Quality and CM Lead Engineer (ICAM)

Job overview

Quality and CM Lead Engineer (ICAM) in Reston, VA. This is an onsite position. This role supports the GEOAxIS Next (GxNext) program, focusing on modernizing the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s (NGA) GEOAxIS System by delivering secure Identify, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM) services.

What you'll do

• Works with the Program Manager to develop strategies, responsibilities, and information needs for QA & CM inspections to assess product integrity and execution discipline from a past, present and future perspective risk identification and mitigation.
• Identify and monitor leading and predictive metrics-based data collection and analysis.
• Perform inspections and audits on program plans, products, and verification practices prior to approvals to assess program’s ability to sustain performance.
• Responsible for developing, implementing and maintaining technical quality assurance and control systems to prevent defects in deliverable products.
• Defining and implementing standards, methods and procedures for inspecting, and evaluating the accuracy and reliability of products and/or services performance through measurement data.
• Using existing or developed systems, to identify failure trends and verify consistency of design and product functionality satisfying contract requirements throughout the entire product lifecycle.
• Lead the performance of planning, conducting, and documenting product inspections and quality audits to identify delivery risks in advance.
• Continually improve and maintain CMMI compliance with the program approved Tailored Process Baseline (TPB).
• Implement, improve and maintain QA & CM plans, procedures, and the software configuration management process for software releases and patches.
• Provide configuration management of supporting software documentation including documents required in the A&A RMF process, Knowledge-Based Articles (KBA), product support documentation (COTS, GOTS, and open source) installation scripts, test plan and procedures required to operate and maintain the delivered capabilities.
• Execute timely quality inspections and audits in advance of approvals & delivery.
• Generate corrective action requests for inspection and audit findings and maintain the Common Audit Database (CAD) with timely updates/closures of audit findings.
• Establishes a unified and forward-thinking collaboration between PM and QEC, ensuring that both immediate execution and long-term quality and configuration risks are identified and addressed.
• Lead improvements on building an automation roadmap & improving the CI/CD pipeline with program team.
• Coordinate with applicable stakeholders for baseline changes & troubleshooting issues with the build process.
• Improve and sustain the Configuration Control Board and develop associated materials to include briefings using a standard template, agenda and minutes.
• Oversee the publishing of the baseline Computer Software Configuration Item (CSCI) (e.g. source code, service offerings and documentation).

What we're looking for

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Experience

BS degree with 8 years prior relevant experience or Master with 6 years of prior relevant experience

Skills & competencies

quality and cm lead engineer

leidos

reston va

united states

full-time

onsite

quality assurance

configuration management

icam

nga

devops

ci/cd

agile

About the employer

Leidos is hiring for this role. Industry: Computer Systems Design Services. Sector: 54.