Software Quality Engineer

Reference: 85347-370502EVReady for What's Next? Kratos Defense & Security Solutions develops and fields transformative, affordable technology, platforms, and systems for United States National Security related customers, allies, and commercial enterprises. We proactively build trusted relationships with our peers, partners and customers, and take ownership for our actions—always striving to do the right thing. Kratos is seeking a Software Quality Engineer for SATCOM and Space Ground Resource Management Systems for projects and programs of varying size and complexity. The Software Quality Engineer will work on developmental and operational projects and programs and be part of the cross functional teams assigned to meet the contractual software quality requirements of the projects and programs. The Software Quality Engineer will oversee the software processes within our software development lifecycle for our project and program teams. They will work in coordination and compliance with Configuration Management. In this role, the Software Quality Engineer will be responsible for ensuring our software development processes are being executed per our Software Development and Quality processes, meeting Kratos' software quality standards. This role includes reviewing and providing inputs to the DevOps process and tools, supporting code reviews, performing software quality audits, and helping maintain and improve our Configuration Management and Software Development and Quality processes. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in software quality engineering, DevOps processes and tools, excellent leadership and communication skills, and a passion for delivering high-quality software solutions. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following: Supports the organization with initial compliance and ongoing preparation, testing and monitoring of the software development to ensure the software deliverable has been developed and tested in accordance with Kratos' ISO defined standards. Performs evaluation of internal controls, communications, risk assessments and maintenance of documentation as related to compliance with internal and external software quality and regulatory standards. Identifies risk and evaluates deficiencies while working with internal departments/business units to appropriately remedy them. Facilitates internal training on software quality requirements, processes, and procedures. Will perform Software Quality audits and may perform risk assessments Oversees software requirements testing and audits Ensuring adherence to Kratos Quality standards, ISO9001 and AS9100 standards as appropriate Supports and may actively participate in critical internal and external milestone deliverables (SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, on-site audits) Ensuring the appropriate software design reviews are conducted and documented Ensuring proper documentation of software baseline and changes, corrective actions and root cause analyses are executed Addressing non-conformances, ensuring corrective actions are properly executed Interfacing with customer on quality issues (FRB, quality compliance issues, ...)Ensure software development on projects and programs adhere to the Software Development Process