Requirements Traceability & Quality Assurance Analyst (N27001)

SimIS Inc; Norfolk (VA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401(k) Savings Plan

Paid Time Off

Holidays

Tuition Assistance

Professional Development

Disability Insurance

Job summary

SimIS Inc. seeks a Requirements Traceability & Quality Assurance Analyst to conduct independent process assurance and ensure data quality across capability life cycle management.

The role focuses on identifying gaps, risks, and ambiguities early in development, and supporting automation through documenting business requirements for approved changes. The ideal candidate will bring extensive experience in requirements engineering, quality assurance, and change management, with familiarity in ISO

Qualifications

• Ten (10) years of experience in requirements engineering or requirements management, including elicitation, capture, development, analysis and evaluation of requirements.
• Experience in evaluating requirements traceability across DOTMLPFI lines of development.
• 5-10 years in managing requirements per formal configuration and change management processes.
• 5-10 years in processes formally certified to ISO 9001.

Responsibilities

• Provide quality analysis and expertise in support of processes and outputs for capability requirements.
• Manage CAPA actions identified during process assurance and quality reviews.
• Support data quality assurance including maintenance of requirements in repositories and program tools.
• Produce quality assurance reports for program directors and stakeholders.
• Contribute to development of directives and SOPs related to quality and traceability.
• Support requirements engineering across life cycle stages to ensure integrity of traceability.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, management, information systems, accounting, economics, finance, business administration, public administration, operations research, programme and project management

Tools

IBM Rational DOORS Next

Job description

Position is 100% Onsite

SimIS is currently recruiting for the listed position and is contingent upon award.

Who We Are:

Founded in 2007, SimIS Inc. is an innovative information technology solution Veteran Owned Small Business (VOSB) that models future environments, requirements, and capabilities, and then secures the enterprise from internal and external threats compliant with Federal, State, and industry standard governance to ensure client mission success. Our performance standard is “excellence,” with an outcomes-based, quality focus in our services and products, guided by our core values of honesty (in word and deed), relationships (confidence and trust with clients and partners), teamwork (shared goals, mission, and purpose), loyalty (allegiance to our client and team), and importance of others (work and win as a team).

Job Description:

SimIS is seeking contract support for the capture, development, architecture, analysis, and quality assurance of capability requirements necessary to adapt to future threats and shape long-term military strategy. To support our customer, SimIS, Inc. seeks a Requirements Traceability & Quality Assurance Analyst to conduct independent process assurance reviews for compliance with process and standards to identify gaps, risks, ambiguities, and potential delivery issues early in the development lifecycle. The QA analyst will independently assure data quality and traceability of capability life cycle management information and facilitate automation and digitization by identifying and documenting business requirements and supporting the implementation of approved change.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, management, information systems, accounting, economics, finance, business administration, public administration, operations research, programme and project management.
• Ten (10) years of experience in requirements engineering or requirements management to include elicitation, capture, development, analysis and evaluation of requirements, including the management of requirements traceability, quality and change management.
• Experience in the evaluation of requirements traceability across comprehensive lines of development; i.e. doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership, personnel, facilities, and interoperability (DOTMLPFI).
• 5-10 years of experience in managing requirements in accordance with formal configuration and change management processes.
• 5-10 years of experience working in support of processes that are formally certified in accordance with the ISO 9001 standard.
• Experience with IBM Rational DOORS Next or equivalent.

Responsibilities:

• Provide quality analysis and expertise in support of processes and outputs, and specifically in support of Common Funded Capability Delivery programmes, programme directors and requirements managers undertaking the Identification, elicitation, capture, analysis, evaluation, integration and maintenance of high-quality capability (business) requirements.
• Manage corrective and preventative actions (CAPA) identified during process assurance and quality reviews: facilitate adjudication of recommendations, work closely with stakeholders to ensure timely resolution and maintain alignment between CAPA and program risk management and lessons learned processes.
• Support data quality assurance including maintenance of requirements in the requirements repository and program information in the program management tools ensuring correct version and configuration control, and the achievement and maintenance of the organization’s traceability and quality expectations.
• Support the development and maintenance of processes relating to requirements traceability, including traceability criteria, and requirements traceability quality reports related to the capability development and requirements management life cycle.
• Produce scheduled and ad-hoc independent quality assurance reports to inform program directors, IPT, core team members and other stakeholders including leadership.
• Contribute to the development of directives and standard operating procedures that relate to quality, requirements traceability and the Requirements Repository.
• Support requirements engineering and requirements management activities where appropriate across all life cycle stages to ensure continuing integrity of the traceability processes, and that capability requirements continue to satisfy stakeholder needs.

Benefits:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision
• Short-Term Disability (at no cost to you) & Long-Term Disability
• Life Insurance
• 401(k) Savings Plan
• Flex Spending Accounts
• Tuition Assistance Program
• Professional Development
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• 11 Federal Holidays each year

SimIS, Inc. is an EOE / M / F / Disability / VET / Drug Free Employer