Requirements Traceability & Quality Assurance Analyst (N2701)

SimIS Inc; Norfolk (VA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision

401(k) Savings Plan

Tuition Assistance Program

Professional Development

Paid Time Off

11 Federal Holidays

Job summary

SimIS, Inc. seeks a Requirements Traceability & Quality Assurance Analyst to conduct independent process assurance reviews and ensure data quality and traceability across capability lifecycles.

The role supports identification, elicitation, and maintenance of high-quality requirements while identifying gaps and risks early in development. The analyst will manage CAPAs, maintain configuration control in repository tools, and help document directives and SOPs for quality and traceability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required with relevant field.
• 10 years of experience in requirements management and traceability.
• Experience with ISO 9001 and DOTMLPFI is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Provide quality analysis and assurance for capability requirements and lifecycle data.
• Manage CAPAs and coordinate with stakeholders to resolve delivery issues.
• Support data quality, version control, and traceability in program tools.
• Develop and maintain processes for requirements traceability and reports.
• Produce independent QA reports for leadership and teams.
• Contribute to directives and SOPs related to quality and traceability.
• Support requirements engineering across lifecycle stages to ensure stakeholder needs.

Skills

Requirements engineering

Quality assurance

Documentation & 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