Software Quality Assurance Engineer
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About the Role
LODD Autonomous seeks a Software Quality Assurance Engineer to ensure compliance with DO-178C standards for software development life cycle processes. The role provides objective oversight of software process compliance, conducts reviews and audits, and supports certification readiness.
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Responsibilities
- Assess and monitor software life cycle processes and outputs for compliance with approved plans and certification guidelines
- Perform process assurance activities including reviews, audits, and evaluations of development and verification activities
- Verify that software products and life cycle data conform to regulatory, safety, and certification requirements
- Provide oversight of software configuration management practices
- Review and monitor change control processes
- Support internal and external certification audits and assessments
- Identify process gaps or compliance issues and recommend corrective actions
Requirements
- Experience in software quality assurance for safety critical systems
- Knowledge of DO 178C or similar certification standards
- Ability to perform process assurance activities including reviews and audits
- Understanding of software configuration management and change control processes
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Role Overview
- The Software Quality Assurance Engineer ensures that software development life cycle processes and outputs comply with organizational policies, approved software plans, and certification requirements as per DO 178C.
- This role operates independently of software development activities and provides objective oversight of software process compliance and life cycle data integrity.
Key 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.
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