Software Quality Assurance Engineer

The Software Quality Assurance Engineer ensures that software development life cycle processes and their outputs continuously comply with organizational policies, approved software plans, and certification requirements as per DO-178C. This role operates independently of software development activities and provides objective oversight of software process compliance and life‑cycle data integrity. The position involves a structured and systematic approach to assessing software processes, conducting reviews and audits, ensuring configuration and change control discipline, and verifying that software products and supporting life‑cycle data conform to approved plans and certification requirements.

The Software Quality Assurance Engineer also supports certification readiness by coordinating with project stakeholders and providing assurance that software activities and deliverables meet the required standards for regulatory acceptance.

• Assess and monitor software life‑cycle processes and associated outputs to ensure compliance with approved software plans, organizational standards, and certification guidelines (e.g., DO-178C).
• Perform process assurance activities including reviews, audits, and evaluations of development and verification activities to ensure adherence to defined procedures and project objectives.
• Verify that software products and supporting life‑cycle data (requirements, design, source code, verification artifacts, and reports) conform to applicable regulatory, safety, and certification requirements.
• Provide oversight of software configuration management practices, ensuring that software baselines, configuration items, and releases are properly controlled and traceable throughout the software life cycle.
• Review and monitor change control processes, ensuring that software changes are authorized, documented, and traceable to approved requirements and problem reports.
• Ensure that the project maintains the ability to reproduce or regenerate executable software and parameter data from controlled baselines.
• Support internal and external certification audits and assessments, ensuring that required evidence and records are available and properly maintained.
• Identify process gaps or compliance issues and recommend corrective actions to improve software quality and certification readiness.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field. Advanced degree preferred.
• Certifications in quality assurance, auditing, or compliance (e.g., AS9100 Internal/Lead Auditor, ISO 9001 Auditor, or equivalent) will be considered an asset.
• Minimum of 5 8 years of experience in software quality assurance, process assurance, certification compliance, or auditing within safety‑critical or regulated software environments (preferably aerospace or avionics).
• Demonstrated experience working within certification frameworks such as DO-178C and familiarity with related standards (e.g., DO-331, DO-330, ARP
  4754A, ARP
  4761).
• Experience participating in or supporting certification activities, regulatory audits, or compliance assessments for airborne or safety‑critical software systems.
• Strong knowledge of software life‑cycle processes, including requirements, design, coding, verification, configuration management, and change management as defined in DO-178C.
• Experience performing independent software process audits, life‑cycle data reviews, and compliance assessments against approved software plans and standards.
• Familiarity with software configuration management and change control systems (e.g., Git‑based repositories, change request/problem reporting systems, configuration baselining).
• Experience working with requirements management, traceability, and lifecycle management tools (e.g., Polarion, Jira, or equivalent).
• Strong analytical, documentation, and technical review skills, with the ability to evaluate compliance of software artifacts and processes.
• Effective communication and coordination skills, with the ability to work across development, verification, configuration management, and certification teams.