Altech Trainee Test Technician Opportunities

Advertiser: Altech Multimedia International
Location: KwaZulu-Natal

Contract duration: 6 months
Minimum experience required: Less than 1 year
Minimum education required: Grade 12 / Matric
Qualifications required: Matric and progressing towards S4 Diploma
Number of openings: 2 (Two)

Key Responsibility Areas:
- Conduct h/w and s/w testing in the Test Lab
- Highlights deviations from expected results
- Perform Design Verification test
- Updates test procedures under guidance
- Ensure test decoders are labelled according to build state changes
- Complete test reports and configure
- Maintain a library of ATP boxes
- Perform acceptance tests on hardware using specialised equipment
- Produce ATP (Acceptance Test Procedure) results in MS Word or MS Excel format and inform the Engineers of detected problems
- Perform Validation Test Suite
- Perform Sanity and Field trial test

Job Requirements:
0 to 6 months working in an electronics industry with some exposure to electronic components, assembly and testing - but not essential.

Essential Competencies:
- Good MS office skills
- Team Player
- Good written English

Advantageous Competencies:
- Experience in testing hardware and software in an electronics environment
- Previous Set Top Box testing experience

Closing date: 14 September 2013

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Definitions:

Internship:

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  • The Undergraduate Internship: Usually with bigger organisations that pick undergraduates to attend the internship. It often takes places during the holidays and the average durations is a few weeks. In most cases the intern will receive some sort of stipend or salary and this type of internship may lead to a job offer to the intern once he / she is finished with their studies.
  • The Graduate Internship: This type of internship could be paid or unpaid and it is to gain practical work experience after the qualification has been completed and in a job related to the qualification. It could be from a few weeks or even one or two years long. This type of internship could also lead to permanent employment.

Learnerships:

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In-service training:

In-service training is to gain practical work experience during studies. It usually takes place after a few years of theory has been successfully completed. It is essential work experience that is part of the qualification and the in-service training is necessary to achieve the qualification. It could be paid or unpaid.