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Northrop Grumman · 1 month ago

Manager of Software Quality 2 - R10215273

Melbourne, FL

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$127K/yr - $190K/yr

9+ years exp

Northrop Grumman is a pioneering technology company that offers employees the opportunity to work on revolutionary systems impacting lives worldwide. They are seeking a Manager of Software Quality 2 to lead a technical team of Software Quality Assurance Engineers, ensuring quality standards in Military Aircraft Systems and collaborating closely with various stakeholders to achieve program success.

AerospaceData IntegrationManufacturingRemote SensingSecurity

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Provide the leadership necessary to ensure a keen focus on 1st time quality and quality early in the engineering life-cycle and must exemplify Northrop Grumman’s Leadership Characteristics Lead and manage a high-performing technical team of Software Quality Assurance (SQA) Engineers, in support of several key and critical Military Aircraft Systems

Team and collaborate closely with Software Quality Management Team, Mission Assurance Director and Mission Assurance Program Managers (MAPMs), Systems, Software, and Test IPT Leads, and Melbourne Software Engineering Director and Managers to better enable program and mission success

Participate early in the capture/proposal life-cycle ensuring accurate and timely SQA estimates

Hire and retain top talent to meet program SQA staffing requirements and affordability challenges while managing direct and indirect budgets

Conduct employee performance management and development reviews, provide technical oversight, and encourage employee engagement

Ensure the development and implementation of robust SQA Plans and Schedules

Facilitate outstanding and timely execution of SQA activities; requirements traceability, product reviews, peer reviews, process excellence, supplier oversight, test excellence, non-conformance control, metrics and reporting

Provide senior technical oversight for issue/problem resolution activities, root cause analysis and preventive/corrective action implementation

Lead and participate in the continuous improvement of SQA command media, procedures, work instructions, tools, metrics, and training materials

Co-chair the Software Quality Technical Discipline - stand up a technical community of practice that focuses on elevation of technical skills, cross program collaboration, sharing best practices and development of our people in their respective technical domains

Refine best practices and expand program cross sharing to elevate program performance and growth

Experience in Metric trend and analysis

Qualification

Software Quality AssuranceAgile MethodologiesCMMI AppraisalsDO-178DevOpsDOORSAtlassian ToolsSoftware Change ManagementAerospace QualitySafetyMission AssuranceLeadership Experience

Required

Bachelor's Degree in STEM plus 9 years of experience in Software, Software Quality, Mission Assurance and or Quality OR a Masters' Degree in STEM plus 7 years of experience in Software, Software Quality, Mission Assurance and or Quality

5 years of leadership/ supervisory or management experience

Must have an Active DoD Secret or Top-Secret Clearance renewed within the last 5 years

Ability to obtain Special Access Program Clearance