Requirements Traceability & Quality Assurance Analyst (N27001)

Position is 100% onsite.

About the role

Founded in 2007, SimIS Inc. is an innovative information technology solution Veteran Owned Small Business (VOSB) that models future environments, requirements, and capabilities, and then secures the enterprise from internal and external threats compliant with Federal, State, and industry standard governance to ensure client mission success. Our performance standard is “excellence,” with an outcomes‑based, quality focus in our services and products, guided by our core values of honesty (in word and deed), relationships (confidence and trust with clients and partners), teamwork (shared goals, mission, and purpose), loyalty (allegiance to our client and team), and importance of others (work and win as a team).

SimIS is seeking contract support for the capture, development, architecture, analysis, and quality assurance of capability requirements necessary to adapt to future threats and shape long‑term military strategy. The Requirements Traceability & Quality Assurance Analyst will conduct independent process assurance reviews for compliance with process and standards to identify gaps, risks, ambiguities, and potential delivery issues early in the development lifecycle. The analyst will independently assure data quality and traceability of capability life‑cycle management information and facilitate automation and digitization by identifying and documenting business requirements and supporting the implementation of approved change.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, management, information systems, accounting, economics, finance, business administration, public administration, operations research, programme and project management.
• Ten (10) years of experience in requirements engineering or requirements management, including elicitation, capture, development, analysis, evaluation, traceability, quality, and change management.
• Experience evaluating requirements traceability across comprehensive lines of development (DOTMLPFI – doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership, personnel, facilities, and interoperability).
• 5–10 years of experience managing requirements in accordance with formal configuration and change management processes.
• 5–10 years of experience supporting processes formally certified to ISO 9001.
• Experience with IBM Rational DOORS Next or equivalent tool.

Responsibilities

• Provide quality analysis and expertise in support of processes and outputs, specifically for Common Funded Capability Delivery programmes, programme directors, and requirements managers undertaking identification, elicitation, capture, analysis, evaluation, integration, and maintenance of high‑quality capability (business) requirements.
• Manage corrective and preventative actions (CAPA) identified during process assurance and quality reviews; facilitate adjudication of recommendations, work closely with stakeholders to ensure timely resolution, and maintain alignment between CAPA and program risk management and lessons‑learned processes.
• Support data quality assurance, including maintenance of requirements in the repository and program information in management tools, ensuring correct version and configuration control and meeting the organization’s traceability and quality expectations.
• Develop and maintain processes related to requirements traceability, including traceability criteria and quality reports throughout the capability development and requirements management life cycle.
• Produce scheduled and ad‑hoc independent quality assurance reports for programme directors, IPTs, core team members, and other stakeholders, including leadership.
• Contribute to the development of directives and standard operating procedures related to quality, requirements traceability, and the Requirements Repository.
• Support requirements engineering and management activities across all life‑cycle stages to ensure ongoing integrity of traceability processes and that capability requirements continue to satisfy stakeholder needs.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage.
• Short‑Term Disability (at no cost to you) & Long‑Term Disability.
• Life Insurance.
• 401(k) Savings Plan.
• Flex Spending Accounts.
• Tuition Assistance Program.
• Professional Development opportunities.
• Paid Time Off (PTO).
• 11 Federal Holidays each year.