Software Quality Engineer​/Principal Software Quality Engineer

Overview

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE:
Top Secret

TRAVEL:
Yes, 10% of the Time

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems sector is seeking a Software Quality Engineer/ Principal Software Quality Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals located in Rancho Bernardo, CA
. Telecommute/remote is not an option for this position. This position’s standard work schedule is a 9/80 work week
, to allow employees every other Friday off.

The successful candidate will implement software quality standards across multiple programs. Will ensure that project and process control documentation is in accordance with contract requirements, program planning, and NG policies, processes, and procedures. Will review software design, code and unit test, integration, change specifications, and plans for contractual and/or process requirements.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• 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.

This will be filled by the Software Quality Engineer or Principal Software Quality Engineer

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or other STEM-related field with 2 years of relevant software development integration work experience OR master’s degree in engineering or other STEM-related field with 0 years of relevant software development and integration work experience.

• Demonstrated knowledge of Agile software development process

• Demonstrated knowledge of C, C++, Java, Python

• Demonstrated experience in the collection of software data and metrics for reporting.

• Demonstrated experience in process and product evaluation.

• Current Top-Secret clearance with ability to obtain Program Access.

• 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 Top-Secret clearance with ability to obtain Program Access.

• 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…