Description
The Global Manufacturing Operations (GMO) Testing Engineering team is a vital part of Cisco's Manufacturing ecosystem, focused on ensuring the quality, reliability, and performance of manufacturing processes and products.
As a Global Manufacturing Operation Testing Engineer technical leader, you will play a key role in validating manufacturing processes and product quality through comprehensive testing and analysis. You will define the strategy and structure to be used on complex and new products while improving the technical skills of other test engineers.
Responsibilities:
- Develop, implement, and execute test plans and procedures for manufacturing processes and products.
- Own end-to-end test strategy, defining test strategies from ICT to Functional system test, optimizing test time vs throughput, detection vs escape risk, and coverage vs cost.
- Analyze test data to identify trends, root causes, and opportunities for process improvements.
- Collaborate with manufacturing, quality, and engineering teams to resolve production issues and optimize testing methodologies.
- Support new product introductions by validating manufacturing readiness and process capability.
- Manage functional test capacity, expansion planning, and execution.
- Develop and maintain functional test, system level test, Chamber, Burn-In, Stress test, test fixtures, and manage golden units.
- Improve yield based on data analytics, handling large datasets from manufacturing lines using statistical methods like correlation and regression.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, or a related technical discipline with 10+ years of experience in manufacturing test engineering within a global environment.
- Proven ability to develop and execute comprehensive test plans, utilizing advanced data analysis tools and software.
- Expertise in maintaining manufacturing compliance standards and documentation, combined with strong skills in failure analysis and debug.
- Deep technical expertise in high-speed digital interfaces, functional validation of complex boards, and testing of complete telecom systems.
- Experience with manufacturing testing automation tools, combined with programming proficiency (e.g., Python, C/C#) and data analytics skills.
- Fluent in English, with the ability to communicate effectively and collaborate within a global technical environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Familiarity with Lean Six Sigma or other continuous improvement methodologies.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively across global teams.
- Proactive problem-solving approach characterized by attention to detail and a consistent focus on quality and efficiency.