WHAT DOES A TEST ENGINEER DO?
Updated: Mai 29, 2025 - The Test Engineer orchestrates detailed test plan development, automating scripts and coordinating schedules with global teams for efficient execution. Manages a product power dashboard and conducts thermal testing, ensuring support to customer queries and effective dashboard management. Engages in rigorous test execution, collaborates with diverse technical teams, and develops innovative testing methods to enhance product development and data analysis processes.
A Review of Professional Skills and Functions for Test Engineer
1. Test Engineer Duties
- Employee Health: Fulfill company values and safety policies through preventive medicine services for employees
- Emergency Response: Transport injured or ill personnel using knowledge and criteria
- Data Management: Consult employee data and files to complete assigned reports
- Safety Audits: Comply with monthly injuries and illness prevention audits
- Preventive Medicine: Fully comply with all annual preventive medicine programs
- Incident Response: Attend all accidents or incidents involving employee injuries
- Service Satisfaction: Maintain a minimum of 80% in the service satisfaction survey
- Certification Maintenance: Fully maintain all required certifications
- Performance Evaluation: Comply with the review of job description, personal development plan, and performance evaluation plan
- Regulatory Compliance: Comply with all specific activities for SAA and OSHA
- Medication Administration: Provide medication using the controlled medication list for general illnesses
- Medical Support: Aid the physician in periodic and new hire medical examinations
- First Aid Training: Participate in giving first aid training
- Drug Screening: Administer the drug screening program
2. Power Test Engineer Details
- Dashboard Management: Take charge of product power dashboard, DoU, and thermal testing at the lab
- Power Analysis: Perform power breakdown, provide logs and initial analysis to help developers locate issues
- Test Plan Development: Define test plan, develop test scripts by automation, sync up project schedule and issues with local and global site teams
- Customer Support: Cooperating and supporting external customers
- Dashboard Management: Take charge of product power dashboard, DoU, and thermal testing at the lab
- Power Analysis: Perform power breakdown, provide logs and initial analysis to help developers locate issues
- Test Plan Development: Define test plan, develop test scripts by automation, sync up project schedule and issues with local and global site teams
- Customer Support: Cooperating and supporting external customers
- Test Execution: Execute technically meaningful tests on motorcycles and components using data acquisition equipment
- Data Analysis: Compile, analyze, and report test results to engineering in a timely manner
- Method Development: Develop new techniques and test methods to improve and reduce product development time
- Collaboration: Collaborate with engineers, technical specialists, mechanics, and riders for optimal results
- Goal Achievement: Deliver test and lab goals with fairness, honesty, positivity, and creativity
- Data Acquisition: Demonstrate understanding of data acquisition systems and techniques through testing projects
3. Test Engineer Responsibilities
- Requirement Analysis: Liaising and understanding requirements of work requests from Test Engineers
- Test Translation: Translation of requests into practical in vitro tests
- Test Planning: Planning and execution of tests, analysis of data, and completion of formal reporting
- Project Assistance: Assist Test Engineers as and when required on a variety of projects
- Lab Support: Help Test Engineers in the lab to perform testing
- Test Setup: Set up of test assemblies
- Departmental Contribution: Contribute to departmental initiatives and meetings (within the laboratory and wider R+D)
- Equipment Maintenance: Maintain laboratory inspection/test equipment, ensuring serviceability, calibration, servicing, and breakdown repairs
- Training Management: Ensure training is up to date for all testing being undertaken
- Standard Testing Knowledge: Understand the difference between standard ISO testing and non-standard testing
- Equipment Management: Identify new equipment needs, maintain a register, and store fixtures
- Fixture Design: Design and facilitate the manufacture of one-off fixtures using CAD
- Usage Recording: Record machine usage, including work tasks, calibration, and maintenance
4. Test Engineer Accountabilities
- Project Management: Manage multiple initiatives and projects simultaneously
- Instrumentation Setup: Set up and calibrate sensors and instrumentation to gather useful test data
- System Analysis: Analyze and troubleshoot electrical, pneumatic, and hydraulic systems
- Documentation: Thoroughly document projects, test procedures, test results, etc.
- Test Plan Development: Assist with the development of test plans for individual components
- Project Execution: Ensure that projects are executed to achieve cost and time goals
- Travel: Occasionally travel for product certification testing
- Test Supervision: Research, plan, set up, and supervise/perform tests on products, equipment, or systems
- Data Analysis: Analyze test data and write technical reports
- Failure Analysis: Determine the root cause of failure and make recommendations for improvement
- Verification & Validation: Drive the equipment/system verification and validation process through to system certification
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Work with key stakeholders to review customer requirements and ensure products/systems meet requirements
- Documentation: Develop and maintain relevant documentation, technical packages, and test instructions
- Specification Comparison: Use data, observations, and engineering experience to draw conclusions and compare to required specifications
5. Test Engineer Functions
- Test Case Development: Develop and execute test cases to provide maximum test coverage by working closely with the Product Consultancy & Technical Services team, analysing business requirements and client user stories and ensuring quality as early as possible in the cycle.
- End-to-end Testing: Design end-to-end testing that covers various client configuration sets, workflows, APIs and interfaces.
- Test Ownership: Take test ownership of the new and existing technical services testing of customer configurations across supported platforms.
- API Testing: Ensure that there is adequate API test case coverage.
- Environment Setup: Setup, configure, and maintain test environments.
- Test Automation: Help automate new test cases and automate priority regression test cases as well as maintaining/improving the existing automated suite.
- Defect Management: Work with other engineers and the support teams to identify, log, triage and communicate defects using established tools like JIRA.
- Stakeholder Communication: Ensure all major stakeholders are informed of critical issues that may block software releases to clients.
- Process Improvement: Research and propose improvements to existing manual and automation testing in the team.
- Workflow Optimization: Use experience to improve team workflow and practices.
6. Omnipay Test Engineer Job Description
- Testing Activities: Performs testing activities including consultancy, estimation, planning, design, scripting, execution, debugging and reporting tasks.
- Project Management: Handle small to medium projects independently.
- Automation Testing: Monitors and executes automation test activities for large sized projects/programs.
- Scope Definition: Works with Technical and Business groups to define the scope of testing required.
- Team Guidance: Provides guidance to team members on the scripting and execution activities to accomplish the test plan and design requirements for large projects/programs.
- Tool Research: Researches new tools and testing approaches, and executes upon/monitoring the implementation of such items.
- Error Debugging: Post test execution activities include error debugging, reporting needs and internal and external communications.
- Tool Proficiency: Extremely well trained and conversant with usage of tools – JIRA, XRAY, Selenium, Cucumber etc.
- Metrics Utilization: Understands and utilizes metrics critically in the testing process
- Test Scenario Creation: Be innovative to think of new use cases based on experience gained and better understanding of the system to create test scenarios for in-depth testing
- Test Plan Development: Add them as part of a test plan to be executed for the next cycle of tests
- Team Collaboration: Work independently and as a team member with other Engineers, Designers, and Joint Venture Partner key stakeholders
- Vendor Engagement: Engages with vendors and internal customers to collaborate on projects and tasks