Design Quality Engineer
Job Summary
Lead product and software quality strategy across New Product Introduction, sustaining engineering, and improvement projects while driving reliability testing and root cause analysis. Participate in design, verification, and validation reviews to ensure quality requirements and process robustness are met. Partner with cross-functional engineering, manufacturing, and supplier teams to support mass production readiness and continuous quality improvement.
Responsibilities
- Lead product and software quality strategy across NPI and sustaining engineering
- Drive CTQ, APQP, DFSS, DfR, and FMEA activities
- Plan and execute reliability testing and failure analysis
- Lead root cause analysis and corrective/preventive actions (CAPA)
- Support ISO 9001 audits and quality management system requirements
Required Skills
- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Computer Science or related
- 5-6 years of experience in Quality Engineering and/or Design
- Strong understanding of electronic manufacturing and test processes
- Experience with quality tools and risk-based quality practices
- Strong troubleshooting and failure analysis capabilities
Job Details
Key Responsibilities
- Lead product/software quality strategy across NPI, sustaining engineering, customer issues and improvement projects with internal & external stakeholders.
- Participate in design, code, verification and validation reviews to identify risks and ensure quality requirements are met.
- Drive CTQ, APQP, DFSS, DfR and FMEA activities to strengthen product and process robustness.
- Plan and execute reliability testing, including HALT and ORT, and conduct hands-on electrical/mechanical failure analysis.
- Lead root cause analysis, corrective/preventive actions (CAPA) and cross-functional problem resolution.
- Ensure product and process readiness for mass production and successful product launches.
- Partner with Engineering, Manufacturing, Service and Suppliers to drive risk mitigation and continuous improvement.
- Support ISO 9001 audits and Quality Management System requirements.
- Identify and implement AI, analytics and automation opportunities across design, testing, quality and manufacturing.
- Translate engineering and process data into scalable solutions that improve defect detection, test efficiency, quality and productivity.
- Provide regular project quality updates, escalate risks and drive timely resolution.
Requirements
- Min. Bachelor's Degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related disciplines.
- Min 5-6 years' experience in Quality Engineering and/or Design within electronics or software development.
- Min. 4-5 years of experience in both external and internal customer-facing roles, with strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Strong understanding of electronic manufacturing, assembly and test processes.
- Experience with product development, quality tools and risk-based quality practices.
- Experience supporting or auditing ISO 9001 quality systems.
- Strong hands-on troubleshooting and failure analysis capabilities.
- Proven ability to collaborate across Engineering, Manufacturing, Service and global teams.
Preferred but not a must
- Experience with SDLC, Agile, Scrum, SAFe or Lean methodologies.
- Knowledge of Six Sigma, DFSS or Reliability Engineering.
- Experience in hardware design/manufacturing within automotive, aerospace, semiconductor or consumer electronics.
- Relevant certifications such as ASQ CSQE or Six Sigma Black Belt.
- Exposure to AI/GenAI, Machine Learning, analytics, data visualisation or digital automation in engineering, testing, quality or manufacturing.
- Familiarity with data pipelines, model validation and scalable digital solutions.