Test engineer

A professional who determines how to create a process that would test a particular product in the manufacturing in order to guarantee that the product will be shipped out with good quality. Test Engineers (TE) 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 process.

Test engineers can have different expertise which depends on what test process they are more familiar with (although many known TE have full familiarity from the PCB level process like ICT, JTAG, and 5DX to PCBA and System level process like board functional test (BFT or FT), Burn-In, system level test (ST). Among some known process used in manufacturing where a TE is needed are as follows:

• In-Circuit Test (ICT)
• Stand-alone JTAG Test
• 5DX test (also known as X-ray test)
• Automated Optical Inspection (AOI) Test
• Flying Probe Test
• Board Functional Test (BFT / FT)
• Burn-In Test
• Environmental Stress Screening (ESS) Test
• Highly Accelerated Life Test (HALT)
• Highly Accelerated Stress Screening (HASS)
• On-Going Reliability Test (ORT)
• System Test (ST)
• Final QA Test (FQA)

Links:

• [www.AutomatedOpticalInspection.com]
• [www.BoundaryScanTesting.com]
• [www.ElectronicTestingLabs.com]
• [www.FlyingProbeTesting.com]
• [www.PrintedCircuitAssembly.com]
• [www.ICT-InCircuitTesting.com]
• [www.Quality-Control.com]
• [www.SurfaceMountTechnology.com]
• [www.TestEquipmentSources.com]
• [www.VideoVisualInspection.com]
• [www.X-RayInspectionSystems.com]

(links taken from Electronic Assembly News web page)