Engineer Software Quality

About the Role

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems Sector is seeking an Engineer Software Quality. The successful candidate will define and monitor mission assurance program specifications and processes to ensure mission success. Performs quality, risk management, safety, reliability and maintainability of program achievements, subcontractors, and suppliers in accordance with contractual requirements. Assesses program performance and risks and determines resources to ensure mission assurance.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Program and Engineering management on program quality planning and the establishment of program quality objectives.
• Collaborate with software engineering and systems engineering functions to ensure quality standards are in place and followed.
• Witness execution of software qualification and system acceptance tests to ensure tests are executed in accordance with approved test procedures, requirements are fully verified, and that all test procedure and software anomalies are documented and tracked to closure.
• Support AS9100D audit activities and audits quality systems for non-conformance identification and corrective action.
• Perform internal Process Evaluation audits against company standards and processes to identify deficiencies and opportunities for improvement.
• Evaluate and ensure software suppliers possess the capability and capacity necessary to execute and deliver procured software with unquestionable quality.
• Ensures that corrective measures meet acceptable quality standards, and that documentation is compliant with requirements.
• Assists Software Engineering in collecting and reporting metrics.
• Assess Traceability from software source code, low-level to prime system level requirements.
• Review quality of engineering artifacts for consistency, adequacy, and suitability.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or other STEM-related field and 2 years of relevant software development integration work experience or a Masters in STEM with 0 years of relevant software development integration work experience.
• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain DoD Clearance at the Secret level.
• 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.
• Demonstrated aptitude for learning new software tools.

Qualifications (Preferred)

• Active Secret Clearance.
• Experience with IBM DOORS.
• Experience with requirement traceability.
• Experience in a Software Engineering environment in an engineering capacity, work plan review, and root cause/corrective action analysis.
• Experience using Atlassian tool suite and tools like 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 via a formalized Root Cause/Corrective Action process.

Additional Details

• Relocation assistance may be available.
• Clearance required for start: Yes.
• Clearance type: Secret.
• Travel: Yes, 10% of the Time.