Quality Assurance Team Manager

Job Description

Description

SAIC is looking for an experienced Quality Team Manager(QTM) to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for the day-to-day management of the Quality Activities for the Software, Simulation, Systems Engineering & Integration Directorate (S3I) Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) Training Devices and System Software Lab (TSSL) Quality Program Plan (QPP).

Duties and Responsibilities Include: 

• Perform Quality Lead oversight by helping to refine different program’s software quality development plans by ensuring that they meet corporate and program contract requirements.
• Implements and executes procedures for and conducts audit, inspection, documentation, reporting, and resolution of Quality Assurance issues at all stages of the life cycle across the enterprise system, including new and existing hardware and software products.
• As a Quality Team Manager, plays a key role in interpreting and incorporating customer goals, feedback, and requirements to the quality program.
• Implements prescribed methods for collecting, maintaining, and compiling data needed for incorporation into quality program reporting and updating.
• Supports development, review, and updating of the program's Baseline Quality Program Plan (QPP) that describes application of the appropriate methodology and metrics for accomplishing and measuring Government-approved performance expectations and objectives.
• Implements and executes processes and procedures that conform to the QPP, as well as to contract requirements.
• Managing the team to ensure Quality Team Participates in document and code peer-reviews
• Verify peer review findings were corrected in accordance with standards.
• Ability to Review and properly perform verification for system level requirements located within DOORS and ensuring that all requirements are verifiable and quantifiable.
• Responsible for the generation, quality revisions, and editing of the Requirements Verification Cross Reference Matrix.
• Witness/Verify the execution of system integration testing and final acceptance testing.
• Identify noncompliance issues and monitor the corrective action plan to completion.
• Provide schedule status on quality activities.
• Coordinates & conducts scheduled and unscheduled audits.
• Performs trend analysis of noncompliance issues.
• Confirms all appropriate quality reviews were conducted prior to the release of deliverables.
• Collects and analyzes the quality measures for the project and make recommendations to the Government Division Chief on process and quality improvements.
• Prepares reports & quality work products.
• Ability to review technical data packages for adherence to the project scope, established standards and methodologies, and program requirements.
• Managing and recommends process improvements as related to quality on process standards throughout the software life cycle.
• Work within defined test environments and support/verify all levels of product testing.
• Ability to collaborate with developers to explain deficiencies in the software, process, provide potential solutions, and support as needed.
• Responsible for monitoring all processes for compliance with quality standards.
• Familiarity with the Rationale Unified Process (RUP), S3I EPIC Process and templates, and modified Agile to include daily quality team stands.
• Capable of reviewing test procedures based on system level requirements, ensuring that each requirement is traced to specific procedures and steps within procedures for verification.

Qualifications

Required Education and Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in related field, and minimum nine (9) years of professional experience. Four (4) years additional experience accepted in lieu of degree. 
• Minimum four (4) years experience in Quality Assurance 
• Ability to lead and manage a team of QA  Analysts with their Schedules and Training as needed; Monitor and Maintain the program’s Capability and Maturity Matrix Integration (CMMI) Level 3.
• ISO 9000 experience 
• Monitored and participated in the preparation of the programs
• Capability and Maturity Matrix (CMMI) assessment via the Process Maturity Index (PMI) database for Level 3. (Certified or Advance training)
• Perform SQA oversight by helping to refine different program software Quality development plans by ensuring that they meet corporate and program contract requirements.
• DOORS Experience
• JIRA Experience
• Extremely Detail Oriented
• Familiar with the Drawings Model Product Data Management
• Strong Manager skills to perform SQA oversite by helping refine different programs Quality Management Plan’s ensuring that it met corporate and program contract requirements.
• Excellent Communication Skills to work with many different teams.

SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.
Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.

Overview

SAIC® is a premier Fortune 500® technology integrator focused on advancing the power of technology and innovation to serve and protect our world. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, civilian and intelligence markets includes secure high-end solutions in mission IT, enterprise IT, engineering services and professional services. We integrate emerging technology, rapidly and securely, into mission critical operations that modernize and enable critical national imperatives.
We are approximately 24,000 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. SAIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer, fostering a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion, which is core to our values and important to attract and retain exceptional talent. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.4 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For ongoing news, please visit our newsroom.