Description:
Quality Assurance Engineer (ASPICE / Functional Safety)
Summary:
As a Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer, you will play a key role in customers quality culture. Your evaluations of the processes and work products of our development teams will significantly contribute to the overall effectiveness and maturity of the organization.
Job Responsibilities:
a) Develop QA plans with development teams, per organizational standards
b) Help assure the quality of work products and process activities for software development projects, per the QA plan.
c) Maintain records and effectively communicate the results of QA activities, including presentations and reports to management.
d) Identify critical issues and escalate them in a timely fashion
e) Define, collect, and analyze quality metrics, and the project and organizational levels
f) Facilitate systematic and effective risk management and problem resolution with development teams
g) Coach developers and cultivate quality champions in the organization
h) Identify common gaps and suggest improvements
i) Serve as an expert in customers processes, as documented and as practiced, for developers and management. Apply expertise toward sound QA judgments.
j) Initial focus is software quality, however, responsibilities could later expand to systems or hardware engineering
Skills:
Software quality assurance, Quality assurance, software development life cycle, iso26262, aspice, Software quality, automotive industry
Top Skills Details:
Software quality assurance,Quality assurance,software development life cycle
Additional Skills & Qualifications:
Experience:
a) 3 to 7 years of experience in a QA role for embedded projects, as defined in the Automotive SPICE or CMMI standards.
b) ISO26262 audit experience
c) Cyber Security audit experience is preferred
d) Experience in the automotive domain is preferred.
e) Experience in leading or contributing to process improvement efforts is preferred.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
a) Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, or equivalent combination of education and experience. A Master's degree is preferred.
b) Knowledge of the Automotive SPICE standard and the ability to apply it to production products is required. Certified ASPICE Provisional Assessor is preferred.
c) Knowledge of ISO 26262 standard and the ability to apply it to production products is required
d) Working knowledge of the electronics and software development environments
e) Critical thinking skills, for example, to distinguish consequential risks and issues from others
f) Statistical analysis for identification of systemic issues
g) Excellent verbal and oral communication skills.
h) Experience with ALM tools, preferably Confluence, Jira, Bitbucket, Atlassian
Experience Level:
Expert Level
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About Actalent
Actalent connects passion with purpose. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts that drive scale, innovation, and speed to market. With a network of almost 30,000 engineering and sciences consultants and more than 4,500 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia, and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500. An operating company of Allegis Group, the global leader in talent solutions, Actalent launched as a new specialized engineering and sciences services and workforce solutions brand in 2021.
