Engineer Software Quality
About The Position
Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems Sector is seeking an Engineer Software Quality to join its team in Rancho Bernardo, California. The role defines and monitors mission assurance program specifications and processes to support mission success. It addresses quality, risk management, safety, reliability, and maintainability for program achievements, subcontractors, and suppliers in accordance with contractual requirements. The position also assesses program performance and risks and identifies resources needed to ensure mission assurance. The successful candidate works with Program, Engineering, software engineering, and systems engineering teams to establish quality objectives and ensure quality standards are followed. The role witnesses software qualification and system acceptance tests, supports audits and process evaluations, assesses software suppliers, and reviews engineering artifacts and requirements traceability. The position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret DoD clearance and involves travel estimated at 10% of the time. Relocation assistance may be available.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or another STEM-related field and 2 years of relevant software development integration work experience, or a Master’s degree in STEM with 0 years of relevant software development integration work experience.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance.
- Demonstrated knowledge of Agile software development processes.
- Demonstrated knowledge of C# or C++ and Python.
- Demonstrated experience in process monitoring, data collection, analysis, and metric reporting.
- Demonstrated experience in process and product evaluation.
- Experience with software code review.
- Aptitude for learning new software tools.
Nice To Haves
- Active Secret clearance.
- Experience with IBM DOORS.
- Experience with requirements traceability.
- Experience in a Software Engineering environment in an engineering capacity, including work plan review and root cause/corrective action analysis.
- Experience using the Atlassian tool suite and tools such as Bitbucket, Jira, and Confluence.
- Ability to work independently with all levels of management and customer representatives to identify solutions to complex problems.
- Understanding of Python libraries related to data analysis and machine learning.
- Hardware Engineering or hardware quality experience.
- Aircraft industry experience.
- Experience implementing formal software certification efforts such as DO-178, DO-254, or DO-330.
- Experience leading diverse teams through a formalized Root Cause/Corrective Action process.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with Program and Engineering management on program quality planning and establishing program quality objectives.
- Collaborate with software engineering and systems engineering functions to ensure quality standards are in place and followed.
- Witness software qualification and system acceptance tests to ensure approved test procedures are followed, requirements are verified, and test procedure and software anomalies are documented and tracked to closure.
- Support AS9100D audit activities and audit quality systems to identify non-conformances and corrective actions.
- Perform internal Process Evaluation audits against company standards and processes to identify deficiencies and opportunities for improvement.
- Evaluate software suppliers to ensure they have the capability and capacity to deliver procured software with unquestionable quality.
- Ensure corrective measures meet acceptable quality standards and documentation complies with requirements.
- Assist Software Engineering in collecting and reporting metrics.
- Assess traceability from software source code and low-level requirements to prime system-level requirements.
- Review engineering artifacts for consistency, adequacy, and suitability.
Benefits
- Health insurance coverage.
- Life insurance.
- Disability insurance.
- Savings plan.
- Company-paid holidays.
- Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.
- Employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus, depending on the position.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
