Vector Synergy · 1 day ago
CONTRACTOR SUPPORT TO CAPDEV QUALITY MANAGEMENT BRANCH, QUALITY ASSURANCE ANALYST
Norfolk, VA
Contract
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expVector Synergy is seeking a Quality Assurance Analyst to support the CAPDEV Quality Management Branch. The role involves conducting independent quality assurance, auditing processes, and ensuring compliance with NATO Policies and Standards while fostering continuous process improvement.
ConsultingInformation TechnologyProfessional Services
No H1B
Security Clearance RequiredU.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Conducts independent Quality Assurance and audit of processes, functions and activities, and quality control of outputs for compliance with agreed quality criteria and metrics or authorized exception processes
Supports Capability and Programme Directors by performing independent, assessments of performance (cost, schedule, scope, performance and risk) against agreed tolerances
Produces risk-based quality reports and quantified improvement opportunities: leveraging process metrics to forecast benefits and efficiencies
Identifies and ensures resolution of Corrective and Preventative Actions (CPA) to manage risk and remediate issues, defects and deficiencies identified during audit and assurance reviews. Supports the identification and capture of programmatic and capability risks, on behalf of the accountable risk owners, to develop actionable recommendations and potential response activities
Leverages metrics and KPIs for external benchmarking of performance against comparable organizations and within and between internal teams
Fosters a culture of quality and Continuous Process Improvement through monitoring, measurement, and analysis and supports process owners in implementation of Continuous Process Improvement activities to improve quality of output, to increase the maturity of internal processes and to prevent issues, defects and deficiencies
Supports CUR/UR and other acquisition processes to ensure quality and consistency across NATO requirements management and NATO life cycle management (LCM) processes
Supports Business Analysts and Capabilities’ Programme Directors to maintain the quality of capability requirements and traceability throughout the lifecycle of the capability
Ensures that capabilities requirements are developed to NATO Standards across all Doctrine, Organization, Training, Materiel, Leadership, Process, Facilities and Interoperability (DOTMLPFI) lines of development and that dependencies with other capabilities are identified and managed
Provide independent quality assurance of information, management products and processes, and quality reports for CAPDEV leadership
Provide quality assurance expertise in support of HQ SACT’s programme management and requirements engineering and specifically in support of Requirements Managers undertaking the Identification, elicitation, capture, analysis, evaluation, integration and maintenance of high-quality capability (business) requirements
Support the ongoing development, and maintenance of the requirements repository and requirements related information and the achievement and maintenance of the organization’s requirements and quality expectations
Support the development and maintenance of processes relating to capability development and delivery. Contribute to the development of directives and standard operating procedures that relate to capability development and delivery including requirements development and management and the ACT Requirements Repository
Contributes to organizational continual process improvement activities
Participate in workshops, seminars, conferences and meetings in support of the activities above
Perform additional tasks as required by the COTR related to the labour category
Qualification
Required
A University Degree in engineering, management, information systems, accounting, economics, finance, business administration, public administration, operations research, programme and project management or related disciplines
Five years' experience in the last 10 in the field of quality assurance including requirements for engineering processes
Demonstrated minimum NATO or National SECRET clearance with the appropriate national authority for the duration of the contract
Nationality of one of the NATO Countries
Demonstrated proficiency in English as defined in STANAG 6001 (Standardized Linguistic Profile (SLP) 3333 - Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing) or equivalent
Demonstrable recent (i.e. in the last 5 years) experience working in support of processes that were formally certified in accordance with the ISO 9001 standard
Experience with IBM Rational Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM), DOORS Next or equivalent tool for quality assurance and requirements engineering including personal use of quality assurance tools for evidence-based quality reporting
Company
Vector Synergy
Vector Synergy deals with outsourcing of highly skilled IT professionals for the needs of international projects.
201-500 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageCompany data provided by crunchbase