Principal Software Quality Engineer/Sr Principal Software Quality Engineer

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Northrup Grumman Space Systems has an opportunity for a Principal Software Quality Engineer or Sr Principal Software Quality Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be located in Aurora, CO. Join the Space PGS Division in its Drive for Excellence and work with our team of experts in developing and delivering Space PGS systems and solutions that keep our world safe.

Roles and Responsibilities: Develop, modify, apply and maintain quality evaluation and control systems and protocols for processing Software and Materials into partially finished or finished product. Collaborate with software engineering and systems engineering functions to ensure quality standards are in place. Devise and implement methods and procedures for inspecting, testing and evaluating the precision and accuracy of software and completed systems. Design and analyze inspection and testing processes, mechanisms and equipment. Conduct quality assurance tests and performs statistical analysis to assess the cost of and determine the responsibility for software products or materials that do not meet required standards and specifications. Audits quality systems for deficiency identification and correction. Ensures that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards and that documentation is compliant with requirements. Assists Software Engineering in reporting metrics to the SCRUM process including monitoring and assisting with the Epics, Sprints, Spirals, and Discrepancy Reports (DR) entry, resolution, closure and metrics around DR. Assist and sometimes sub in where needed as a Hardware quality engineer. Cross-trained to the hardware quality engineer positions in the department.

This requisition may be filled at either a Principal Quality Engineer or Sr Principal Quality Engineer.

Basic Qualifications for Principal Quality Engineer:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, another STEM degree or equivalent discipline from an accredited college with a minimum 5 years of relevant experience; 3 years with a master's or 0 years with a PhD.
• AS9100 based quality system implementation and maintenance.
• AS9100 auditing experience and/or auditor training
• Understanding of software engineering principles, practices, and theories
• Ability to understand and work with multiple enterprise-wide systems and software problem tracking tools such as DOORs, Jira, Confluence, and BitBucket
• Experience supporting an agile and/or dev ops software development environment.
• Top Secret clearance required to start. Must be able to obtain and maintain an SCI.

Basic Qualifications for Sr Principal Quality Engineer:

• BS within a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics discipline from an accredited college with a minimum 9 years of relevant experience; 7 years with a master's or 4 years with a PhD.
• AS9100 auditing experience and/or auditor training
• Understanding of software engineering principles, practices, and theories
• Ability to understand and work with multiple enterprise-wide systems and software problem tracking tools such as DOORs, Jira, Confluence, and BitBucket
• Experience supporting an agile and/or dev ops software development environment.
• Top Secret clearance required to start. Must be able to obtain and maintain an SCI.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience using SAP.
• Experience in Hardware Quality Assurance
• Understanding of GD&T
• Current SCI with CI Poly

Salary Range: $90,600 USD - $136,000 USD

Salary Range 2: $112,300 USD - $168,500 USD

Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

The health and safety of our employees and their families is a top priority. The company encourages employees to remain up-to-date on their COVID-19 vaccinations. U.S. Northrop Grumman employees may be required, in the future, to be vaccinated or have an approved disability/medical or religious accommodation, pursuant to future court decisions and/or government action on the currently stayed federal contractor vaccine mandate under Executive Order 14042 https://www.saferfederalworkforce.gov/contractors/.

Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for most positions.