Occupation Atlastest engineer
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/c8fa93eb-7c2c-42c3-b135-c2e825a6615e
test engineer
Test engineers plan and perform detailed quality tests during various phases of the design process to make sure that the systems are properly installed and function correctly. They analyse the data collected during tests and produce reports. They are also responsible for the safety of the test operations.
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Job Zone
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Zone 4: Considerable Preparation Needed
Considerable preparation. Usually a bachelor's degree plus several years of work-related experience, knowledge, or training.
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Occupational interest profile
ICRInvestigative · Conventional · Realistic — the three strongest interests, in order
- I Investigative5.56
- C Conventional5.07
- R Realistic4.85
- E Enterprising2.02
- A Artistic1.48
- S Social1.43
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Validation Engineers (17-2112.02): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its close O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (21)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- adjust engineering designs
- analyse scientific data
- analyse test data
- approve engineering design
- demonstrate disciplinary expertise
- engineering principles
- engineering processes
- industrial engineering
- interact professionally in research and professional environments
- manage personal professional development
- manage research data
- manufacturing processes
- operate open source software
- perform project management
- production processes
- synthesise information
- technical drawings
- test hardware
- test procedures
- think abstractly
- use technical drawing software
Optional (40)
- apply blended learning
- apply for research funding
- apply research ethics and scientific integrity principles in research activities
- communicate with a non-scientific audience
- conduct research across disciplines
- conduct routine machinery checks
- develop ICT test suite
- develop professional network with researchers and scientists
- disseminate results to the scientific community
- draft scientific or academic papers and technical documentation
- electrical engineering
- evaluate research activities
- follow nuclear plant safety precautions
- in-circuit test
- increase the impact of science on policy and society
- instrumentation engineering
- instrumentation equipment
- integrate gender dimension in research
- manage findable accessible interoperable and reusable data
- manage intellectual property rights
- manage open publications
- mentor individuals
- monitor nuclear power plant systems
- nuclear energy
- perform scientific research
- promote open innovation in research
- promote the participation of citizens in scientific and research activities
- promote the transfer of knowledge
- publish academic research
- speak different languages
- teach in academic or vocational contexts
- test electrical equipment
- test electronic units
- test instrumentation equipment
- test materials
- test microelectromechanical systems
- test optoelectronics
- test performance of power plants
- write routine reports
- write scientific publications
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
Closest occupations
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