QNX Senior Quality Manager

QNX; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 96,000 - 126,000; Full time

Job summary

QNX seeks a Senior Quality Manager to guide the quality, safety, and cybersecurity processes behind QNX software products. You will collaborate with engineering, product management, and safety teams to ensure compliance with global standards and drive improvement of the QMS and CSMS.

In this role, you will lead audits, support certification readiness, and help evolve quality methodologies, while crossing functional boundaries to align quality objectives with technical and business goals.

Qualifications

• Experience in software process and quality management within embedded software environments.
• Hands-on experience implementing ISO 9001 and ISO 26262, ISO/SAE 21434, IEC 61508, IEC 62304, ASPICE.
• Understanding of software lifecycles, configuration management, requirements management.
• Experience auditing and certification activities.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, attention to detail, and influencing skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead quality systems and compliance initiatives across engineering and product teams.
• Plan, execute, and document quality audits, gap analyses, compliance reviews, and process reviews assessments.
• Support certification readiness initiatives across safety, cybersecurity, and quality domains.
• Maintain compliance evidence packages and audit documentation required for internal and external assessments.
• Ensure end-to-end traceability from requirements through design, implementation, verification, validation, and release activities.

Skills

Quality management

Embedded software

Software quality assurance

Regulatory standards

Auditing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Quality Management, or related technical discipline

Tools

JAMA

Jira

GitHub

Confluence

Job description

Job Description

QNX enhances the human experience and amplifies technology-driven industries, providing a trusted foundation for software-defined businesses to thrive. The business leads the way in delivering safe and secure operating systems, hypervisors, middleware, solutions, and development tools, along with support and services delivered by trusted embedded software experts. With a focus on reducing hardware dependency and increasing efficiency, QNX empowers organizations to unlock new possibilities in areas like high-performance computing at the edge, standards-based virtualization technologies, and cloud enablement. QNX® technology has been deployed in the world’s most critical embedded systems, including more than 275 million vehicles on the road today. QNX® software is trusted across industries including automotive, medical devices, industrial controls, robotics, commercial vehicles, rail, and aerospace and defense.

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Job Description

QNX enhances the human experience and amplifies technology-driven industries, providing a trusted foundation for software-defined businesses to thrive. The business leads the way in delivering safe and secure operating systems, hypervisors, middleware, solutions, and development tools, along with support and services delivered by trusted embedded software experts. With a focus on reducing hardware dependency and increasing efficiency, QNX empowers organizations to unlock new possibilities in areas like high-performance computing at the edge, standards-based virtualization technologies, and cloud enablement. QNX® technology has been deployed in the world’s most critical embedded systems, including more than 275 million vehicles on the road today. QNX® software is trusted across industries including automotive, medical devices, industrial controls, robotics, commercial vehicles, rail, and aerospace and defense.

Are you the person we're looking for?

We're looking for a Senior Quality Manager to play a pivotal role in auditing, maintaining, and advancing the quality, safety, and cybersecurity processes behind QNX software products. In this highly visible role, you'll partner with engineering, product management, and safety and cybersecurity teams to ensure compliance with global standards, drive continuous improvement initiatives, and help shape the future of our integrated Quality Management System (QMS) and Cybersecurity Management System (CSMS). If you're passionate about software processes and quality, enjoy navigating complex regulatory landscapes, and thrive in environments where precision and innovation intersect, we'd love to hear from you.

What You'll Do

Quality Systems & Compliance Leadership

• Partner on the continual improvement of the QNX QMS and CSMS toward meeting quality objectives and maintaining certification to ISO 9001 and ISO/SAE 21434..
• Drive continuous improvement quality initiatives and champion a quality and safety culture across engineering and product development teams..
• Contribute to the evolution and enhancement of QNX quality processes, templates, methodologies, and compliance frameworks..
• Apply expertise across multiple industry standards including ISO 9001, ISO 26262, ISO/SAE 21434, IEC 61508, IEC 62304, and ASPICE to support certification readiness and regulatory compliance..
• Identify compliance gaps, assess risks, and drive corrective and preventive actions..
• Ensure process consistency, traceability, and evidence generation throughout the product lifecycle..
• Stay current with emerging standards, regulations, and industry best practices affecting safety-critical and cybersecurity-focused software development. .

