Staff Advanced Quality Engineer (Software)

For more than 80 years, our client’s engineers and product specialists have partnered with customers to produce highly engineered connectivity and sensing solutions that make a connected world possible. Their focus on reliability, durability, and sustainability exemplifies their commitment to progress. The unmatched range of their product portfolio enables companies, large and small, to turn ideas into technology that can transform how the world works and lives tomorrow.

Responsibilities:

QMS Ownership for Deliverable Software

• Translate AS9115 Rev A and AS9100:2016 requirements into practical procedures, work instructions, and templates.
• Establish processes covering software planning, development, integration, verification/validation, release, delivery, and post-delivery support.
• Ensure the QMS supports multiple development models (Agile, Waterfall, Incremental) while enforcing required quality controls including reviews, approvals, traceability, and documentation.

Software Planning & Requirements Quality

• Lead the creation and maintenance of Software Quality Plans.
• Establish standards for requirements management ensuring requirements are:

• Clear
• Unambiguous
• Testable
• Maintain bidirectional traceability from:
• Requirements → Design → Code → Test → Release.

Configuration Management & Change Control

Define standards for Software Configuration Management (CM) including:

• Baselines
• Configuration item identification
• Change evaluation and approval
• Configuration status accounting
• Integrate software configuration management with product and system configuration processes.
• Ensure CM covers software, documentation, tools, environments, and build/release artifacts.

Supplier & COTS/NDS Management

• Establish standards for evaluation and acceptance of Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) and Non-Developmental Software (NDS) used in deliverable products.
• Define AS9115 control applicability with both customers and suppliers.
• Support supplier qualification, audits, and incoming verification for software deliverables and services.

Verification, Validation & Test Assurance

• Define verification standards within the QMS including:
• Static analysis
• Peer reviews
• Unit testing
• Integration testing
• System testing
• Regression testing
• Security testing
• Ensure independence of verification activities where required.
• Maintain controlled test environments, data integrity, and objective evidence for compliance audits.

Release, Delivery & Post-Delivery Support Develop procedures for:

• Software release criteria
• Delivery records
• Installation documentation
• Post-delivery issue management
• Patching and configuration updates
• Ensure all processes align with AS9115 standards.

Audits, Metrics & Continuous Improvement

Lead internal and customer audits related to AS9115/AS9100 compliance.

• Manage Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA).
• Support external and second-party audits with aerospace OEMs.
• Define and track key quality KPIs, including:
• Requirements volatility
• Defect density
• Defect escape rate
• Verification coverage
• Audit findings aging
• Build reproducibility
• Change lead time

Requirements:

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in:

• Software Engineering
• Computer Science
• Systems Engineering or a related discipline.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in software quality or software engineering within aerospace, defense, or other regulated industries.
• Hands-on experience implementing AS9100 quality processes with working knowledge of AS9115 software lifecycle controls.

Strong experience in:

• Requirements management
• Configuration management
• Verification and validation
• Software release governance
• Experience managing COTS/NDS software integration and supplier quality.
• Proven ability to lead audit activities and corrective actions using structured problem-solving tools such as:
• 5 Why
• Ishikawa
• 8D

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting AS9115 second-party audits with aerospace OEMs.
• Familiarity with DO-178C concepts and coordination with DO-254/ED-80 hardware processes.
• Experience with ALM/PLM and configuration management tools, such as:
• Polarion
• IBM DOORS
• CodeBeamer
• Git / GitLab
• Bitbucket
• Azure DevOps
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, static analysis tools, and unit testing frameworks.
• Exposure to CMMI-DEV processes and experience aligning them with AS9115 quality objectives.