Software Systems Quality Engineer (Compliance) in AZ

RTX•Tucson, AZ

2d•$62,900 - $119,700•Onsite

About The Position

Raytheon is hiring an onsite Software Systems Quality Engineer I (Compliance) to support Land & Air Defense Systems (LADS) in Tucson, Arizona. The role is within Quality & Mission Assurance and involves classified work in secure labs as well as unclassified work in dedicated workspaces. Software Quality collaborates with Software, Systems, Integration/Test, Safety, Program Quality, and Hardware Quality functions. Work is onsite every weekday, primarily at the main Tucson site at 1151 East Hermans Road, with regular collaboration at other Tucson locations. The position supports software quality and compliance by reviewing deliverables, policies, software release packages, requirements changes, defects, code reviews, media, and test artifacts. It also participates in peer reviews, control boards, metrics tracking, test witnessing, and audits. Focus areas include ensuring digital products meet contractual requirements, maintaining technical data package integrity, measuring software quality, conducting lifecycle evaluations and risk assessments, facilitating root-cause analysis and corrective actions, applying software development and quality practices, and working with customers, product development, test personnel, peers, and leadership. The role supports LADS programs including Global Patriot, Ghost-Eye/Lower Tier Air & Missile Defense, National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile, Stinger, Next Generation Short-Range Interceptor, TOW, Javelin, Excalibur, and counter-unmanned aerial systems. U.S. citizenship and an active, existing Secret clearance after the first day are required. Relocation is not offered. The listed salary range is $62,900–$119,700 USD; offers depend on factors such as role, experience, location, education, and skills.

Requirements

Typically, a bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and less than 2 years of relevant experience.
Relevant experience in Quality or Engineering.
Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government-issued security clearance; U.S. citizenship is required.
An active and existing DoD Secret clearance is required after day 1.

Nice To Haves

Experience in a Quality or technical role applying Agile practices, including Scrum teams, sprints or increments, stories or points, backlogs or burndown, and CI/CD.
Experience with testing execution and witnessing, test locations, plans, procedures, requirements traceability, and reports.
Experience with requirements verification, software and systems specifications, functionality, performance, statements of work, and contracts.
Knowledge of software lifecycle processes, requirements decomposition, code reviews, functions, features, builds, and configuration management.
Experience quantifying, prioritizing, tracking, resolving, and assessing the impact of defects.
Knowledge of software release management, including checklists, labels, versions, licenses, repositories, executables, release notes, security bulletins, training manuals, and user guides.
Experience defining, developing, monitoring, measuring, and reporting metrics using dashboards and tools such as Business Insight reports, Jira reports, or Excel tables.
Experience identifying process root causes and implementing corrective actions.
Education or training in quality, software engineering, systems engineering, Agile, cyber/IA, or project management certifications.
Experience creating PowerPoint briefings and presenting to senior management.
Knowledge of quality principles and standards such as AS9115, AS9100, or ISO 9001.
Knowledge of Quality Management Systems (QMS) or standard operating procedures (SOPs).
Experience with compliance evaluation, validation, auditing, and corrective actions.
Experience with maintenance processes, patches, upgrades, installation, backups, recovery, or synchronization.
Experience leading, coordinating, planning, prioritizing, executing, or escalating projects.
Interest in leading cross-functional initiatives and collaborating with business and technical stakeholders.
Interest in DevSecOps toolchains such as Confluence, Azure DevOps Server, Jenkins, GitHub, or Coverity.
Interest in integrated development environments, modeling, or databases and tools such as ClearCase, DOORS, RQM, Cameo, Rhapsody, Oracle, or SAP.
Interest in maintaining computer networks and working with physical or virtual networks, LANs, WANs, and cloud infrastructure.
Interest in configuring or verifying routers, switches, firewalls, or VPNs, and monitoring network performance.
Interest in networking protocols and technologies including OSI, TCP, IP, IPsec, TLS, DHCP, SNMP, FC, SCSI, DNS, IDS, or SIEM.
Interest in integration across security, systems, software, hardware, connectivity, tools, and equipment, and in technologies such as devices, applications, servers, virtual machines, networks, and storage.

Responsibilities

Review document deliverables, command media, software release packages, software requirements changes, software/system defects, code pulls and reviews, media, and test artifacts.
Participate in software and systems peer reviews and control boards, including CCB and SRB.
Track software quality metrics and maintain tracking books.
Witness software qualification and formal qualification testing (SQT and FQT).
Participate in audits.
Ensure digital products adhere to contractual requirements and review and approve inputs and outputs to and from partner organizations.
Ensure the integrity of the technical data package; identify, collect, and measure software quality attributes, metrics, and data.
Perform independent lifecycle evaluations and risk assessments.
Facilitate root-cause analysis and corrective actions.
Apply software development and quality best practices, including increasing adoption of Agile and DevSecOps methodologies.
Interact with customers, product development, and test personnel, and provide guidance to senior leadership, team members, and peers.

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 program terms.