Secret-Cleared Software Quality Engineer | Agile QA

Northrop Grumman; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 81,000 - 122,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life and disability insurance

Savings plan

Paid holidays

PTO

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems Sector seeks an Engineer Software Quality in Rancho Bernardo, CA. The role defines and monitors mission assurance processes, ensures quality, risk, safety, and maintainability across program milestones, subcontractors, and suppliers.

The candidate will collaborate with engineering teams to establish objectives, verify test procedures, and track anomalies to closure, while supporting audits and metrics reporting. A DoD Secret clearance is preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or STEM field plus relevant software development integration experience OR a Master’s in STEM with 0 years of experience.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Program and Engineering management on program quality planning and the establishment of program quality objectives.
• Collaborate with software engineering and systems engineering functions to ensure quality standards are in place and followed.
• Witness execution of software qualification and system acceptance tests to ensure tests are executed in accordance with approved test procedures, requirements verified, and anomalies documented to closure.
• Support AS9100D audit activities and audit quality systems for non-conformance and corrective action.
• Perform internal Process Evaluation audits against company standards to identify deficiencies and opportunities for improvement.
• Evaluate and ensure software suppliers have the capability to deliver quality software.
• Ensure corrective measures meet quality standards and documentation is compliant with requirements.
• Assist Software Engineering in collecting and reporting metrics.
• Assess traceability from software source code to requirements.
• Review quality of engineering artifacts for consistency and adequacy.

Skills

Agile software development

C#/C++

Python

Metrics reporting

Software code review

Learning new tools

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or STEM

Master’s degree in STEM

Tools

IBM DOORS

Jira

Confluence

Bitbucket

Job description

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems Sector seeks an Engineer Software Quality in Rancho Bernardo, CA. The role defines and monitors mission assurance processes, ensures quality, risk, safety, and maintainability across program milestones, subcontractors, and suppliers.

The candidate will collaborate with engineering teams to establish objectives, verify test procedures, and track anomalies to closure, while supporting audits and metrics reporting. A DoD Secret clearance is preferred.