Principal Software Quality Engineer

Principal Software Quality Engineer

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or other STEM-related field with 5 years of relevant software development integration work experience OR master’s degree in engineering or other STEM-related field with 3 years of relevant software development and integration work experience
• Demonstrated knowledge of software development processes including Agile, Waterfall, and Spiral Development processes
• Demonstrated knowledge of C, C++, Java, Python
• Demonstrated experience in process monitoring, data collection, analysis, and metric reporting
• Demonstrated experience in process and product evaluation
• Current Secret clearance with ability to obtain Top Secret clearance and Program Access

Responsibilities

• Perform process audits of software development processes to assure compliance to established policies, procedures, work instructions, and program specific plans.
• Develop, modify, apply, and maintain quality evaluation plans to assist program activities for processing software and materials into partially finished or finished products.
• Collaborate with Program and Engineering management on program quality planning and the establishment of program quality objectives.
• Participate in contractual reviews and audits, program/IPT meetings, and configuration control board meetings.
• 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 CMMI and AS9100 audit activities and audits quality systems for non-conformance identification and corrective action.
• 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.
• Cross-trained in the hardware quality engineer positions in the department.

Preferred Qualifications

• Active Top-Secret Clearance w/Program Access
• Experience in a Software Engineering environment in an engineering capacity, work plan review, manufacturing readiness review, and root cause/corrective action analysis.
• Familiarity with the Atlassian tool suite with add-ons like Git and Confluence.
• Certified in lean and six-sigma quality engineering methodologies.
• Ability to work independently with all levels of management to identify solutions to complex problems.
• Experience with software code review and open to learning different software tools