Re: job thing, maybe

John Larkin wrote:
One of my engineers left (to go teach in Indonesia or something, one
of those midlife things) and, talking things over, we decided that our
design engineers spend a lot of time on test procedures, test sets,
and writing test programs. If we had some help on those, we could
design more stuff. So instead of looking for a new design engineer, we
might actually prefer a test guy.


So, this person would

Work with engineering at the design stage to make sure things are nice
to build and test. Unique opportunity to be a PITA and get paid for
it.

Write test programs, mostly in PowerBasic.

Design and build (or get built) test sets.

Write test procedures.

Hostile prototype testing. Don't let us get away with anything lazy or
stupid.

Occasionally do some production testing, like when the regular folks
are on vacation or whatever.

Watch over returns and look for failure patterns, and then fix them.
(Our existing people are too timid to storm into engineering and
demand that we fix problems. They just quietly repair failed units and
send them back.)

Possibly, eventually, manage the test department if talents and
personalities permit.

Location is downtown (SoMa) San Francisco.

I figure I'll do the usual ads (Craigslist, SF Chronicle, SJ Mercury,
Monsterboard?) but I figure I'd post it here in case anybody is
interested or knows someone who might be.

My mail is jjlarkin atthing highlandtechnology dottycom.

John

If you can't find someone, I am perfectly willing to look into my past as a test engineer and _define_ test sets for you (for a very reasonable rate too).

At 5000 miles, it's not easy to do the tests, but perhaps it might ease getting someone into it.

Cheers

PeteS
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