• Review customer requirements during pre-award and early product design phase and develop validation plans to satisfy customer specifications (including EMC and environmental electronic testing plans). 
  • Conduct customer reviews of the test plans and obtain final customer approvals.
• Support customer quote efforts by providing cost estimates for ENV and EMC testing.
• Preparation of reliability analyses for customer (reliability calculations).
• Coordination of design verification and product validation testing and communication of results. 
  • Work with product engineering to ensure parts assigned for validation are of the proper build level and expected quality.  
  • Track first time through (FTT) metric for each test plan.
• Collaborating with engineering, quality and warranty groups on common failure modes to ensure any additional screening or robustness test are added to the internal ENV and EMC plans.
• Support review and sign-off on pre-production part builds to verify parts to be sent to customers will meet engineering quality expectations.
• Lead the test fixture development process:  test fixture specification, sourcing, build and approval, in collaboration with PD and Quality engineers.
• Lead collection of necessary test boxes, interface boxes, wire harnesses and other hardware necessary to perform the testing.
• Prepare specifications (from existing test plans) to support outsourced testing, as required.
• Maintain database of customer and industry validation specifications.
• Support test plan development for engineering changes and cost reduction investigations.
• Support Continuous Improvement process to keep updated documents related to product validation, such as: Test Readiness Checklist, Design guidelines, Standard Templates development, DVPR baselines, etc.

Experience Requirements

• 5 years minimum related experience preferred
• Experience preparing ENV and EMC test plans is required (Test Plan, DVPR or other format).
• Experience working with electronic components per automotive industry
• Knowledge of LED applications, electronics integration and EMC. 
• Knowledge of electronics handling and end-of-line testing (EOL) is a plus.
• Knowledge of typical electronics phenomena such as ESD and EOS.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills required.  Experience interfacing with automotive OEMs is desired.  Ability to work with multiple teams is critical.