Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities

Peraton is currently seeking to hire a Sr. QA Engineer for the Corporate Quality organization. This position is remote and the selected candidate will report to the Corporate Senior Director of Quality.

 

The successful candidate must possess a complete and thorough understanding of Program Management and Quality as well as proven leadership, managerial, and communication skills across all levels of the company. The successful candidate must have a superior ability to establish and nurture an excellent working relationship with all Customers both internal and external and be able to quickly and sufficiently understand the technical domain encompassed within Peraton. In the role of Sr QA Process Analyst, the successful candidate will:

• Perform process and product evaluations (audits) to ensure compliance with company and project established policies, processes, procedures and applicable standards and models (ISO, AS, CMMI-DEV, CMMI-SVC).
• Perform a variety of technical and administrative activities related to the function of Quality, including, but not limited to, auditing, scheduling, checklist development, report writing, facilitating root cause analysis/corrective action and lessons learned, internal/external presentations, and development, collection, and analysis of metrics.
• Work with programs to ensure adherence to credential requirements and provide/implement recommendations for improvement, best practices, and organizational processes.
• Work with the Growth organization to ensure Quality is appropriately included in all proposals.
• Support implementation, maintenance, and continual improvement of Peraton’s Corporate quality policies, processes and procedures ensuring the total integration of quality requirements throughout all phases of planning, design, development, procurement, test, delivery and post-delivery support.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required with 12-15 years experience in Program Management, Systems Engineering or Mission/Quality Assurance.
• Additional work experience may be substituted in lieu of degree. 
• Strong working knowledge in some or all of the following standards ISO 20000, ISO 27001, ISO 9001:2015, AS9100, CMMI-DEV Level 3 or above, CMMI-SVC Level 3 or above.
• Experience in Quality assurance and quality controls, and Continual Improvement methodologies, processes and tools.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills (both written and oral), strong organizational skills and a positive temperament are crucial.
• Ability to collaborate across all levels of the organization and communicate complex information in various formats to a variety of stakeholders.
• Competent and confident when briefing upper management and elevating issues to appropriate levels.
• Proficiency with the MS Office Professional suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access).
• Must be a U.S. Citizen and able to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret Clearance.

 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt Certification
• Experience with statistical methods and tools (e.g., Minitab)
• Experience in Risk and Opportunity Management
• Working Agile experience
• Proposal experience

Peraton Overview

Peraton drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted and highly differentiated national security solutions and technologies that keep people safe and secure. Peraton serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies across the intelligence, space, cyber, defense, civilian, health, and state and local markets. Every day, our employees do the can’t be done, solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers.

Target Salary Range

$146,000 - $234,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.