Provide technical expertise in software quality assurance for missile defense programs at MDA, ensuring quality evaluations, audits, and assessments for existing and developmental systems.
Requirements
- Experience assessing software quality assurance (including but not limited to agile/iterative software development model) to include requirements, design, development, testing, and deployment activities.
- Experience leading and executing extensive software quality engineering support efforts for complex weapon systems, system elements, interfacing systems, components, devices and/or processes for missile defense programs.
- Experience with software quality processes and products from requirements phase through testing and fielding, and experience implementing and tracking software quality metrics.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical expertise in software quality assurance to the government for the assigned programs.
- Participate in cross-functional teams conducting software quality evaluations, audits and assessments, for existing and developmental missile defense programs.
- Participate and provide input for Software Review Boards, failure investigations and failure review boards.
- Participate in assessments, tests, or technical interchange meetings to assess processes and practices for compliance with software quality assurance strategies, policies, and standards.
- Participate in technical meetings and independent software code reviews for software (including but not limited to agile/iterative) development efforts to assess compliance with industry-wide and MDA software quality assurance standards and best practices.
- Provide weekly status reports on activities and issues of concern.
Other
- Bachelor’s Degree in Professional engineering from a school of engineering Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology, Inc. in software engineering with a minimum of 7 years of experience in software quality assurance or engineering field.
- Travel periodically, approximately four times per year for 2-4 days per trip
- Position is located at MDA facility on Redstone Arsenal with expectation to work onsite approximately two days per week and additional days at local developer facility.
- Security Clearance requirements: Secret or the ability to obtain prior to start.
