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Software Design Quality Assurance Engineer

BAE Systems

Huntsville, AL · HybridFull-time$107–183K/yrSeen 4w agoSeen in employer's feed 3 days ago

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At a glance

Compensation
$107–183K/yr
Location
Huntsville, ALHybrid
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Secret clearanceBachelor's degree

Job overview

The Software Design Quality Assurance Engineer at BAE Systems will partner with engineering to embed quality practices early in product design, ensuring requirements, testing, and risk management meet military standards. The role involves planning, test solution design, design reviews, change control, APQP activities, mentorship, and continuous improvement across software products.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

CC++PythonRubyPerlJavaScriptWaterfallAgileHybridSAFe AgileSoftware Development ToolsSoftware Testing ProcessesVersion Control SoftwareJIRARequirement Management ToolsDO-178AS9145CMMIASPICEAS9100ISO 90018D/RCCAQuality Sciences

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Relevant Technical Field or Master'sU.S. Department of War Secret Security Clearance Capability

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Match
Paid Time Off
Parental Leave

Full job description

Job Description

What s it like realizing your potential at an innovative company that takes on some of the world s most important challenges? Rewarding. As part of our Precision Strike & Sensing SolutionsQuality Organization, you ll join a diverse group of driven professionals who design the products and systems that support enhanced military capabilities, protect national security, and keep critical information and infrastructure secure. With us, you ll be able to make an impact while you hone your skills and grow in your career.

BAE Systems is looking for a Software Design Quality Engineer to join our team. The successful candidate will serve as an assurance partner with engineering by influencing and providing technical guidance on design quality assurance. Through early engagement in the design and development phase, the successful candidate will influence the adoption of engineering best practices to identify and eliminate defects early in the product lifecycle. This person will ensure product designs meet customer, quality, and reliability requirements. This position will be responsible for supporting software designs and architectures for all products and may also provide some development support for software engineering teams.

A Software Design Quality Engineer will typically fulfill the following responsibilities:

  • Quality Planning & Execution: Contribute to software design quality assurance project bid estimates and tailor against contract requirements to develop and execute the software design quality assurance plan.

  • Requirements Validation : Ensure internal and external product requirements are understood, validated, and properly traced to design, implementation, and testing and support qualification testing inclusive of system test set-up conformity, test monitoring, and review of qualification test reports and failure investigation reports.

  • Test Solution Design and Validation: Ensure test strategies/solutions are properly designed to qualify products while ensuring factory acceptance tests meet the customer intent.

  • Product Factory Acceptance Test Support: Support software testing and verification including automated testing and validation procedures for software integration and modular architecture that focus on repeatability and reliability.

  • Design Reviews: Participate in and influence outcome of design reviews and provide constructive design related feedback on engineering documentation including engineering models, test plans, and other development artifacts.

  • Change Control: Ensure proper implementation and validation of design changes.

  • APQP/AS9145: Support Advance Product Quality Planning (APQP) activities such as Software Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (SWFMEA) activities and Key Characteristic (KC) identification.

  • Design Optimization: Ensuresoftware coding standards and best practices that focus on systematic and holistic approaches to software development are utilized.

  • Risk & Opportunity Management Support: Provide input to technical risk and opportunity management.

  • Design Process Compliance and Continuous Improvement: Ensure compliance to design processes,collect and analyze design quality metrics, and cross-pollinate software design best practices across programs to facilitate a culture of continuous improvement.

  • Mentorship : Mentor team members in design quality assurance, processes, and regulatory requirements.

Required Education, Experience, & Skills

  • Bachelor of Science (BS) or Master of Science (MS) in a relevant technical field of study

  • Capable of obtaining a U.S. Department of War (DoW) Secretsecurity clearance

  • Ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with development teams and stakeholders and provide constructive feedback and mentorship to technical teams

  • Ability to influence without authority

  • Strong problem solving and risk management skills leveraged to ensure that the solutions meet the needs of the business and the warfighter

  • Experience in software development life cycle including requirements capture and verification, design and development, and software integration and testing including understanding the purpose of tests and method to validate

  • Design review experience

  • Technical competency in software engineering:

  • Knowledge of Software development tools, processes, and methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, Hybrid, SAFe Agile) and Software testing/approval/release processes

  • Evaluate code in programming languages such as C, C , Python, Ruby, Perl, JavaScript, etc.

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills

  • Bachelor of Science (BS) or Master of Science (MS) in Engineering

  • Experience in model-based engineering

  • Proficient in requirement management tools

  • Capable of troubleshooting using engineering lab equipment

  • Familiarity with DO-178

  • Knowledge of military aerospace testing standards

  • Experience with Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) and/or Automotive SPICE (ASPICE)

  • Experience with AS9145 APQP (SWFMEA)

  • Familiarity with Quality Sciences (8D/RCCA, AS9100/ISO 9001 standards)

  • Experience with version control software

  • Experience with JIRA or equivalent workflow management

Pay Information

Full-Time Salary Range: $107359 - $182510

Please note: This range is based on our market pay structures. However, individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to: business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience.

Employee Benefits: At BAE Systems, we support our employees in all aspects of their life, including their health and financial well-being. Regular employees scheduled to work 20 hours per week are offered: health, dental, and vision insurance; health savings accounts; a 401(k) savings plan; disability coverage; and life and accident insurance. We also have an employee assistance program, a legal plan, and other perks including discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance. Our leave programs include paid time off, paid holidays, as well as other types of leave, including paid parental, military, bereavement, and any applicable federal and state sick leave. Employees may participate in the company recognition program to receive monetary or non-monetary recognition awards. Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics.

Software Design Quality Assurance Engineer

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