Sr. Manager, Test Engineering - Pune
Verification, Validation & Test
About the role
This role leads the Pune test engineering team, assigning priorities and ensuring timely completion of engineering deliverables.
What you'll do
- Lead and develop the Pune test engineering team.
- Develop, validate, qualify, and release wafer sort, final test, characterization, and module test solutions.
- Support DC, AC, dynamic, parametric, high-voltage, high-current, and application-relevant testing for power semiconductor devices.
- Drive test program correlation and transfer between internal testers, OSATs, and external test locations.
- Analyze test and manufacturing data to identify yield loss, false failures, test escapes, equipment issues, and cycle-time improvement opportunities.
- Automate test execution, data collection, reporting, equipment monitoring, and engineering analysis.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering.
- 8-10 years of semiconductor test, product engineering experience, including team or project leadership.
- Experience developing and releasing production test solutions using automated test systems.
- Experience with wafer-level test, final test, characterization, correlation, & high-volume semiconductor manufacturing.
- Strong understanding of device behavior, test coverage, measurement integrity, yield analysis, and manufacturing controls.
- Experience leading cross-functional engineering activities and mentoring engineers.
- Experience working with OSATs, external test houses, equipment vendors, or test hardware suppliers.
Nice to have
- Experience testing SiC and/or GaN power semiconductor products.
- Experience with high-voltage, high-current, dynamic, switching, thermal, reliability, or power module testing.
- Knowledge of design for testability, guard banding, outlier detection, statistical process control, and test limit optimization.
- Experience with test data analytics, automated reporting, databases, or scripting.
- Experience transferring test solutions across engineering and manufacturing locations.
Market context
This role has been open 39 days — well above the 26-day median for Silicon Test Engineering roles.
Silicon Test Engineering · DFT Test
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Open roles in category
331
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Median days open
26 d
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Median salary
$154k
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| Metric | Navitas Semiconductor | All employers we track in this specialty (331 roles · 65 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 3 | 331 |
| Open roles in the wider Silicon Validation & Test family | 8 | 1977 · 109 employers |
| Median days open | 39 d | 26 d (+13 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $154k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Renesas Electronics · 34 open roles · median 26 d
- Infineon Technologies · 32 open roles · median 25 d
- Micron Technology · 22 open roles · median 16 d
- Qualcomm · 21 open roles · median 22 d
- AMD · 17 open roles · median 26 d
- NVIDIA · 16 open roles · median 21 d
How we counted: 331 open Silicon Test Engineering (DFT Test) roles from 65 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 16 Sept 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Silicon Validation & Test family row. Figures refresh nightly.