Manufacturing Quality Engineer

Manufacturing Quality Engineer

Warsaw, Indiana, United States

We're ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.

As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.

When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you'll collaborate on some of the world's toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.

Overview:

• Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Quality Engineering, or related technical discipline. Minimum 5+ years of experience in software quality assurance, testing, validation, or quality engineering environments.
• This position is focused on ensuring product quality through software validation, process quality, testing activities, and cross-functional collaboration across engineering and manufacturing teams.
• The role involves developing and executing test strategies, supporting quality planning activities, identifying and resolving defects, maintaining quality documentation, and contributing to risk management processes throughout product development and manufacturing life cycles.
• The engineer will collaborate closely with Software Engineering, Product Management, Manufacturing, Technical Teams, and Quality stakeholders to ensure products meet functional, performance, and quality requirements before deployment and release.
• This position requires strong analytical skills, structured problem-solving abilities, experience with quality systems and testing methodologies, and the ability to support product quality in fast-paced development environments.

Key Responsibilities:

Software Quality Assurance & Validation

• Develop and execute test plans, test cases, and test suites for software and embedded systems
• Perform functional, regression, user acceptance, and production environment testing
• Validate software functionality across multiple systems and platforms
• Support verification and validation activities throughout the product lifecycle

Defect Management & Root Cause Analysis

• Identify, document, prioritize, and track defects using tools such as Jira
• Collaborate with development teams to investigate and resolve software issues
• Support corrective action activities for recurring quality concerns
• Drive issue resolution through structured analysis and follow-up validation

Risk Assessment & Quality Planning

• Support risk assessment activities and evaluate detection and prevention controls
• Participate in development and maintenance of PFMEAs and Control Plans
• Assist in defining quality standards and quality assurance methodologies
• Support implementation of preventative quality strategies throughout product development

Cross-Functional Quality Support

• Collaborate with Engineering, Product Management, Manufacturing, and Technical teams
• Support readiness reviews and quality approvals for product releases
• Assist with validation activities, product assessments, and system evaluations
• Provide daily quality support to development and manufacturing organizations

Documentation & Process Management

• Translate system requirements into testing documentation and quality protocols
• Maintain quality documentation including test procedures, requirements documents, specifications, and validation records
• Ensure documentation accuracy and compliance with internal quality standards
• Support traceability between requirements, testing, and defect management activities

Agile & Continuous Improvement

• Support Agile development methodologies and SDLC best practices
• Evaluate post-release product performance using testing results, analytics, and customer feedback
• Identify opportunities to improve testing efficiency and product quality
• Drive continuous…