Software Quality Engineer - Secret Clearance, 10% Travel

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

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems Sector seeks an Engineer Software Quality to join a diverse team in Rancho Bernardo, CA. You will define mission assurance program specifications and monitor quality, risk, safety, reliability, and maintainability per contract requirements.

The role collaborates with program and engineering management to set quality objectives and ensures standards across software and systems engineering. DoD clearance or the ability to obtain Secret level is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or STEM field (or Master's with 0 years).
• Ability to obtain DoD Secret clearance.
• Experience with Agile software development processes.
• Experience with C# or C++ and Python.
• Experience in data collection, analysis and metric reporting.
• Experience in software/code review and process evaluation.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate on program quality planning and quality objectives.
• Ensure quality standards with software and systems engineering teams.
• Witness software qualification and system acceptance tests and document issues.
• Support AS9100D audits and non-conformance actions.
• Perform internal process evaluations and identify improvement opportunities.
• Assess supplier capability and ensure quality of procured software.
• Ensure documentation meets requirements and quality metrics are tracked.
• Assist in collecting and reporting software metrics.
• Review traceability from code to requirements.

Skills

Agile processes

C# or C++

Python

Data analysis

Metrics reporting

Learning new tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or STEM

Master's in STEM (0 years experience)

Tools

IBM DOORS

Jira

Confluence

Bitbucket

Job description

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems Sector seeks an Engineer Software Quality to join a diverse team in Rancho Bernardo, CA. You will define mission assurance program specifications and monitor quality, risk, safety, reliability, and maintainability per contract requirements.

The role collaborates with program and engineering management to set quality objectives and ensures standards across software and systems engineering. DoD clearance or the ability to obtain Secret level is required.