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# ATE Test Engineer - Contract

- **Company:** KO2 Embedded Recruitment Solutions Ltd
- **Location:** Norwood Hill, UK
- **Salary:** £93,600.0 - £114,400.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Software Debugging, Ethernet, LabVIEW, Release Management, RS-232, RS-485 Standard, Systems Integration, Test Data, Data Logging
- **Published:** July 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://find.jobs/jobs-near-me/apply/ats-redirect/?id=2892284811-2

## About the Role

* Automated test equipment development experience
 * Strong National Instruments LabVIEW development skills
 * Hands-on electrical hardware debug and test instrumentation experience
 * Experience integrating power supplies, DAQ, switching, measurement equipment and production fixtures
 * Comfortable working independently on-site with production and engineering teams
 * Clear documentation and structured fault-finding approach

## Description

We're recruiting on behalf of a client for a Contract ATE Test Engineer to build, integrate and bring a production final test station into service for a controller product line. This is a genuinely hands-on role - you'll be assembling and wiring the rack, integrating the fixture, and developing/debugging the LabVIEW test application that runs on it, so it suits someone equally happy with a screwdriver and a soldering iron as with LabVIEW code., * Assembling and commissioning a production ATE rack - power supplies, industrial PC, touchscreen HMI, measurement and switching hardware, safety hardware

 * Integrating barcode scanner, fixture interfaces, DUT connection harnesses and test accessories
 * Cable routing, labelling, continuity and insulation checks, basic electrical verification
 * Fitting and aligning the test fixture - pin mapping, mechanical interface checks, design-for-maintenance improvements
 * Developing and debugging the LabVIEW production test application - serial number scanning, product ID, config detection, sequence control, pass/fail logic, diagnostics and operator prompts
 * Implementing test data logging, results storage and production reporting; supporting executable build and release
 * Covering digital I/O, relay outputs, analogue inputs, and comms testing (Ethernet, RS232, RS485, CAN)
 * Debugging integration issues, reducing false failures, and supporting pilot builds through to manufacturing handover


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