Lead Software Quality Engineer

Job Overview

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The Boeing Company is looking for a Lead Software Quality Engineer to join our Boeing Defense, Space, and Security (BDS) organization located in Berkeley, Missouri.

Our team of highly motivated, customer‑focused engineers partners with BDS programs to help develop and maintain a culture of first‑time quality throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC).

As a member of this team, you have the autonomy and responsibility to work with programs to assure the process for developing, controlling, and verifying software products is planned and executed, effectively improving the quality of our software products – whether developed by Boeing or provided by suppliers.

The Lead Software Quality Engineer will have a broad technical background and extensive experience in Quality Management Systems. The position requires strong leadership, analytical skills, teamwork, and excellent communication skills. The lead role is responsible for identifying resource requirements and assigning responsibility for specific work, including deadlines and performance expectations to the team. The lead role will need to develop and present compliance metrics at different levels in the organization, to other technical personnel, business leaders and customers.

This position is expected to be 100% onsite. The selected candidate will be required to work onsite at one of the listed location options.

• Initiates new organization policies, procedures, infrastructure and metrics
• Leads process improvement activities
• Plans and develops complex proposals and cost estimates
• Leads software quality reviews of large‑scale, complex supplier proposals
• Leads review and approval of software life‑cycle documents and program products
• Establishes risk assessment criteria to determine audit requirements
• Plans and leads multi‑agency audits of software engineering processes and associated support functions
• Evaluates new technologies for configuration management tools and processes and makes recommendations for implementation
• Works with senior management to establish process improvement goals
• Plans software quality test activities and completion of test readiness activities
• Ensures integrity of test process
• Verifies test results
• Leads initial reconciliation of complex, highly integrated software data products
• Participates in development of industry standards for software procurement
• Develops program specific software quality requirements for flow down to suppliers
• Plans and verifies acceptability of supplier's software quality systems and programs
• Performs software acceptance and delivery activities for high‑risk or high‑value procurements
• Analyzes organization level data to identify trends in non‑compliances and initiates organization level corrective and preventive actions
• Reviews and approves corrective and preventive action plans
• Verifies effectiveness of corrective and preventive action plans
• Reports non‑conformance and corrective action data to appropriate management
• Performs Earned Value Management (EVM) and Cost Account Management (CAM) activities
• Provides consultative direction to Software Quality Engineers

• 9+ years of experience in regulated environment Quality Management System, International Organization for Standardization (ISO 9001), Aerospace Standard (AS 9101)
• Experience in managing a software system throughout the entire life cycle
• Experience with the verification, validation, certification and qualification processes and procedures, including knowledge of governing regulations and compliance requirements

• Experience in the Military Standards industry, military and government specifications, handbooks and standards as it relates to Software Development Life Cycle
• Experience in training and mentoring early career engineers, fostering the next generation of…