Northrop Grumman is a leader in technological advancements and is seeking an Associate Software Engineer or Software Engineer to join their team in Melbourne, FL. The role involves providing technical feedback during code reviews, conducting process audits, and ensuring compliance with software development standards.
Provide highly technical feedback during code review to ensure compliance with standards and best practices and that the code is correct, efficient, and maintainable.
Implement tools that aid in the collection and analysis of data relevant to Software Quality’s statement of work.
Perform process audits of software development processes to assure compliance to policies, both onsite and at supplier sites.
Review customer, system and software requirements to ensure the flow down of requirements is complete and unambiguous.
Participate in contractual reviews and audits, program meetings, and configuration control board meetings.
Examine the products associated with the preparation and configuration control of software test environments to assess the team’s readiness to enter formal testing.
Collect and analyze quality metrics on software activities.
Peer review software documents to ensure appropriate content and adherence to standards.
Interpret customer technical, software, and quality requirements and ensure those requirements are integrated into program plans, specifications, and product documents.
Ensure compliance with contract program, quality, organizational, and industry alert requirements.
Provide oversight in discrepancy review and software failure investigations as well as cause and corrective action determinations. Analyze and interpret trends and execute improvements on key metrics.
Facilitate thorough root cause analysis on deficiencies and ensure appropriate corrective actions are developed and implemented in a timely manner.
Monitor execution of formal software tests to ensure tests are executed in accordance with approved test procedures, requirements are fully verified, and that all test procedures and software anomalies are documented and tracked to closure.
Qualification
Required
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or other STEM degree or equivalent.
Experience coding in Java, C++, Python, or similar
Understanding of software engineering principles, practices, and theories
Ability to understand and work with multiple enterprise-wide systems and software problem tracking tools such as DOORs, Jira, Confluence, and BitBucket
Knowledge of waterfall, spiral, or Agile life cycles
Ability to obtain a Secret clearance
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, another STEM degree or equivalent and at least 2 years of software experience or a Master’s degree in one of the above disciplines with 0 years of experience.
Experience coding in Java, C++, or Python
Understanding of software engineering principles, practices, and theories
Ability to understand and work with multiple enterprise-wide systems and software problem tracking tools such as DOORs, Jira, Confluence, and BitBucket
Knowledge of waterfall, spiral, or Agile life cycles
Ability to obtain and maintain DoD Secret clearance and special program access
Preferred
Active In-Scope Secret/Top Secret Clearance
Experience with ISO and AS9100 standards requirements
Knowledge of Root Cause and Corrective Action tools
Excellent written communication and interpersonal skills
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Work well under pressure and adapt well to unplanned tasks
Ability and willingness to continuously learn and implement new processes
Dedicated to teamwork and be ability to work well in a team environment
Benefits
Health insurance coverage
Life and disability insurance
Savings plan
Company paid holidays
Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
Northrop Grumman is an aerospace, defense and security company that provides training and satellite ground network communications software.
