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Are you ready to join an incredible team? This contract is critical to the government and allows team members to work independently and in a team environment to achieve success. If you are passionate, motivated, and want to be part of an organization that values your contributions, we want to hear from you.

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The National Security Sector of Leidos has a career opportunity for a talented Sr. Software Quality Engineer to support a program in the Cyber & Analytics Business Area. This selected candidate will serve as the member of a team with the responsibility of ensuring the highest quality service is provided to our customer through the generation and control of program processes, performance of regularly scheduled internal process audits, and the consistent facilitation of structured improvement activities. The successful candidate will be an agent for change, possess high energy, have a passion for quality, and be self-motivated. The environment demands the ability to quickly establish working relationships with coworkers/customers in various national capital region locations.

• Manage program instantiation of the Quality Management System (QMS).
• Deploy and implement appropriate QMS processes.
• Integrate closely with the program team to implement and execute the QMS.
• Recommend, facilitate, track, and report on continuous process improvement activities.
• Implement audit practices for internal processes and products.
• Ensure adherence to all standards, Leidos policies, and best practices.
• Support the development and collection of performance metrics.
• Track, analyze, and report to program management on trends found in the performance metrics.
• Provide the program manager with timely metrics and audit outcomes to gauge progress towards quality objectives.
• Act as liaison for enterprise quality initiatives for the program and report to higher level management on Quality Achievement.
• Review and submit contract deliverables.
• Ensure compliance with PWS, QASP, EENG, ISO (namely 9001:2015) for the program as applicable.
• Create, update, adopt a Tailored Process Baseline (TPB) for the program as applicable.
• Document and work to resolve nonconformities and requirement escapes via root cause analysis and corrective/preventive action.
• Support Leidos reporting, such as Quality Management Reviews, In Process Reviews, Weekly Activity Reports, and Monthly Operational Reviews.

• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and at least 12 years of relevant experience. Additional experience may be substituted for a degree.
• Experience providing Quality Management with Software Development and IT Service Management Projects.
• Experience auditing to external quality standards such as ISO9001/ISO20000/AS9100/CMMI Dev or Svc.
• Experienced with peer reviews and process auditing.
• Experience collecting and analyzing metrics.
• Ability to multi-task, complete tasks without direct supervision, and function in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Excellent verbal and written skills.
• Proficiency with MS Office Products (Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, & Project).
• Ability to support limited domestic travel if needed.

• Experience with Agile principles.
• Experience with Software Configuration auditing.
• Experience with software peer review processes.
• Formal auditor training.