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Northrop Grumman · 5 hours ago

Principal Software Quality Engineer

Apopka, FL

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$89K/yr - $134K/yr

3+ years exp

Northrop Grumman is a leading aerospace and defense technology company, looking for a Principal Software Quality Engineer to support their Quality and Mission Assurance team. The role involves implementing software quality standards, reviewing customer and software requirements, and ensuring compliance with established policies and procedures.

AerospaceData IntegrationManufacturingRemote SensingSecurity

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Implementation of software quality standards across multiple programs

Review customer, system and software requirements to ensure the flow down of requirements is complete and unambiguous

Review software design, code and unit test, integration, change specifications, and plans for contractual and/or process requirements

Perform process audits of software development processes to assure compliance to established policies, procedures, work instructions, and program specific plans

Interpret customer technical, software, and quality requirements and ensure those requirements are integrated into program plans, specifications, and product documents

Develop, modify, apply, and maintain quality evaluation plans to assist program activities for processing software and materials into partially finished or finished products

Participate in contractual reviews and audits, program/IPT meetings, and configuration control board meetings

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 are fully verified, and that all test procedure and software anomalies are documented and tracked to closure

Peer review software documents to ensure appropriate content and adherence to standards

Support ISO9001/AS9100 audit activities and audits quality systems for non-conformance identification and corrective action

Evaluate and ensure software suppliers possess the capability and capacity necessary to execute and deliver procured software with unquestionable quality

Ensure compliance with contract program, quality, organizational, and industry alert requirements

Assists Software Engineering in collecting, analyzing, and reporting metrics

Crosstrain in hardware quality

Qualification

Software development processesCC++JavaPythonProcess monitoringAnalysisDOORsJiraConfluenceBitBucketISOAS9100 standardsAnalytical skillsInterpersonal skillsWritten communicationProblem-solving abilitiesTeam collaboration

Required

Bachelor's degree in engineering or other STEM-related field with 5 years of relevant software development integration work experience OR master's degree in engineering or other STEM-related field with 3 years of relevant software development and integration work experience

Demonstrated knowledge of software development processes including Agile, Waterfall, and Spiral Development processes

Demonstrated knowledge of C, C++, Java, Python

Demonstrated experience in process monitoring, data collection, analysis, and metric reporting

Demonstrated experience in process and product evaluation

Ability to understand and work with multiple enterprise-wide systems and software problem tracking tools such as DOORs, Jira, Confluence, and BitBucket

Experience in software build testing, qualification, and Integration and Test

Experience with ISO and AS9100 standards requirements

Ability to obtain and maintain a DOD Secret security clearance

US citizenship required

Preferred

Active Secret Clearance

Experience in a Software Engineering environment in an engineering and production capacity, work plan review, manufacturing readiness review, and root cause/corrective action analysis

Experience with software code review and open to learning different software tools

Experience in process monitoring, data collection, analysis, and metric reporting for a large program/supplier-base