.

Nice To Haves

Experience with National Instruments hardware and LabVIEW programming preferred.

Responsibilities

Develops and writes test procedures, specifies test equipment, and designs test fixtures and setups for simple PCB and complex systems.
Supports debugging of products by technicians, provide training for new products and/or procedures.
Performs failure analyses to correct product testing deficiencies or determine root cause of failures of returned items (RMA).
Interface with customers on test correlation and test coverage issues and QA Inspector to schedule RMA repairs.
Identify areas needing improvement and work to implement new tools/procedures to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
May prepare spreadsheets, graphs, and reports to document and analyze test results, and SPC analysis of new test fixtures/techniques to validate or establish monitors of critical test processes.
Provide technical direction and training to others in the test area.
Other activities as conditions require.