Senior Software Quality Engineer

Position Summary

Airbus U.S. Space & Defense, Inc. offers advanced solutions to meet the most complex U.S. defense, security, space, and intelligence requirements. The role involves ensuring software products and processes comply with Airbus US Space and Defense policies, procedures, and standards, and meeting pre-established technical and contractual customer requirements.

Responsibilities

• Satellite Manufacturing Mission Assurance: 65%

  • Ensure software meets quality standards through testing, defect identification, and process improvement.
  • Collaborate with developers and stakeholders to deliver high-quality products.
  • Design, develop, and execute test plans, scenarios, and scripts.
  • Identify and document software defects, bugs, and potential risks.
  • Assess software usability and functionality.
  • Document and track software defects using bug tracking systems.
  • Report defects to software developers and collaborate on fixing them.
  • Analyze the root cause of defects and propose solutions.
  • Establish and attain Quality performance goals and improvement objectives.
  • Generate, monitor, and report site-specific quality metrics.
  • Ensure compliance with customer requirements, regulatory agency, government regulations, contract specifications, and company policies/procedures.
  • Represent the company at customer, regulatory agency, and internal management meetings.
  • Assure that all product and process quality deficiencies are satisfactorily resolved.
  • Establish and execute quality improvement plans.
  • Perform software products and process evaluations.
  • Provide feedback to management on the effectiveness of the software development effort.
  • Ensure all documentation and acceptance inspection of Flight Software delivery are in full compliance with contractual and regulatory requirements.
  • Liaise with concerned parties during all phases of software acceptance and delivery.
  • Participate in root cause investigations and RCCA activities for defects.

• Software Development: 15%

  • Participate in the entire software development lifecycle to ensure quality.
  • Review requirements, code, and documentation for quality and adherence to standards.
  • Contribute to the development and improvement of quality assurance processes and procedures.

• Continuous Improvement: 10%

  • Implement new quality processes and systems where appropriate.
  • Support a Design for Quality, inspection, manufacturability, and testability philosophy.
  • Aid in continuous improvement activities.

• Additional Responsibilities: 10%

  • Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC).

• Familiarity with different testing methodologies.

• Proficiency in using testing tools and technologies.

• Required: Bachelor's degree in software engineering. (Masters preferred).

• Required: 5 years of experience in Software Quality assurance (or equivalent).

• Required: 10 years in Software Engineering.

• Ability to build and perform manual and automated software testing processes.

• Ability to conduct test analysis and verify quality requirements.

• Familiarity with software testing in relation to specific stages of production development.

• Knowledge of processes, requirements management and engineering and project life cycles and their application.

• Experience delivering within multi-functional and/or multinational teams to achieve our goals.

• Experience delivering improvement actions/projects.

• Preferred: Experience in satellite manufacturing and mission assurance.

• Experience with configuration management practices.

• Experience with AS9100.

• Knowledge, Skills, Demonstrated Capabilities:

  • Excellent communication and listening skills.
  • Ability to summarize complex industrial situations in a clear manner.
  • Highly organized with attention to detail.
  • Team player to collaborate with lines of business and functional partners like Production, Test, Quality Engineering, Business Process, etc.

Education

• Required: Bachelor's degree in software engineering. (Masters preferred).

Travel

• 20-30% Domestic & International.

Equal Employment Opportunity

• Equal opportunity employer.

Company Information

• Quality & Mission Assurance

• Direct Reports: Exempt: 0 Non-exempt: 0