Manufacturing Quality Engineer
About The Position
We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more. As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing. When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow. This position is focused on ensuring product quality through software validation, process quality, testing activities, and cross-functional collaboration across engineering and manufacturing teams. The role involves developing and executing test strategies, supporting quality planning activities, identifying and resolving defects, maintaining quality documentation, and contributing to risk management processes throughout product development and manufacturing lifecycles. The engineer will collaborate closely with Software Engineering, Product Management, Manufacturing, Technical Teams, and Quality stakeholders to ensure products meet functional, performance, and quality requirements before deployment and release. This position requires strong analytical skills, structured problem-solving abilities, experience with quality systems and testing methodologies, and the ability to support product quality in fast-paced development environments.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Quality Engineering, or related technical discipline.
- Minimum 5+ years of experience in software quality assurance, testing, validation, or quality engineering environments.
- 5+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance, Testing, or Quality Engineering
- Experience developing and executing test plans and test cases
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- Experience with defect tracking and quality management tools such as Jira
- Experience performing functional, regression, and user acceptance testing
- Strong documentation and traceability skills
- Experience working cross-functionally with engineering and business teams
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting embedded systems validation
- Experience with manufacturing quality processes
- PFMEA and Control Plan experience
- ISTQB Certification
- PRINCE2 Foundation or Practitioner Certification
- Experience with YouTrack or other test management systems
- Experience supporting product launch activities
- Experience working in automotive or highly regulated industries
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute test plans, test cases, and test suites for software and embedded systems
- Perform functional, regression, user acceptance, and production environment testing
- Validate software functionality across multiple systems and platforms
- Support verification and validation activities throughout the product lifecycle
- Identify, document, prioritize, and track defects using tools such as Jira
- Collaborate with development teams to investigate and resolve software issues
- Support corrective action activities for recurring quality concerns
- Drive issue resolution through structured analysis and follow-up validation
- Support risk assessment activities and evaluate detection and prevention controls
- Participate in development and maintenance of PFMEAs and Control Plans
- Assist in defining quality standards and quality assurance methodologies
- Support implementation of preventative quality strategies throughout product development
- Collaborate with Engineering, Product Management, Manufacturing, and Technical teams
- Support readiness reviews and quality approvals for product releases
- Assist with validation activities, product assessments, and system evaluations
- Provide daily quality support to development and manufacturing organizations
- Translate system requirements into testing documentation and quality protocols
- Maintain quality documentation including test procedures, requirements documents, specifications, and validation records
- Ensure documentation accuracy and compliance with internal quality standards
- Support traceability between requirements, testing, and defect management activities
- Support Agile development methodologies and SDLC best practices
- Evaluate post-release product performance using testing results, analytics, and customer feedback
- Identify opportunities to improve testing efficiency and product quality
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives within quality assurance processes
- Support onboarding and training of new team members
- Share testing best practices, quality standards, and process improvements
- Promote a quality-focused culture across project teams
Benefits
- mentorship
- career growth opportunities
- comprehensive benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
