Principal Software Quality Engineer — Systems & Compliance

Northrop Grumman; United States; On-site; USD 104,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life and disability insurance

Savings plan

Paid holidays

PTO

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is seeking a Principal Engineer Software Quality to join our team in Woodland Hills, CA. The role focuses on developing and maintaining software quality standards, performing inspections, testing, and ensuring traceability from requirements to tests.

The ideal candidate has a STEM degree with experience in software QA, familiarity with DOORs, Jira, and Confluence, and a track record of collaborating with software and systems engineering teams. U.S.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in a Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or STEM field with 5 years of experience.
• Experience with software engineering principles, practices, and theories.
• Experience with software problem tracking tools such as DOORs, Jira, Confluence.

Responsibilities

• Develops, modifies, applies, and maintains standards for software quality operating methods, processes, systems and procedures.
• Conducts software inspection, testing, verification and validation.
• Implements software development and maintenance processes and methods.
• Ensures measures meet acceptable reliability standards.
• Develops overall operating criteria to ensure implementation of the software quality program according to project, process and contract requirements and objectives.
• Ensures that project and process control documentation are compliant with requirements, objectives and/or contract.
• Reviews software design, change specifications, and plans against contractual and/or process requirements.
• Reviews include applicable specifications, materials, tools, techniques, and methodologies.
• Performs or directs verification of software requirement allocations, traceability, and testability.

Skills

Software quality assurance

Software testing

Written and verbal communication

Collaboration with software/systems

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering/Computer Science or STEM field

Master's Degree with 3 years experience

Tools

DOORs

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is seeking a Principal Engineer Software Quality to join our team in Woodland Hills, CA. The role focuses on developing and maintaining software quality standards, performing inspections, testing, and ensuring traceability from requirements to tests.

The ideal candidate has a STEM degree with experience in software QA, familiarity with DOORs, Jira, and Confluence, and a track record of collaborating with software and systems engineering teams. U.S.