Principal Software Systems Quality Engineer Marlborough, MA
About The Position
RTX’s Software Quality Engineering department is seeking an onsite Principal Software Systems Quality Engineer to support Land & Air Defense Systems (LADS) programs in Marlborough, Massachusetts. LADS programs include Global Patriot, Ghost-Eye / Lower Tier Air & Missile Defense, National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile, Multi-Function Radio Frequency Sensor, Enduring Indirect Fire Protection Capability, Stinger, Next Generation Short-Range Interceptor, TOW, Javelin, Excalibur, and Counter Unmanned Aerial systems. Within Quality & Mission Assurance, the Software Quality Engineering department performs classified work in secure labs and unclassified work in dedicated workspaces. The role collaborates with Software, Systems, Integration/Test, Safety, Program Quality Leads, and Hardware Quality. Daily activities are based at the Marlborough site, with semi-monthly collaboration visits to Tewksbury, monthly test witnessing in Andover, and annual test witnessing in Pelham, New Hampshire. The engineer reviews document deliverables, command media, software release packages, software requirements changes, software and system defects, code reviews, media, and test artifacts. The role also participates in peer reviews, control boards, metrics tracking, test witnessing, and audits. It supports compliance with contractual requirements, independent evaluations and risk assessments, root cause analysis and corrective actions, integrity of technical data packages, software quality measurement, and collaboration with customers, product development, test personnel, leadership, and peers. The team uses software development and quality practices and is increasingly adopting Agile and DevSecOps methodologies. The position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance; U.S. citizenship is required. An active and existing DoD Secret clearance is required after day one. The position is onsite, and relocation assistance is unavailable.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM).
- Eight years of relevant quality or engineering experience, including eight years in a Quality or Technical role applying advanced principles across at least eight of the listed areas: compliance evaluation; requirements verification; release management; test witnessing; software processes; defect management; records management; integration knowledge; maintenance processes; or technology knowledge.
- Proven experience leading, coordinating, planning, prioritizing, executing, and escalating projects.
- Familiarity with Quality Management Systems (QMS) and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
- Familiarity with identifying root causes of process issues and implementing corrective actions.
- Familiarity with defining, developing, monitoring, measuring, reporting, and creating dashboards for metrics.
- Familiarity with Scrum teams, sprints or increments, stories or points, backlogs or burndown, and continuous integration/delivery (CI/CD).
- Ability to create and present senior-management briefings using PowerPoint.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance; U.S. citizenship is required.
- An active and existing DoD Secret clearance is required after day one.
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with quality principles and standards such as AS9115, AS9100, and ISO 9001.
- Experience leading key initiatives with cross-functional teams and collaborating with business and technical stakeholders.
- Familiarity with integrated development environment applications, modeling, or databases such as ClearCase, DOORS, RQM, Cameo, Rhapsody, Oracle, or SAP.
- Familiarity with DevSecOps toolchains such as Jira, Confluence, ADS, Jenkins, GitHub, or Coverity.
- Active certification in Quality, Software or Systems Engineering, Agile, Cyber / IA, or Project Management.
- Advanced degree.
Responsibilities
- Review document deliverables, command media, software release packages, software requirements changes, software and system defects, code reviews, media, and test artifacts.
- Participate in software and systems peer reviews and control boards, including CCB and SRB.
- Track and report quality metrics.
- Witness software qualification and functional qualification testing, and participate in audits.
- Ensure digital products comply with contractual requirements and review and approve inputs and outputs to and from partner organizations.
- Perform independent lifecycle evaluations and risk assessments; facilitate root cause analysis and corrective actions.
- Ensure the integrity of technical data packages and identify, collect, and measure software quality attributes, metrics, and data.
- Interact with customers, product development, and test personnel; provide guidance to senior leadership, team members, and peers.
- Lead, coordinate, plan, prioritize, execute, and escalate project activities.
- Define, develop, monitor, measure, report, and present metrics and dashboards.
- Create and present briefings to senior management.
- Apply software quality and development best practices and support adoption of Agile and DevSecOps methodologies.
- Collaborate with Software, Systems, Integration/Test, Safety, Program Quality Leads, and Hardware Quality.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Short-term disability
- Long-term disability
- 401(k) match
- Flexible spending accounts
- Flexible work schedules
- Employee assistance program
- Employee Scholar Program
- Parental leave
- Paid time off
- Holidays
- Potential annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation, subject to eligibility and applicable factors
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
