About this role:

Advertising and digital signage is big business now with companies seeing sales & profits boosted by 124% on average. As such there is a great market for business and facilities looking to utilise digital signage to attract advertisers looking to boost their sales.
And did you know that one of the leading manufacturers of digital signage is right here in Bolton?

They not only design, manufacture and build the screens all in house but also provide a complete service to their customers to ensure uptime of the screen and provide real time performance data. 

They’ve created their own unique software that delivers the real time performance data allowing 24 hour insight which relies on the software being right first time! As such they are looking for a software engineer to focus on manufacturing test development.

Job Responsibilities:

• The key aim of this role is to develop software applications for functional testing of product hardware modules and systems 
• Provide test specifications for hardware modules, sub-assemblies, final assembly and QA tests 
• Develop and maintain product tracking software tools and databases 
• Assist with the development of production test strategies for modules and final assemblies 
• Maintain existing product test software to keep pace with NPI, new variants and change control 
• Develop and maintain a close relationship with design engineering team to ensure products are optimised for manufacturing test 
• Support factory test data logging on internal network and provide reporting tools 
• Assist in the development of product variant verification processes and tracking automation 
• Assist with prototype builds and NPI, feedback design for assembly / test issues to the engineering team 
• Provide production test support, assist in diagnostics and failure analysis 
• Specify and implement production test IT equipment in line with IT policies and procedures 
• Identify test escapes and implement continuous improvements 
• Provide work instructions to support product test and configuration 
• Work closely with the customer software and support teams to coordinate and integrate production test software for delivered products 

Experience Required:

• 3-5 years in a software application development role ideally in a manufacturing test environment 
• Electronics hardware knowledge is an advantage 
• Experience of automated test and integrated test systems is desirable 
• Core coding skills in C# using visual studio 
• Experience of interfacing with API’s and control of external peripherals via serial interfaces 
• A proficient knowledge of Linux OS (Ubuntu)