Hayward Holdings Inc. (NYSE "HAYW") is the largest manufacturer of residential swimming pool equipment in the world, with a significant presence in the commercial pool market that is continuously growing. Hayward designs, manufactures, and markets a full line of residential and commercial pool and spa equipment including pumps, filters, heating, cleaners, salt chlorinators, automation, lighting, safety, flow control and energy solutions at our company owned facilities. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Hayward also has facilities in Tennessee, Arizona, and Rhode Island as well as Canada, Spain, France, Australia, and China. This position is based in ­North Kingston, RI.
Test Engineer Sr. will manage all aspects of production testing and test equipment. This includes the building, repair and maintenance of all test hardware on the production floor as well as providing proper training to test operators and periodically inspect and provide refresher courses if necessary. Candidate will also be required to development robotic or mechatronic test systems to aid in factory automation as needed.
Responsibilities

• Analyze and develop complete understanding of all circuits and functional blocks of a product
• Develop test specifications and requirements necessary to completely test the product, guaranteeing correct function of all circuits and functional blocks
• Design test hardware and test software which will perform tests as detailed in the test specification
• Work with Design Engineers and Manufacturing Engineers to develop ergonomic, fault tolerant test equipment
• Work with manufacturing personnel to develop test equipment that will be comfortable, safe to work with, repeatable and reliable
• Debug and repair existing test hardware and software as required
• Periodic Maintenance of test equipment as well as repair

Qualifications

• 5 years’ experience as a Test Engineer with responsibility for complete development of test platform from initial product specification to project completion
• Strong knowledge in digital and analog electronics, circuit analysis, and computer programming developing User Interfaces required
• Must have C and assembly language programming skills and familiarity with Microchip PIC processors, Arduino Controllers, and Raspberry Pi Linux Computers
• Must be able to demonstrate Windows programming ability using a common object orientated language such as Delphi/Pascal, Python, C#
• Knowledge of Embarcadero IDE’s a plus
• Successful applicant should be able to develop test applications for circuit board manufacturing environment, utilizing custom designed ‘bed of nails’ test platforms as well as interfaces to off-the-shelf test equipment such as programmable power supplies, spectrum analyzers, DMM’s, HiPot and programmable loads
• Experience in printed circuit board design using a schematic/CAD package such as Eagle, PCB123, KiCAD, or similar product
• Strong mechanical aptitude and hands on experience is required with standard machine shop tools (Drills, band saws, soldering/de-soldering equipment)
• Understanding of common communications protocols such as RS232, RS485, I2C, and SPI required
• Familiarity with Automated Optical Inspection systems
• Familiarity and understanding of optical testing methods measuring lumens, lux, wavelength, etc
• Familiarity with mechatronics and/or robotic platforms such as Universal Robotics, AUBO, Mecademic, Cartesian systems, stepper/servo drive systems
• Familiarity with electronic safety systems such as light curtains, LIDAR, capacitive touch, etc
• Familiarity with Regulatory Agency Testing guidelines such FCC, UL, CSL, etc/