Principal Engineer Software Quality

Description

The team in Woodland Hills, CA is hiring a Principal Engineer for software quality within the company's Mission Systems group.

The company builds systems that affect people's lives, and this role helps make sure the software behind them meets its quality standards.

Responsibilities

• Set up and maintain standards, methods, processes, systems and procedures for software quality.
• Plan and carry out software inspection, testing, verification and validation, and help build software development and maintenance processes.
• Check that measures meet acceptable reliability standards.
• Define the overall operating criteria so the software quality program follows project, process and contract requirements and goals.
• Confirm that project and process control documents comply with requirements, objectives and contract terms.
• Review software designs, change specifications and plans against contract and process requirements, including specifications, materials, tools, techniques and methodologies.
• Perform or lead checks that software requirements are allocated, traceable and testable.

Requirements

• Work with software and systems engineering teams to set quality standards and make sure they are followed, and work closely with developers, DevOps and systems engineers.
• Communicate clearly in writing and in speech.
• Hold a bachelor's degree in computer engineering, computer science or a STEM field with 5 years of experience, or a master's degree with 3 years of experience.
• Apply software engineering principles, practices and theories.
• Use problem tracking tools such as DOORS, Jira and Confluence.
• Set priorities and meet deadlines.
• Make sure corrective actions meet quality standards and that documentation complies with requirements.
• Implement Software Quality Assurance plans.
• Verify software qualification and system acceptance tests: tests must run per approved procedures, requirements must be fully verified, and all test procedure and software anomalies must be logged and tracked to closure.
• US citizenship required.
• You must be able to obtain and keep a Secret clearance.
• Preferred: Familiarity with waterfall, spiral or Agile life cycles.
• Preferred: Experience creating and using metrics to track process health or performance.
• Preferred: Experience with program and engineering management, including quality planning and quality objectives.
• Preferred: Experience auditing software development processes against policies, procedures, work instructions and program plans.
• Preferred: Experience acting as a liaison between local staff, suppliers and or customers.
• Preferred: Experience evaluating, tracing and analyzing requirements.
• Preferred: Experience with audits, program or IPT meetings and configuration control board meetings.
• Preferred: Experience with CMMI and AS9100 audits, including auditing quality systems to find and correct nonconformances.
• Preferred: Experience evaluating software suppliers to confirm they deliver procured software.
• Preferred: Experience helping software engineering collect and report metrics.
• Preferred: Experience writing test plans and test cases that trace back to requirements and design.
• Preferred: Experience with code reviews, test automation and continuous improvement of development and integration practices.
• Preferred: Experience supporting scrum or sprint teams.
• Preferred: Experience keeping software compliant with industry guidelines and contract requirements, such as DO-178.
• Preferred: Experience applying and maintaining quality evaluation plans for software and materials processed into partly or fully finished products.

Conditions

The role is based in Woodland Hills, CA.

Travel is about 10% of the time.

No relocation assistance is offered.

A Secret clearance is not required to start.

Posting codes: MPR and QMACMP.

The primary level base salary range is $103,600.00 - $155,400.00. This is a general guideline, and final offers depend on scope, responsibilities, experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

The application period is estimated at 20 days from the posting date, but it may be shortened or extended based on business needs and candidate availability.

Benefits

• Depending on the position, overtime, shift differential and a discretionary bonus may be available in addition to base pay.
• Annual bonuses reward individual contributions and let employees share in company results.
• Vice President and Director roles may be eligible for Long Term Incentives.
• Benefits include health insurance, life and disability insurance, a savings plan, paid company holidays, and paid time off for vacation and personal business.