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Principal / Sr. Principal Engineer Software Quality
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation · 🇺🇸 United States-California-Woodland Hills
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About the role
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes CLEARANCE TYPE: Top Secret TRAVEL: No Description At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history. We are looking for you to join our team as a Principal Engineer Software Quality / Sr. Principal Engineer Software Quality based out of Woodland Hills, CA . This position is fully on-site. . What you will get to do: • Develop, modify, apply, and maintain quality evaluation plans to assist program activities for processing software and materials into partially finished or finished products. • Collaborate with Program and Engineering management on program quality planning and the establishment of program quality objectives. • Working with the Engineering Process Group, collaborate with software engineering and systems engineering functions to ensure quality standards are in place and followed. • Assists with verification and validation testing of software and system products. • Supports audit activities and audits quality systems for non-conformance identification and corrective action. • Ensures that corrective measures meet acceptable quality standards, and that documentation is compliant with requirements. • Assists Software Engineering in collecting and reporting metrics. The ideal candidate must be familiar with QMS (ISO 9001, AS9100, or etc..). This position is fully on-site. This position can be filled as a Principal Engineer Software Quality or Sr. Principal Engineer Software Quality. Basic Qualifications for Principal Engineer Software Quality: • Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or other STEM-related field with a minimum of 5 years of relevant software development integration work experience; Master’s Degree in Engineering or other STEM-related field with a minimum of 3 years of relevant software development and integration work experience. • Experience with development processes including Agile, Waterfall, and/or Spiral Development processes. • Experience in the collection of software data and metrics for reporting. • Active Top-Secret Clearance. • US Citizenship Required. • Experience with Scripting languages (e.g. Bash, Python). • Experience with Linux Operating System. • Experience with Git. • Experience with MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint). Basic Qualifications for Sr. Principal Engineer Software Quality: • Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or other STEM-related field with a minimum of 8 years of relevant software development integration work experience; Master’s Degree in Engineering or other STEM-related field with a minimum of 6 years of relevant software development and integration work experience. • Experience with development processes including Agile, Waterfall, and/or Spiral Development processes. • Experience in the collection of software data and metrics for reporting. • Active Top-Secret Clearance. • US Citizenship Required. • Experience with Scripting languages (e.g. Bash, Python). • Experience with Linux Operating System. • Experience with Git. • Experie