Quality Assurance Specialist jobs in Kalamazoo, MI

Job summary

Eaton Enterprise Center of Excellence is currently seeking a Quality Assurance Specialist, someone who is detailed-oriented and passionate about making a difference. Our candidate will be working primarily with Eaton’s Industrial Sector Aerospace division but will have the opportunity to support other sectors within Eaton developing new products for automotive and electrical industries.

The Quality Assurance Specialist is responsible for defining, revising, and maintaining engineering processes. These processes incorporate best practices intended to identify defects early in development and ensure customer requirements are achieved. The Quality Assurance Specialist will work with project teams to apply processes on projects and mentor project teams as needed. The Quality Assurance Specialist will also assess processes, audit work products and work with project teams to develop a plan to close non-compliances.
Our candidate needs to have demonstrated capability to mentor and influence others to be successful, but also the ability to recognize when help is needed to achieve quality objectives. Strong communication skills are a must to work with multi-disciplined engineering projects. The preferred candidate will have working knowledge in achieving the quality objectives defined in many of the Aerospace industry standards such as DO-178, DO-254, DO-330, DO-331 and/or ARP 4754. The preferred candidate must also be proficient with current embedded systems development methodologies, tools and practices, processes and capable to transfer best practices across projects and businesses.

What you’ll do:

Qualifications:

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from an accredited institution
• Minimum seven (7) years of experience working in new product development developing products that include embedded software in safety critical applications OR leading process improvement initiatives in airborne complex programs in line with industry standards.
• Minimum five (5) years of experience/knowledge leading Quality Process Assurance activities in airborne complex programs in line with industry standards. Examples - ARP4754, DO 178B/C, DO 254, DO-330, DO-331
• Must be able to work in the United States without corporate sponsorship now and within the future
• No relocation benefit is being offered for this position. Only candidates who currently reside within the immediate geographical area of Grand Rapids, Jackson, Galesburg, or Marshall MI will be considered. Active Duty Military Service member candidates are exempt from the geographical area limitation.
• Position requires use of information which is subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). All applicants must be U.S. persons within the meaning of ITAR. ITAR defines a U.S. person as a U.S. citizen, U.S. Permanent Resident (i.e., Green Card Holder'), Political Asylee, or Refugee.

Preferred:

• Experience leading customer audits such as SOIs, FAIs or equivalent.
• Experience in performing QA activities in Software verification (Requirements, Design, Code reviews) and validation (Unit, Integration, System testing). At least 4 to 7 projects with full software life cycle.
• Technical documentation and Requirement management Knowledge and awareness of software life-cycle process and configuration management.
• Strong knowledge of embedded software development process.
• Knowledge of White box, Black box, Integration Testing – Writing and executing test cases.
• Knowledge of software design methods.
• Must possess good working understanding of terms and concepts like QMS, Process Improvement, Causal Analysis, Estimation, Project Management, Risk Management, SDLCs, Reviews, Defect Management, Configuration Management.
• Knowledge of common requirements management and software configuration tools like (Jazz DOORs NextGen, RTC, JIRA, Bitbucket, Github etc.)
• ASQ Certified Quality Engineer (CQE) or Certified Quality Auditor (CQA)
• Knowledge of ASPICE and/or CMMi
• Six Sigma Green Belt certified.
• Quality System Knowledge (e.g., AS9100, ISO 9001, TS16949)