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Palmdale, California, United States · On-site
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San Diego, California, United States · On-site
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Palmdale, California, United States · On-site
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San Diego, California, United States · On-site
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Palmdale, California, United States · On-site
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San Diego, California, United States · On-site
$114k–$213k/yr
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San Diego, California, United States · On-site
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San Diego, California, United States · On-site
$193k–$290k/yr
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret TRAVEL: Yes, 25% of the TimeDescription At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities …
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Palmdale, California, United States • On-site
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Implement software quality standards and perform audits to ensure compliance with policies and contractual requirements. Collaborate with engineering teams to monitor processes, witness qualification tests, and manage corrective actions.
Requires a STEM degree with 2-5+ years of experience and an active Top Secret clearance. Proficiency in C, C++, Java, Python, and knowledge of Agile development processes are essential.
Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems sector is seeking a Software Quality Engineer/ Principal Software Quality Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals located in Rancho Bernardo or Palmdale, CA.
Telecommute/remote is not an option for this position. This position’s standard work schedule is a 9/80 bi-weekly work week for Rancho Bernardo, or a 4/10 work week for Palmdale, with an occasional expectation for limited off-Friday support.
The successful candidate will implement software quality standards across multiple programs. They will ensure that project and process control documentation is in accordance with contract requirement, program planning, and NG policies, processes, and procedures. They will review software design, code, unit test, integration, change specifications, and plans for contractual and/or process requirements. There will be limited opportunities to develop for internal software tools in support of the Software Quality team’s statement of work.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Perform audits of software development processes to assure compliance in established policies, procedures, work instructions, and program specific plans
Develop, modify, apply, and maintain quality evaluation plans to assist program activities for processing software and materials into partially finished or finished products
Collaborate with program and engineering management on program quality planning and the establishment of program quality objectives
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
Support CMMI and 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
Ensures that corrective measures meet acceptable quality standards, and that documentation is compliant with requirements
Assists Software Engineering in collecting and reporting metrics
Cross-trained in the hardware quality engineer positions in the department
Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, software engineering, or other STEM-related field with 2 years OR Master’s Degree in computer science, software engineering, or other STEM-related field with 2 years of relevant software development and integration work experience
Demonstrated knowledge of Agile software development process
Demonstrated knowledge of C, C++, Java, Python
Demonstrated knowledge in the collection of software data and metrics for reporting
Demonstrated knowledge in process and product evaluation
Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, software engineering, or other STEM-related field with 5 years OR Master’s Degree in computer science, software engineering, or other STEM-related field with 5 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
Experience in a Software Engineering environment in an engineering capacity, work plan review, manufacturing readiness review, and root cause/corrective action analysis
Familiarity with the Atlassian tool suite with add-ons like Git and Confluence
Certified in lean and six-sigma quality engineering methodologies
Ability to work independently with all levels of management to identify solutions to complex problems
Experience with software code review and open to learning different software tools
Northrop Grumman Mission Systems, Inc. is a company based out of 12011 Sunset Hills Rd, Reston, Virginia, United States.
Offices: 12011 Sunset Hills Rd, Reston, Virginia 20190, US
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