Software Quality Assurance Engineer

MAKE A MOVE, MAKE AN IMPACT.

a.i. solutions was founded over 25 years ago with a mission to MAKE AN IMPACT by exceeding expectations. A move to our team means using your passion and ingenuity to MAKE AN IMPACT through innovations, defending national security, and enabling access to space. MAKE A MOVE, to join a team driven by a shared ambition, and rewarded for individual contributions.

BENEFITS THAT MAKE AN IMPACT:

• Comprehensive Benefits Packages
• Zero $$ Mental Health Therapy
• Paid Parental leave for Mom & Dad
• Paid Time Off w/Flex scheduling - create the work/life balance that works for you
• 401k Safe Harbor Plan, we contribute on Day #1
• Wellness plans that rewards wellbeing & work life harmony
• Career development and growth, and endless learning opportunities
• Engaged and supportive leadership that cares

 

Essential Roles & Responsibilities:

• Provide technical expertise in software quality assurance to the government for the assigned programs.
• Participate in cross-functional teams conducting software quality evaluations, audits and assessments, for existing and developmental missile defense programs. Activities include providing on-site verification and auditing at Developer facilities to ensure that robust controls are in place for quality assurance practices.
• Participate and provide input for Software Review Boards, failure investigations and failure review boards. Activities include determining root cause of failures of MDA hardware and software.
• Participate in assessments, tests, or technical interchange meetings to assess processes and practices for compliance with software quality assurance strategies, policies, and standards. Report results. Activities include providing on-site verification and auditing at Developer facilities to ensure that robust controls are in place for quality assurance practices.
• Participate in technical meetings and independent software code reviews for software (including but not limited to agile/iterative) development efforts to assess compliance with industry-wide and MDA software quality assurance standards and best practices. Report results.
• Assess software (including but not limited to agile/iterative software development model) quality assurance to include requirements, design, development, testing, and deployment activities.
• Demonstrated experience in the following:
  • Leading and executing extensive software quality engineering support efforts for complex weapon systems, system elements, interfacing systems, components, devices and/or processes for missile defense programs.
  • Software quality processes and products from requirements phase through testing and fielding
  • Leading the implementation of software quality engineering.
• Travel periodically (approximately three times per year for 2-4 days per trip)
• Position is located at MDA facility on Redstone Arsenal with expectation to work onsite 4 days per month.  Otherwise telework from home is authorized when not required to be onsite

 

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Professional engineering from a school of engineering Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology, Inc. in software engineering with a minimum of 10 years of experience in software engineering field.
• Acceptable substitute to ABET requirement: is a Degree and 12 years of experience in a software field.
• Current Secret Security Clearance or the ability to obtain prior to start required.
• U.S. Citizenship

 

Compensation: Starting salary ranges from $148,000 to $173,000 depending on relevant experience and qualifications.