Question

You are the test engineer responsible for the final production testing of an automobile (VW Golf R 2018) - create a list of tests with specifications as well as a block diagram depicting your test plan and the order in which you plan to test the car.  

Answer 1

A vehicle test engineer handles the tasks of designing, developing protocols and testing reports for testing automobile products to meet product requirements. His job includes verification and validation of test plans, test procedures, test reports, developing testing methodology, techniques, and standards. The position requires people with good analytical and troubleshooting skills.

Test engineers can have different expertise which depends on what test process they are more familiar with (although many test engineers have full familiarity from the PCB level processes like ICT, JTAG, and AXI) to PCBA and system level processes like board functional test (BFT or FT), burn-in test, system level test (ST). Some of the processes used in manufacturing[1] where a test engineer is needed are:

In-circuit test (ICT)
Stand-alone JTAG test
Automated x-ray inspection (AXI) (also known as X-ray test)
Automated optical inspection (AOI) test
Continuity or flying probe test
(Board) functional test (BFT/FT)
Burn-in test
Environmental stress screening (ESS) test
Highly Accelerated Life Test (HALT)
Highly accelerated stress screening (HASS) test
Ongoing reliability test (ORT)
System test (ST)
Final quality audit process (FQA) test