Software/Project Quality Engineer
As a Software/Project Quality Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring the quality and reliability of software and research projects from conception through deployment.
Roke are a leading technology & engineering company with clients spanning National Security, Defence and Industry through our Futures business and Intelligence as a Service. You will work alongside our customers to solve their complex and unique challenges.
The Software / Project Quality Engineer role involves a comprehensive approach to quality assurance, including developing project-specific quality standards requirements, conducting quality inspections and tests, maintaining quality documentation, performing audits, preparing performance reports, and ensuring compliance with safety, legal, and other regulatory standards.
Key Responsibilities:
- Quality Assurance Planning: Develop and implement quality assurance strategies and processes tailored to software development projects, ensuring alignment with project goals and customer requirements. Review and adapt Roke quality standards, procedures, and specifications for relevance to different programmes, developing specific variants where necessary.
- Process Improvement: Continuously assess and improve quality assurance processes, tools, and techniques. Implement best practices in quality engineering and lean methodologies.
- Testing and Validation: Design, develop, and execute test plans, test cases, and automated testing scripts. Provide quality inspections and testing of products, services, and deliverables to ensure they meet quality standards ahead of delivery.
- Risk Management: Identify potential quality risks and develop mitigation strategies. Ensure all plans and processes meet safety, legal, and other national or international standards.
- Compliance and Standards: Guarantee compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements. Maintain required quality documentation, including management plans. Conduct internal audits, advising of required corrective actions and tracking to closure.
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with software developers, project managers, and other stakeholders. Supervise external vendors and suppliers to ensure programme quality standards are met.
- Performance Monitoring and Reporting: Monitor key quality metrics, preparing performance reports for relevant stakeholders.
The Key Requirements...
* Minimum of 3 years in a software/Project quality assurance or quality engineering role, with specific experience in managing quality within software development projects.
* Technical Skills: Proficiency in quality assurance methodologies, tools, and programming languages. Knowledge of Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) practices.
* Analytical Skills: Strong data analysis skills for making data-driven decisions
* Problem-Solving: Strong problem-solving skills for identifying and resolving quality issues
* Certifications: Certifications such as CSQE, CQIA, or Agile certifications are beneficial.
Built over a 60-year heritage, Roke offers specialist knowledge in sensors, communications, cyber, and AI and ML. We change the way organisations think and act – through dynamic insights from the analysis of multiple layers of data. We take care of the innovative, technical stuff that keeps everyone safe – that’s our mission, passion, and motivation.
Joining a team united by purpose and ambition, you’ll be at the heart of an exciting growth journey: having doubled in size over the last 4 years, we intend to double our headcount by 2027. At Roke, every individual counts. We push technical boundaries, together. We re-invest in product innovation, and we empower our people to make a difference.
The Software/Project Quality Engineer is crucial in delivering high-quality software products, ensuring they meet customer expectations, regulatory standards, and specific requirements. This role demands a mix of technical, analytical, and interpersonal skills to manage quality across the software development lifecycle effectively.
Where you’ll work…
ROMSEY - Alongside hybrid and flexible working options, you’ll find our Romsey site located within beautiful Hampshire countryside, close to the picturesque New Forest District and not far from a superb stretch of the south coast. This is no corporate concrete jungle; this is a manor house site, with ample parking an on-site gym and a driveway full of daffodils in the spring.
Clearances…
Due to the nature of this role, we require you to be eligible to achieve SC clearance.
The Next Step...
Click apply, submitting an up-to-date CV. We look forward to hearing from you.