Test Bench Engineer

Purpose of the job

Looking for an exciting and permanent job offering a variety of assignments and interactions?

The test bench engineer defines and deploys the test strategy on Ekinops routers manufactured in Europe (2 sites outside of France).

You will be in charge of the test development, maintenance and evolution of all test benches deployed on both sites.

You will develop the test program and its environment to do devices functional tests and software customization according to customers’ specificities and you will define bench hardware parts and tools to enable this testing.

The test bench engineer provides technical support to EMS in case of problems and provides help with new features.

Duties and responsibilities

You will be joining the Manufacturing team (currently 70+ people) reporting to Industrialisation Team Manager and will be based in the Ekinops offices in Vélizy, working closely with EMS inside and outside the company.

You interact and work with a great variety of people inside Ekinops:

• Project Line Managers for new products and features,
• Industrial Product Managers for manufacturing tasks,
• R&D engineers for technical input
• and, of course, Production teams.

Main responsibilities:

• Ensure products are 100% tested and configured before shipment
• Work with R&D to define testing strategy
• Constantly optimize testing coverage and time
• Complete test program for new products and features
• Provide hot line support to EMS for production issues while testing
• Propose evolution to improve testability and efficiency
• Visits to factories (Belgium, Hungary) to meet production teams
• Follow up technical issues and propose solution to increase production yield

Skills and profile

General

• 3-year work experience
• Experience with scripting languages
• Experience with electronic products
• Computing engineering degree

Technical knowledge

• TCL-TK/Expect, C, C#, Linux world scripting tools …
• Windows and Linux environment
• Telecom data and voice features
• Electronic skills both software and hardware
• Written and spoken English

Behavioural indicators

• Ability to support pressure (hot line for real time production)
• Ability to plan and coordinate multiple activities at the same time
• Team work abilities
• Rigorous and methodical : test benches must be scalable and easy to maintain for constant evolution according to new products or features

Package

• Entry level
• Profit sharing program
• Meal subsidy
• Possibility to work remotely