Mid-level Quality Assurance Individual, CMMC Assessments; CCA;

Quality Assurance Individual, CMMC Assessments (CCA)

OCT Consulting is a business management and technology consulting firm that supports Federal Government clients. We provide consulting services in the areas of Strategy, Process Improvement, Change Management, Program and Project Management, Acquisition/Procurement, and Information Technology.

OCT currently has an opening for a Quality Assurance Individual, CMMC Assessments (CCA) to support the build-out of OCT's CMMC Certified Third-Party Assessment Organization (C3

PAO) practice. This position provides independent quality oversight of CMMC Level 2 certification assessments and must hold an active CCA certification. The role is named alongside the assessment team in the CMMC Level 2 assessment process and is subject to the same background investigation requirement.

Day to day responsibilities include:

• Provide independent quality assurance review of CMMC Level 2 certification assessments, ensuring methodology, evidence sufficiency, scoring, and determinations are consistent, complete, and defensible.
• Review assessment plans, evidence packages, working papers, and final reports prior to issuance of any Certificate of CMMC Status.
• Maintain and continuously improve the C3
  
  PAO quality management system in alignment with ISO/IEC 17020:2012 and Cyber AB requirements.
• Verify adherence to NIST SP 800-171A assessment procedures and to the Cyber AB Code of Professional Conduct, conflict-of-interest, ethics, and impartiality requirements.
• Identify nonconformities, track corrective actions, and support internal audits and management reviews.
• Ensure assessment records are complete and retained per policy, and support DIBCAC and Cyber AB oversight and surveillance activities.
• Maintain independence from the assessment teams whose work is being reviewed in order to preserve impartiality of the quality function.