Test engineer

A test engineer is a professional who determines how to create a process that would best test a particular product in manufacturing, quality assurance or related areas, like the RMA department, in order to assure that the product meets applicable specifications. Test engineers are also responsible for determining the best way a test can be performed in order to achieve 100% test coverage of all components using different test processes. Often test engineers also serve as a liaison between manufacturing, design engineering, sales engineering and marketing communities as well.

Test engineers can have different expertise which depends on what test process they are more familiar with (although many test engineers have full familiarity from the PCB level processes like ICT, JTAG, and AXI) to PCBA and system level processes like board functional test (BFT or FT), burn-in test, system level test (ST). Some of the processes used in manufacturing where a test engineer is needed are:

Ideally, a test engineer's involvement with a product begins with the very early stages of the design phase. Depending on the culture of the firm, the early stages could refer to Product Requirements Document (PRD) and Marketing Requirements Document (MRD)—some of the earliest work done during a new product introduction (NPI).

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