Software Quality Control Manager 422S22

Company Overview

Who are we? We research, develop, and manufacture the world's most advanced inspection and measurement equipment for the semiconductor and nanoelectronics industries. We enable the digital age by pushing the boundaries of technology, creating tools capable of finding defects smaller than a wavelength of visible light. We create smarter processes so that technology leaders can manufacture high-performance chips—the kind in that phone in your pocket, the tablet on your desk and nearly every electronic device you own—faster and better. We're passionate about creating solutions that drive progress and help people do what wouldn't be possible without us. The future is calling. Will you answer?

Group/Division

The ICOS Vision Systems division focuses on the backend of the line semiconductor industry providing fully automated tools to inspect and sort, finished integrated circuit packages. For more than 15 years, ICOS has been a market leader with tray-to-tray and tray-to-tape inspection and sorting tools found in the production facilities of all major chipmakers in the world. Our market-leading technology and superior customer service requires strong talent in optics, machine control, algorithms and applications within our engineering teams. The ICOS division headquarters are in Leuven, Belgium with additional engineering and manufacturing operations in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, China.

You will play a primary role in planning, implementing, leading and executing testing and quality control of the software running on the ICOS inspection machines.

The role requires hands-on QC expertise, ability to take initiative and develop and evolve our QC processes. The right candidate will be able to analyze the systems to determine what to test, the priority of those tests and the best way to test and lead the small and dynamic SQC team to be the final quality gatekeepers for our software.

• Supervise all aspects of quality control including establishing metrics, developing new tools and processes to ensure quality goals are met.
• Act as key point of contact for all quality aspects of releases, providing services and coordinating the SQC team. Communicate clearly to the field application engineers on the quality of releases to our customers as well as keeping the product management involved on progress of testing, bug resolution and quality metrics.
• Lead and mentor your team members to grow them to the next level.
• Develop and execute test cases, scripts, plans and procedures (manual and automated) to be executed on real machines and simulated setups.
• Diagnose bugs and follow them from discovery to resolution, by engaging with the engineering team for resolution.
• Partner with engineering teams to stay informed of new technologies being introduced and to ensure that system components are designed for testability.
• Respond to all requests from team members and partners in a timely and professional manner.

• 5+ years’ experience in the software quality field including prior hands-on quality engineering experience, preferably in the field of industrial automatization or robotics
• Proven experience developing and executing test cases, scripts, plans and procedures to support various development methodologies
• Familiarity with entire software creation process and test cycles (Unit, Regression, Functional, Systems, Stress & Scale, Smoke & Sanity)
• Affinity and interested in industrial automation, machines, robotics or visual inspection is a definite plus
• Understanding of existing QC methodologies to craft, implement and automate processes
• Detailed and effective written communication skills for documenting the features tested and bugs found
• Highly organized, detail oriented, very responsive and able to prioritize a large number of tasks
• Self-motivated, works well independently and with others
• Proficient in English

• As a world leader in the supply of process control and yield management solutions KLA-Icos provides an ideal environment for professionals to develop and grow in many functions and disciplines. The company culture is to encourage all employees to seek new challenges and to provide opportunities to grow in KLA-Icos.