Lead Configuration Manager (ICAM) and Quality Engineer

About the role

The Quality and Configuration Manager supports GEOAxIS Next(GxNext), a program focused on modernizing the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s (NGA) GEOAxIS System. The role involves developing strategies for QA & CM inspections, monitoring metrics, performing inspections and audits, and implementing quality assurance and control systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop strategies, responsibilities, and information needs for QA & CM inspections to assess product integrity and execution discipline.
• Identify and monitor leading and predictive metrics-based data collection and analysis.
• Perform inspections and audits on program plans, products, and verification practices prior to approvals to assess program’s ability to sustain performance.
• Define and implement standards, methods, and procedures for inspecting and evaluating the accuracy and reliability of products and/or services performance through measurement data.
• Lead the performance of planning, conducting, and documenting product inspections and quality audits to identify delivery risks in advance.
• Continually improve and maintain CMMI compliance with the program approved Tailored Process Baseline (TPB).
• Implement, improve, and maintain QA & CM plans, procedures, and the software configuration management process for software releases and patches.
• Provide configuration management of supporting software documentation including documents required in the A&A RMF process, Knowledge-Based Articles (KBA), product support documentation (COTS, GOTS, and open source) installation scripts, test plan and procedures required to operate and maintain the delivered capabilities.
• Generate corrective action requests for inspection and audit findings and maintain the Common Audit Database (CAD) with timely updates/closures of audit findings.
• Establishes a unified and forward-thinking collaboration between PM and QEC, ensuring that both immediate execution and long-term quality and configuration risks are identified and addressed.
• Lead improvements on building an automation roadmap & improving the CI/CD pipeline with program team.
• Cook up with applicable stakeholders for baseline changes & troubleshooting issues with the build process.
• Improve and sustain the Configuration Control Board and develop associated materials to include briefings using a standard template, agenda and minutes.
• Oversee the publishing of the baseline Computer Software Configuration Item (CSCI) (e.g. source code, service offerings and documentation).

Qualifications

• BS degree with 8 years prior relevant experience or Master with 6 years of prior relevant experience.
• Demonstrated experience of implementing quality management, product & execution inspections and performance monitoring within Agile development teams.
• Experience with configuring build automation tools such as Jenkins, Gitlab CI, CircleCI or similar for DevOps practices as well as Git branching with Java and/or Node (Gitflow or GitHubflow) and SharePoint Confluence, JIRA.
• Configuration management implementation experience with software development teams and demonstrated ability to manage software configurations and licenses.
• Works with team to establish project processes within management, technical and support areas.
• Implements a continuous improvement mindset and collaborates with teams to assist in solutions, deep analysis with continual focus on impacts to products/mission objectives.
• Communicates with internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to multi-task and function in a dynamic fast-paced environment.
• Texas State Security Clearance (TS/SCI).

Preferred Qualifications

• ISO/AS9100/CMMI/ITIL training and/or certifications.
• Facilitation of lean six sigma events within Agile framework.
• Establishing Agile predictive metrics and briefing external customers on efficiencies.
• CM experience in maintaining container images of a build pipeline, implementing multi-staged pipelines.