Customer Validation Engineer
Micron
- Longmont, CO
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Serve as the subject matter expert for validation on customer test requirements, associated industry certifications and results.
- Reviews and challenges current test plans, coverage, and testing activities to drive both increased effectiveness and efficiencies across the product portfolio
- Recommend and instrument new validation approaches that drive better coverage, more accurate testing, and expanded testing services
- Utilize technical, project, and delegation experience to actively lead product test cycles
- Maintain knowledge of product functionality and associated industry certifications
- Study of product requirements to intensify estability
- Identification of suitable testing equipment
- Feedback & influence product design for the definition and implementation of new requirements/ performances
- Plan test schedules or strategies in accordance with project scope and delivery dates
- Definition of test cases to verify functional and not functional requirements are compliance to system requirements
- Working with product design for test cases developing coherently with FW and HW architecture
- Identification of PASS/FAIL criteria for test cases in term of number of cycles, statistical and temperature
- Enable shift-left efforts to move detection of failures from customer tests to internal-developed and maintained test frameworks
- Define the Test Implementation Strategy and Software Architecture to encompass both development and debug.
- Define, plan and execute a test automation strategy, to contribute to the on-going development of in-house automation frameworks/tools.
- Constantly evaluate, refine and enforce validation processes/methodologies
- Develop test cases and test scripts
- Supplying and Pre-formatting of samples for validation
- Execution of Product Validation flow to match programmed validation plan
- Monitoring of test time – Test time reduction
- Results analysis – Bin Pareto
- Report Generation - Report data in a clear format including concise comments about findings
- Track document revision to provide historical reference
- Root-cause and drive failures coming from upstream/downstream validation teams, customers and other partners to closure, while also articulating the associated risk.
- Implement systematic clear steps to reproduce failures while providing traceability to the bugs/gaps/escapes.
- Collaborate with partner teams to assess test results and generate deviation.
- BS in an engineering discipline or equivalent
- 8+ years of validation experience, with demonstrated ability to design and implement world-class product test strategies.
- Deep of knowledge of enterprise SATA & PCIe SSDs, NAND, memory storage hierarchy and enterprise storage. General knowledge of SATA/SAS and/or NVMe storage protocols is a plus.
- Ability to read and understand FW code analyze complex firmware, software (Windows & Linux), and hardware issues in system with experience in ASIC/ FPGA design and FPGA design tools.
- 5+ years of programming experiences in Python, C++. Preferable in the area of NVMe SSD testing.
- Demonstrated technical leadership experience with a proven ability to inspire and lead change.
- Ability to analyze problems, diagnose to root cause, and apply corrective actions
- Strong communication, facilitation, negotiation and teamwork skills across sites & time zones.
- Flexibility and the ability to adapt to a dynamic, rapidly changing environment with shifting demands
- Experience with Agile product development processes and project management
- Experience with quality and process improvement methodologies and tools (Lean, Six Sigma, value stream mapping, FMEAs, DMAIC)