Sr Principal Engineer Software Quality

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 25% of the Time

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.

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is seeking a Sr. Principal Software Engineer Quality in San Diego, CA. This position is fully on-site at the Ranch Bernardo, San Diego, CA facility.

The Software Quality Engineer will be responsible for ensuring product and process quality with the software programming skills necessary to team and collaborate closely with systems, software, and test engineers to participate and provide technical oversight, comments, and solution alternatives throughout requirements analysis, design, code, and test. 

What you'll get to do:

• Participate in bid and proposal efforts to provide cost estimates.
• Review customer, system and software requirements to ensure the flow down of requirements is complete and unambiguous.
• Review and verify design documents meet appropriate standards.
• Review source code and provide technical feedback and solutions alternatives.
• Participate in contractual reviews and audits, program/IPT meetings, and configuration control board meetings.
• Perform process audits of software development processes to assure compliance to established policies, procedures, work instructions, and program specific plans.
• Examine the products associated with the preparation and configuration control of software test environments to assess the team’s readiness to enter formal testing.
• Witness execution of software qualification and system acceptance tests to ensure tests are executed in accordance with approved test procedures, requirements are fully verified, and that all test procedure and software anomalies are documented and tracked to closure.
• Evaluate and ensure software suppliers possess the capability and capacity necessary to execute and deliver procured software with unquestionable quality.
• Facilitate thorough root cause analysis on major findings and ensure appropriate corrective and preventive actions are developed and implemented in a timely manner.
• Conduct data analysis, data integration, and data management

The ideal candidate must have outstanding communication and collaboration skills, strong technical knowledge or background, understanding of software life cycles, and familiar with working in a classified computer lab environment.

Basic Qualifications for the Sr. Principal Engineer Software Quality:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Mathematics, or STEM related discipline with a minimum of 8 years of experience in Software Quality; Master Degree with a minimum of 6 years of experience in Software Quality.
• Software Quality experience.
• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Active Secret Clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Computer programming language(s) (e.g. C, C++, C#, Java, Java Script, etc.) experience.
• Experience in audits of engineering processes
• Experience in software supplier management (i.e., supplier audits).
• Active Top Secret Clearance.

Primary Level Salary Range: $129,300.00 - $193,900.00

The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.