Software Quality Engineer (Associate, Mid-Level or Senior)

The Boeing Company has an exciting opportunity for a Software Quality Automation Engineer (Associate, Mid-Level or Senior) to join our Software Quality Engineering team in Berkeley, MO.

As a member of this Boeing Software Quality team, you have the autonomy and responsibility to work with programs to ensure the required processes are used for developing, controlling, and verifying software products, whether developed by Boeing or provided by suppliers. This position will support programs within the Phantom Works division.

The successful candidate for this position must have expertise in evaluating and/or auditing safety critical software (hazards, requirements, code and/or tests) and should have a broad background in software development practices, tools, processes, combined with a passion for advocating First Time Quality strategies.

Position Responsibilities:

• Evaluates and/or audits safety critical software (hazards, requirements, code and/or tests)
• Supports and maintains program-level software quality engineering processes, resources, and infrastructure
• Actively participates in program activities, from initial proposal and planning to verification/certification and delivery
• Performs process and product audits to verify software lifecycle activities and products comply with approved software processes, plans, and standards
• Supports program milestone and formal review meetings, occasionally preparing and presenting information
• Participates in configuration management activities
• Supports completion of test readiness and software quality test activities
• Ensures integrity of the test process and verifies test results
• Works with regulatory agencies and other functions to develop criteria and procedures for software delivery activities
• Performs final reconciliation of software data products
• Identifies process or product non-compliances; supports root cause analysis and implementation of corrective actions and other defect investigation/prevention activities
• Partners with equipment managers of supplier products to monitor and evaluate supplier software development performance
• Acts as an independent set of eyes and ears for Program Managers and the customer, highlighting potential best practices on the team, as well as areas for improvement
• Supports the identification and analysis of program/project software quality metrics to improve software quality and manage risk
• Identifies and automates manual software quality engineering, compliance, and audit processes

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/ Experience):

• Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited course of study in Engineering, Engineering Technology (includes Manufacturing Engineering Technology), Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, and/or Chemistry
• 1+ year of experience working in a project where various software development methodologies are being utilized
• 1+ year of experience in a Software Quality role
• 1+ year of experience working independently to develop, modify and document actions to assure problem resolution and/or to implement corrective action and/or preventive action

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• Level 3: 3 or more years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Level 4: 5 or more years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• 1+ year of experience in software verification & validation and safety analysis
• Experience in Quality Management Systems (QMS) auditing
• Software Quality Engineering experience supporting software with AS9115, DO-178, and/or MIL-STD-882E requirements
• Experience with the full software development lifecycle (SDLC) is highly preferred
• Experience with configuration management and collaboration tools such as (or similar to) Git, GitLab, Jira, Collaborator, Bitbucket and Beyond Compare
• 1+ year of experience with building and maintaining DevOps and/or DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines
• Software development experience in a collaborative team environment using agile principles and a structured development process including code reviews and automated DevOps and/or DevSecOps processes/tools
• Active U.S. Security Clearance

Pay & Benefits:

• Summary pay range for associate level (Level 2): USD $83,300 – $112,700
• Summary pay range for mid-level (Level 3): USD $103,700 – $135,700
• Summary pay range for senior level (Level 4): USD $122,400 – $165,600