Job Description

Job Title: Engineering Lab Technician

Work Location: Austin, TX, 78728

Duration: 12 Months

Work Type: Contract

Job Type: Onsite

Pay Rate: $25-25/hr on W2

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. This Client is an American multinational semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California, that develops computer processors and related technologies for business and consumer markets. global company that specializes in manufacturing semiconductor devices used in computer processing. The company also produces flash memories, graphics processors, motherboard chip sets, and a variety of components used in consumer electronics goods.

Job Description:

• Looking for additional candidates that are recent college graduates with EE bachelor's degree (CS degree is acceptable) and/or recently out of the military -- not looking for candidates with too much experience.
• Participate in a team of engineers to benchmark user experience criteria of leading-edge products using proprietary automation tools and manual testing methods.
• This test engineer will work with internal Engineers, program management, product management and software development to deliver results on time.
• This highly motivated team member will quickly diagnose any issues and resolve them or bring the issues to the attention of the lead engineer or software development team in order to maintain overall test schedule.

Technical Capabilities:

• HW setup and configuration
• Ability to connect/configure desktop/laptop/tablet PC peripherals according to test plan requirements (e.g. external monitors, keyboard, mouse, Bluetooth headset, dock, etc.)

Software installation, updates

• Ability to install an operating system, BIOS, driver updates and identify version information

Basic PC issue triage

• Ability to identify common PC issues (e.g., blue screens, hangs, etc.) and work with issue tracking systems to record issues, search for other instances of similar failure mechanisms, and apply workarounds (e.g. load specific driver version, apply OS update,

Test plan execution and optimization for efficiency

• Ability to read a test plan definition and optimize test execution (e.g., peripheral configurations and required changes, operator time for deploying required software updates, charging/discharging time for battery life tests, consider run time of specific applications/measurements, etc.)
• Ability to execute a manual test plan script (e.g. boot system, run a batch file, open chrome/browse website list) and report subjective user experience criteria (e.g. perceived fan noise, system touch temperature, snappy vs sluggish responsiveness)

Leadership Capabilities:

• Engages well with customers and partners while navigating through potential roadblocks
• Effective with executive communication and building respect
• Works cross-functionally across groups to quickly resolve issues that arise from testing

Education and Experience:

• RCG with a EE bachelor's degree (CS degree is acceptable)
• Strong analysis and problem-solving skills
• Team player with good communication skills
• Prior experience with client PC testing, diagnostic and debug preferred
• Prior experience with testing tools and environments, defect tracking and revision control
• Prior experience using and managing tasks through a ticketing system such as Jira

TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

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