Software Quality Assurance Engineer

The Software Quality Assurance Engineer mission is to ensure the projects compliance to internal development process, and that internally developed software meets the software industry standards. This includes conducting different types of reviews and audits on software work products and supporting software teams to address the identified gaps. The SW Quality Engineer monitors software quality during project execution throughout the software development lifecycle to identify potential risks, define corrective actions, and report results and quality metrics to senior management and program teams. The SWQA Engineer will be required to work with professionals from other global regions.

• Develop quality assurance strategy and schedule for SW projects.
• Continuously ensure the internal process standards are adhered to be projects through our their execution.
• Perform SW release reviews to ensure the releases are passing their acceptance criteria.
• Ensure the minimum quality criteria of work products is met.
• Ensure configuration items are properly management through Baseline audits.
• Support the team in addressing findings and gaps.
• Keep review criteria (checklists) updated with lessons learned and
• Act as an active part of the product development to ensure product quality is part of the development (understand project scope and product under development, attend project kickoffs, participate to technical and design reviews, be informed of released baselines of different artifacts, etc.)
• Create SW quality KPIs and publish on regular basis to SW stakeholders.
• Define SW maturity gates and track SW against the defined gates to identify and report deviations.
• Perform risk assessment of SW projects to short list suppliers for compliance assessments.
• Planning and organization of supplier assessments together with internal stakeholders
• Perform Supplier assessment ensure compliance to STLA standards for ASPICE, FuSa, Cyber Security, and AECDs. Also follow up on improvement action plans till closure.
• Standard communication of supplier compliance results to impacted stakeholders.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s of science in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science or related field.
• A minimum of 5 years of applied experience in Software Engineering.
• Certified Provisional ASPICE Assessor
• Strong knowledge of other software process models (CMMI, ISO26262, ISO21434, TS16949/QS9000).
• Thorough understanding of quality tools (APQP process, Root Cause Analysis, 8D).
• Familiar with MISRA tools/compliance.
• Worked within an Agile/auto scrum environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master of science in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or a related field.
• ASPICE competent assessor certification.
• Knowledge of ISO26262 certified.
• Master’s degree in computer science or electrical engineering.
• Familiar with Classic and Adaptive AUTOSAR.