Domain

Test Engineering

Test engineers develop ATE programs, load boards and characterisation flows so parts ship with quality and low test cost.

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Daily work

  • Develop test programs
  • Debug on ATE
  • Yield and correlation analysis
  • Test cost reduction

Required skills

  • Advantest/Teradyne platforms
  • C/Python
  • Statistics & yield
  • Analog/digital measurement

Career roadmap

  • Electronics basics
  • Measurement theory
  • ATE platform training
  • Yield analytics

Future scope

India's OSAT/ATMP expansion (Tata, Micron, Kaynes) creates large test hiring.

Learning path for Test Engineering

Beginner roadmap

  • Instrumentation
  • Test flows
  • ATE programming
  • Data analysis

Recommended books

  • An Introduction to Mixed-Signal IC Test and Measurement — Burns & Roberts

Practice projects

  • Yield analysis notebook on STDF data
  • Simple bench test automation
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