Associate III - Semiconductor Product Validation

Role Description Role Proficiency: Conducts root cause analysis and bug advocacy in Semiconductor Products; tracking activities to closure with very minimal supervision Outcomes - Conducts validation and root cause analysis - Perform escape analysis - Isolate/ packetize the failures to correct components - Attend customer meeting and communicate effectively on the requirements and results. - Locate the product failures and report it in test repository and bug tracker - Learn technology business domain system domain individually and as recommended by the project/account - Complete the certifications for the role (like ISTQB UST GAMMA certifications) - Execute test cases across the functionalities Measures Of Outcomes - Number of showstoppers and critical bugs found - Adherence to schedule / timelines - Number of defects post delivery - Number of non-compliance issues - Reduction of reoccurrence of known defects by SLA - SLA in turnaround of production bugs - Defined productivity standards for project - Completion of all mandatory training requirements Outputs Expected Manage Project: - Perform task deliverables with quality and targeting completion timeframe. Estimate - Estimate time effort and resource dependence for one's own work and for others' work. Document - Create documentation for own work - Create test reporting templates BKMs and knowledge sharing documents for team Status Reporting - Report status of tasks assigned - Compliance with validation standards and process Mentoring - Host classroom training sessions for the junior validation engineers - Set FAST goals and provide feedback to FAST goals of mentees Skill Examples - Should possess good bug advocacy skills - Should have good report consolidation and presentation skills as well as diplomacy - Should have automation scripting skills - Should be able to do severity and priority identification of sightings raised - Working with Windows OS flavours and installation - Working with BIOS drivers and various display protocols - Ability to estimate effort time required for own work and for the junior engineers - Ability to perform and evaluate test in the customer or target environment - Work in a team environment - Good written and verbal communication abilities - Possess good analytical skills Knowledge Examples - Excellent domain and product knowledge - Good knowledge of CPU/ GPU architecture - Awareness of Benchmarking tools and their functionalities - Possesses very good knowledge of products Additional Comments 1 ATE Test Engineer - Plan and execute pattern validation plans based on schedule - Plan and execute on charz plans based on schedule - Support HTOL and Pkg qualification activities based on schedule - Provide DIB boards design guidelines based on schedule - Work with AMD Pkg and HWI team for HW readiness based on schedule - Work with AMD design team for content readiness based on schedule - ATE test program development, validation and release - Plan and execute sample deliveries plan based on schedule - Plan and execute yield attainment plans based on schedule - Plan and execute test time attainment plans based on schedule - Align testpoints and define Vid bucketing based on schedule - Work with Quality to support RMA debug to meet cycle time with the customers and drive quality improvements to meet targeted DPPM - Qualifying OSAT for manufacturing testing - Manufacturing, and post-manufacturing product life cycle support 3.2 Product Engineering - Familiarity with Semiconductor (CMOS) Testing - Familiarity with Personal Computer Systems (basic Motherboard configuration, Windows OS, baste BIOS settings) - Familiarity with ATE (Advantest 93k) operation, debug and data collection features. - Data Analysis know-how, baste ability with statistical tools (e.g. SQL, JMP, etc.) - Familiarity with DFT concepts (ATPG, BIST, etc) - Have experience on yield engineering and driving yield margin - Work with AMD system teams to align on Vid allocation methodology and ensure product bounding box is met Skills Validation,Team Building,Bug Fixing