Audit & Certification Activities

• Plan, execute, and document quality audits, gap analyses, compliance reviews, and process reviews assessments..
• Support certification readiness initiatives across safety, cybersecurity, and quality domains..
• Maintain compliance evidence packages and audit documentation required for internal and external assessments..
• Support interactions with certification bodies, regulatory organizations, customers, and external auditors..
• Ensure end-to-end traceability from requirements through design, implementation, verification, validation, and release activities. .

Technical Leadership & Collaboration

• Serve as a trusted advisor to engineering teams on standards interpretation, audit readiness, process compliance, and certification requirements..
• Build strong cross-functional relationships that align quality objectives with technical and business goals..
• Participate in customer-facing audits including questionnaire responses, supplier engagements, and quality reviews..
• Contribute to quality strategy discussions, process governance, and product lifecycle initiatives across the organization. .

What You'll Have

• Proven experience in software process and quality management within embedded software environments, ideally in safety-critical industries such as automotive, industrial automation, medical devices, aerospace, defense, or rail..
• Hands-on experience implementing and maintaining compliance with ISO 9001 and one or more of the following: ISO 26262, ISO/SAE 21434, IEC 61508, IEC 62304, ASPICE, SEI-CMMI, DO-178C..
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycles, configuration management, requirements management, traceability, and process quality assurance methodologies..
• Experience conducting internal and external audits and supporting certification activities..
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, attention to detail, and influencing skills..
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Quality Management, Quality Systems Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related technical discipline .

If you have any of these then that would be great

• Previous software engineering experience spanning requirements, design, development, testing, or systems engineering..
• Experience with process modeling, quality measurement, and traceability management in a functional safety environment..
• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt or Green Belt certification and/or root cause analysis (RCA), 5D, 8D..
• Hands-on experience with tools such as JAMA, Jira, GitHub, and Confluence..
• ISO 9001 Lead Auditor certification..
• ASPICE Process Expert or Provisional/Competent Assessor certification..
• TÜV Functional Safety Engineer certification..
• Experience supporting cybersecurity management systems and compliance programs.

Why QNX?

• Industry Leader: Be part of a company powering the next generation of critical embedded systems..
• Impactful Work: Lead high-impact continuous improvement quality initiatives that influence growth and market positioning..
• Innovation & Growth: Join a team that thrives on innovation and drives cutting-edge solutions..
• Happy and Collaborative Culture: Work with talented and passionate professionals across diverse functions..
• Solutions Impact: Your work will shape offerings that define the future of industry and intelligent systems..

Join us and help ensure the software the world depends on never lets it down!

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Compensation Hiring Base Salary Range

$96,000.00 - $126,000.00 Please be advised that the compensation hiring range indicated herein is provided solely as a good-faith estimate of expected base compensation for the position. The actual compensation offered will be determined at the time of hire and is contingent upon multiple factors, including but not limited to the candidate’s qualifications, relevant experience, demonstrated skills, and results of assessments conducted during the hiring process.

Bonus

The BlackBerry Variable Incentive Pay (VIP) program is an organization-wide bonus incentive program which aims to reward full-time eligible employees for their contribution to BlackBerry’s success. VIP payments are made in addition to base salary and factor in company’s performance as a way for employees to share in BlackBerry’s achievements.

Benefits

The BlackBerry Employee Benefits programs offer a wide range of benefits that support your physical, financial and personal well-being. BlackBerry remains committed to offering affordable benefits including coverage for medical, dental, vision, life, disability insurance, retirement, employee share purchase program and paid-time-off to those that meet the eligibility requirements.

Disclosure of Position Status

This is an active opening. We are seeking to fill this position immediately

Disclosure of Artificial Intelligence

We do not use artificial intelligence (AI) to screen, assess, or select applicants at any stage of our recruitment process. All applications are reviewed and evaluated by our hiring team.