Principal Software Quality Engineer

Overview:

Draper is an independent nonprofit research and development company headquartered in Cambridge MA. The 2000 employees of Draper tackle important national challenges with a promise of delivering successful and usable solutions. From military defense and space exploration to biomedical engineering lives often depend on the solutions we provide. Our multidisciplinary teams of engineers and scientists work in a collaborative environment that inspires the cross-fertilization of ideas necessary for true innovation. For more information about Draper visit .

Job Description Summary:

Job Description:

Duties/Responsibilities
Provide technical assistance and support to customers suppliers and employees in resolving issues.
Assist in the improvement of manufacturing process and product efficiency to reduce nonconforming products.
Ensures products meet the organizations and customers quality and product integrity requirements.
Supports product development or operations team by providing analysis and expertise throughout the inspection process.
Leads a cross function team in the determination of root cause of failures. Identifies when failure analysis is necessary along with providing recommendations of the corrective measures.
Analyzes data to identify trends in product quality or defects with the goal of mitigating and preventing recurrence and future defects.
Subject Matter Expert in quality standards and principles knowledgeable and experienced in multiple technical disciplines.
Ability to independently assess customer needs and evaluate solutions to complex problems
Ability to lead quality teams providing technical oversight and mentoring less experience engineers.
Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills/Abilities
Ability to work on cross functional teams
Working knowledge of Lean Six Sigma principles
Familiarity with Quality Standards ISO 9001:2015 and AS9100.
Expert knowledge and skills in process integration.
Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
Excellent time management skills with the proven ability to meet deadlines.
Ability to prioritize tasks.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Good interpersonal skills to communicate clearly.
Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Education
Requires a bachelor of Science degree an Engineering discipline.

Experience
Requires 7-10 years experience in quality engineering or other engineering role.

Additional Job Description:

• Optimize productivity by designing implementing and testing new procedures

• Design low-risk experiments to prove/disprove improvements

• Create proposals for rolling out process improvements accounting for scope cost schedule risk metrics

• Recommend innovative compliant solutions to meet business needs

• Drive improvements to Drapers software development process including best practices

• Lead Agile/Scrum activities to deliver high quality compliant software

• Provide mission assurance by mitigating risks and enhancing opportunities and ensuring compliance throughout the software development life cycle

Required Qualifications:

• Familiarity with tools common to automation quality tools testing frameworks

• 5 years of work experience

• 2 years of experience in programming languages such as C C Java RUST Matlab Python in Windows LINUX or Solaris environments

• Experience with CI/CD systems like GitLab pipelines

• Ability to anticipate problems and take appropriate actions prioritize multitask work independently and as a team

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of government/industry standards such as MIL-Spec AS9100 ISO 9001 DO-178C

• Strong troubleshooting and reasoning skills; ability to debug and resolve difficult technical problems

• Experience with software Cybersecurity principles and tools

• Experience with Agile SCRUM (SCRUM Master ideal)

• Experience in a wide breadth of software development activities

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