Principal/ Sr Principal Quality Analyst
About The Position
Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is hiring a Principal or Sr Principal Software Quality Analyst in Huntsville, Alabama. The successful candidate will implement software quality standards across multiple programs and ensure project and process control documentation aligns with contract requirements, program planning, and Northrop Grumman policies, processes, and procedures. The role includes reviewing software design, code, unit and integration tests, change specifications, and plans for contractual and process requirements. The position performs software process audits and evaluations, maintains quality evaluation plans, collaborates with software and systems engineering, and witnesses software qualification and system acceptance tests. It also supports risk management, root cause and corrective action activities, fielded Major End Items integration of hardware and software, and development of process evaluation reports. The role requires on-site work in Huntsville and the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret Department of Defense clearance. Travel is 10% of the time; relocation assistance is not available.
Requirements
- For the Principal level: 9 years of Aerospace and Defense industry experience in lieu of a degree with a high school diploma; alternatively, a bachelor's degree and 5 years within Quality and Mission Assurance, or a master's degree and 3 years of experience.
- For the Sr Principal level: 12 years of Aerospace and Defense industry experience in lieu of a degree with a high school diploma; alternatively, a bachelor's degree and 8 years within Quality and Mission Assurance, or a master's degree and 6 years of experience.
- Knowledge of Agile, Waterfall, and Spiral software development processes.
- Knowledge of C, C++, Java, and Python.
- Experience in process monitoring, data collection, analysis, and metric reporting.
- Experience in process and product evaluation.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret Department of Defense security clearance.
- Ability to work on-site in Huntsville, Alabama.
Nice To Haves
- Dedicated to teamwork and able to work well in a team environment.
- ISO 9001 and/or AS9100 trained auditor.
- Familiarity with AS9102 and AS6500.
- Active Department of Defense Secret security clearance.
- Experience working with military or government contracts.
Responsibilities
- Perform process audits of software development processes to assure compliance with established policies, procedures, work instructions, and program-specific plans.
- Develop, modify, apply, and maintain quality evaluation plans supporting program activities for processing software and materials into partially finished or finished products.
- 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 they follow approved procedures, requirements are verified, and test procedure and software anomalies are documented and tracked to closure.
- Participate in risk management and support identification of risks and opportunities.
- Review and report on root cause and corrective action activities, monitor corrective and preventive actions through closure, analyze defect data, monitor test problem report data, and monitor causal analysis and resolution.
- Support fielded Major End Items integration of hardware and software.
- Conduct or support internal process evaluations and develop process evaluation reports.
Benefits
- Health insurance coverage.
- Life and disability insurance.
- Savings plan.
- Company-paid holidays.
- Paid time off for vacation and/or personal business.
- Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Education Level
High school or GED
