Staff Software Quality Engineer

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time

Description

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is seeking a Staff Software Quality Engineer. This position will be located in Huntsville, Alabama.

The ideal candidate will be a high-caliber individual with an experienced background in software mission assurance, software quality, test witnessing, configuration management or audit compliance of software programs. This role will revolve around monitoring, auditing, and ensuring software product development compliance to contractual requirements, company standards of excellence, and customer satisfaction.

The individual should have a strong understanding of software development life cycles that align with the Agile methodology, experience in software compliance audits and root cause corrective actions and hold a detail-oriented approach to identify noncompliance and risks throughout the software development life cycle.

Excellent people and technical skills are required to coordinate with subcontractors, various subsystems and interact with management to conduct audits and implement corrective actions. He/she will implement software mission assurance as an integrated part of the DS Mission Assurance Organization while working with various other teams and functions to identify and resolve process and product compliance issues.

Job Responsibilities

• Review and extract quality assurance requirements from documentation
• Establish, implement, and maintain a software mission assurance plan and practices used to ensure products and tools conform to company standards of excellence
• Support tailoring and implementation of the Quality Management System (QMS) policies and procedures including performing internal compliance audits and bring non-conformances to resolution
• Interpret customer technical, software, and mission assurance requirements and ensure those requirements are integrated into program plans, specifications, and product documents
• Ensure program contract requirements are flowed down internally and to subcontractors
• Interface with software subcontractors in the verification of product design, quality, and reliability
• Ensure compliance with contract program, quality, organizational, and industry alert requirements
• Provide oversight in discrepancy review and software failure investigations as well as root cause and corrective action determinations. Analyze and interpret trends and execute improvements on key metrics
• Perform Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA) analysis and Problem-Solving activities on program-specific deficiencies
• Represent Software Mission Assurance at various program reviews and review boards that may include but are not limited to Software Review Board (SRB), Configuration Control Board (CCB), Failure Review Board (FRB), Program Management Reviews (PMR), Safety Review Board (SRB), Software Peer Reviews, Test Readiness Reviews (TRR), and Corrective Action Board (CAB)
• Ensure Software Risk Management activities are executed according to standards and procedures
• Provide Supply Chain Management support for product procurement including resolution of requirements exceptions form offers/suppliers, Subcontractor Data Requirements (SDRL) reviews, supplier audits, and inspections
• Witness software build testing, qualification, and Integration and Test
• Provide Lab support and lab verification in preparation for software testing
• Develop and deliver metrics and reports as needed

Basic Qualifications:

Staff Software Quality Engineer

• 12 years of experience with a Bachelors in a STEM field (ideally Engineering;) or 10 years of experience with a Masters; or a 8 years of experience PhD
• 5 years’ experience in a Software Mission Assurance field or 7+ years of experience in related field such as systems engineering, software development, or software co