Manager Software Quality 2

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems sector is seeking a Manager Software Quality 2 to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals located in Rancho Bernardo, CA. Telecommute/remote is not an option for this position. This position’s standard work schedule is a 9/80 work week, to allow employees every other Friday off.

Essential Functions:

Provide the leadership necessary to ensure a keen focus on 1st time quality and quality early in the engineering life-cycle and must exemplify Northrop Grumman’s Leadership Characteristics Lead and manage a high-performing technical team of Software Quality Assurance (SQA) Engineers.

Team and collaborate closely with Software Quality Management Team, Mission Assurance Director and Mission Assurance Program Managers (MAPMs), Systems, Software, and Test IPT Leads, and Melbourne Software Engineering Director and Managers to better enable program and mission success.

Participate early in the capture/proposal life-cycle ensuring accurate and timely SQA estimates.

Hire and retain top talent to meet program SQA staffing requirements and affordability challenges while managing direct and indirect budgets.

Conduct employee performance management and development reviews, provide technical oversight, and encourage employee engagement.

Ensure the development and implementation of robust SQA Plans and Schedules.

Facilitate outstanding and timely execution of SQA activities; requirements traceability, product reviews, peer reviews, process excellence, supplier oversight, test excellence, non-conformance control, metrics and reporting.

Provide senior technical oversight for issue/problem resolution activities, root cause analysis and preventive/corrective action implementation.

Lead and participate in the continuous improvement of SQA command media, procedures, work instructions, tools, metrics, and training materials.

Co-chair the Software Quality Technical Discipline - stand up a technical community of practice that focuses on elevation of technical skills, cross program collaboration, sharing best practices and development of our people in their respective technical domains.

Refine best practices and expand program cross sharing to elevate program performance and growth.

Experience in Metric trend and analysis

Experience and expertise with the following are highly regarded; Software Development Methodologies (Agile preferred),CMMI Appraisals and Process Area Audits, AS9100, DO-178DevOps, DOORS, Atlassian Tools

Software Change Management, Aerospace Quality, Safety and Mission Assurance.