Test Engineer
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Job description
In accordance with the proven Candidate skills, she/he will be part of Engineering team supported by the relevant Team Leader.
Functionally, the Candidate is part of the Project, with the main mission of stablish a test strategy to verify that the electronic units meet the requirements specified by the customer, in accordance with project schedule, cost and quality requirements. In a day-to-day basis, she/he will report to Project Manager. Within each project, the Test Manager is the Responsible of the Verification of the design and manufacturing of the unit, acting as a key role of the Project Team. The Candidate will work very closely to the Technical Manager, Project Manager, Product Assurance Manager, the Industrial Manager, the Validation Manager and the EEE/PCB manager. The Test Manager´s tasks comprise the complete verification cycle of an electronic equipment: from the analysis of the requirements in the Negotiation Phase to the acceptance campaign of the flight deliverables, once successfully passed the qualification of the unit. For this purpose, the Candidate will supervise, aligned with Project and Team objectives, the activities of the project team composed of the test engineers and technicians responsible of the validation of the Flight Unit.
Task and accountabilities
The successful applicant will be in charge of the following tasks:
- Active participation in the technical discussions with the customer during the Negotiation Phase, prior to formal kick-off of the project up to the in flight operations of the Space System.
- Assist to the Project Manager in the requirement assessment and in the risk identification.
- Close collaboration with the Technical Manager in the definition of the architecture of the Flight Unit based on the project requirements to optimize it and the Ground Equipment designs focusing on a Design for testing philosophy. This task will be performed in close co-engineering with other stakeholders (FPGA, Mechanical, Thermal, Materials and Processes, EEE, Radiation).
- Lead the requirement assessment to define the EGSE (Electrical Ground Support Equipment) architecture.
- Support to the Technical Manager for technical issues resolution, in strong collaboration with experts as necessary under quality and programmatic rules.
- Document and report the Design Validation of the Flight Unit in different documents (Verification Control, Document, Test Procedures and Reports) to support the design robustness against the different stakeholder during the different project milestones (Requirement Review, Preliminary and Architecture Review, Critical Design Review, Test Readiness Review, Test Review Board...).
- Support to the Test Engineers during the integration, qualification and acceptance test campaigns for the corresponding flight models (EQM, QM, PFM, FMs), including development of those jigs needed for (tooling, vibration and thermal fixtures, etc).
- During the recurrent phase of the project, the Candidate shall ensure close monitoring of any deviation, evolution and/or discrepancy from the agreed design.
- In charge of ensuring that the agreed hours for performing verification activities are met.
- Customer oriented, being able to reach a trust relationship based on a proactive and continuous support to show confidence on the design.
Requirements
We are looking for candidates with the following skills and experience:
- Educated to Master degree level (or equivalent) in engineering or science discipline.
- At least five years of experience in the Validation and Verification of Electronic Units.
- English and Spanish must be negotiation-level, both written and spoken.
- Technical excellence and technical challenge spirit.
- Digital mindset (automation of tasks, scripting, use of digital design tools and simulators).
- Excellent communication and reporting skills (both internal and external).
- Customer oriented.
- Strong team working and cooperation spirit to motivate the project team.
- Capability to propose practical solutions; constructive and innovative mindset to propose efficient solutions and committing way forward.
- Independent and autonomous way of working.
Recommended skills
- Knowledge of space environment constraints and European space regulations, ESCC, SMD, etc
- Familiar with Agile Methodologies.
- Technical knowledge of advanced test instrumentation to foster the testing automation (involving the development of scripts and data management).
- Happy to learn and teach others.
Feel like you can´t tick some boxes above? If you have most of the skills and experience that we´re looking for and are willing to use your talent to learn the rest, we encourage you to apply!
