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Our Engineers are among the best in the business, and require equally devoted team members to help develop our advanced systems and products. Use your talent, education and experience to work with the latest in aerospace and defense technology. You’ll literally be defining the future. Bachelor’s degree required plus experience. Top-secret security clearance and U.S. citizenship are required.

Date: 10/31/2009
Location: Chantilly, VA
Software Quality Engineer 2 – 188634
This is an exciting opportunity for a Software Quality Engineer on a high performance development team delivering the latest in secure communications infrastructure technology.

We are looking for an experienced system technologist that has a background in working closely with a technical team and should be familiar with life cycle and agile processes including software development/testing, hardware development/testing, test processes, and quality assurance techniques. Familiarity with CM processes is a plus. Your responsibilities will be to verify and validate that developed secure communications systems meet or exceed the system requirements.
Specific duties include:
* Design, develop, and implement validation and verification methods for developed software systems
* Validate testing documentation tests the system requirements/user stories
* Validate software builds from source code provided by developers
* Verify software and hardware requirements through analysis, inspection, software code review, unit/integration testing, ad hoc testing, formal and internal verification testing
* Attend Requirement Reviews and other task meetings; produce detailed meeting minutes
* Validate hardware and software acceptance tests adequately test the developed system
* Review documentation for accuracy, content, and format.

The following are considered requirements for the position:
Bachelors degree required with 2+ years of experience, Master Degree with 0+ years, 6 years of related experience maybe considered in lieu of degree.
Must poses a current or active Secret clearance with the ability to obtain Top Secret/SCI and successfully complete a polygraph examination (current/active TS/SCI/FS Poly is preferred).
The candidate must possess knowledge of Microsoft Office.
Must have some experience with SourceSafe/Subversion.
Must have experience with 'bug tracking' software such as; DevTrack, TargetProcess, or BugTracker.net.
This position requires strong interpersonal skills in working with the customer, program manager and technical team in a "self starter" role.


Security Clearance Required.