Software Quality Assurance Engineer

**Responsibilities:** * Assess and monitor software life\-cycle processes and associated outputs to ensure compliance with approved software plans, organizational standards, and certification guidelines (e.g., DO\-178C). * Perform process assurance activities, including reviews, audits, and evaluations of development and verification activities to ensure adherence to defined procedures and project objectives. * Verify that software products and supporting life\-cycle data (requirements, design, source code, verification artifacts, and reports) conform to applicable regulatory, safety, and certification requirements. * Provide oversight of software configuration management practices, ensuring that software baselines, configuration items, and releases are properly controlled and traceable throughout the software life cycle. * Review and monitor change control processes, ensuring that software changes are authorized, documented, and traceable to approved requirements and problem reports. * Ensure that the project maintains the ability to reproduce or regenerate executable software and parameter data from controlled baselines. * Support internal and external certification audits and assessments, ensuring that required evidence and records are available and properly maintained. * Identify process gaps or compliance issues and recommend corrective actions to improve software quality and certification readiness. **Qualifications:** * Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field. Advanced degree preferred. * Certifications in quality assurance, auditing, or compliance (e.g., AS9100 Internal/Lead Auditor, ISO 9001 Auditor, or equivalent) will be considered an asset. * Minimum of 5–8 years of experience in software quality assurance, process assurance, certification compliance, or auditing within safety\-critical or regulated software environments (preferably aerospace or avionics). * Demonstrated experience working within certification frameworks such as DO\-178C and familiarity with related standards (e.g., DO\-331, DO\-330, ARP4754A, ARP4761\). * Experience participating in or supporting certification activities, regulatory audits, or compliance assessments for airborne or safety\-critical software systems. * Strong knowledge of software life\-cycle processes, including requirements, design, coding, verification, configuration management, and change management as defined in DO\-178C. * Experience performing independent software process audits, life\-cycle data reviews, and compliance assessments against approved software plans and standards. * Familiarity with software configuration management and change control systems (e.g., Git\-based repositories, change request/problem reporting systems, configuration baselining). * Experience working with requirements management, traceability, and lifecycle management tools (e.g., Polarion, Jira, or equivalent). * Strong analytical, documentation, and technical review skills, with the ability to evaluate compliance of software artifacts and processes. * Effective communication and coordination skills, with the ability to work across development, verification, configuration management, and certification teams.