Job Description

Azure Summit Technology is a mature, growing small business with locations in Melbourne, Florida, and Fairfax, Virginia, that develops and delivers high-performance RF hardware, firmware, and software products, and innovative, practical, multi-function RF systems solutions that address emerging missions of national importance for customers across the Department of Defense.  We are a diverse team of highly qualified RF systems engineers and mission subject matter experts (SMEs) with backgrounds in electrical, mechanical, RF, hardware, software, firmware and systems engineering, working together within a creative, innovative and highly collaborative culture, to deliver cutting edge solutions for our customers.  To do this, we hire people with a passion to succeed.  We look for problem solvers.  People who have unique perspectives and diverse experience.

Are you in?

Do you work well in a team environment and on your own as an individual contributor?  Do you know how to set the bar high and achieve goals for yourself and bring others along with you?  Do you work hard and play hard?  Do you want to help the company succeed and build your skill set and further your career at the same time?  Azure Summit Technology just might be the place for you.      

What do we do?

Azure Summit Technology provides a wide range of multi-channel software defined radio solutions for applications including surveillance, emitter location, and interference cancellation. Systems can be tailored to meet a variety of requirements for bandwidth, dynamic range, number of channels, and computational resources. Supported platforms range from resource-constrained small UAVs and wearable devices to manned aircraft and submarines. Azure also offers innovative signal processing solutions to challenging problems in the realm of radio frequency spectrum awareness.

What will you do?

Azure Summit Technology is currently seeking a Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer. The selected candidate will be part of a dynamic, growing, cross-functional, and geographically distributed team.  This position is located at our facility in Melbourne, Florida, with occasional overnight travel to our office in Fairfax, Virginia and/or other locations as needed to support customer activities.  Your future team has worked together to produce the following job description:

The selected candidate will be responsible for helping to develop and maintain a culture of first-time quality throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC).  This selected candidate will help improve quality of our software products during the research and development of complex SIGINT, EW, radar, communications and other RF mission systems. Duties include the following:

• Actively participating in program activities, from initial proposal and planning to verification/certification and delivery
• Coordinate support across SQEs supporting a program, as necessary, to ensure SQE commitments are met
• Verifies software lifecycle activities and products comply with approved software processes, plans, and standards
• Identifies process or product non-compliances; supports root cause analysis and implementation of corrective actions and other defect investigation/prevention activities
• Teams with managers of supplier products to monitor and evaluate supplier software development performance
• Acts as an independent set of eyes and ears for Program Managers and the customer, highlighting potential best practices on the team, as well as areas for improvement
• Supports the identification and analysis of program/project software quality metrics to improve software quality and manage risk
• Serves as a subject matter expert for software quality processes and regulations
• Tracks and evaluates software team and supplier performance to ensure product and process conformance to project plans and industry standards
• Other duties as assigned

Basic Requirements

- US citizenship, due to nature of the work and contract requirement

- Ability to obtain a SECRET security clearance, due to nature of the work and contract requirement

- BS degree in computer science, electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent

- Minimum 2 years’ experience with the software development lifecycle

Preferred Qualifications

- TS/SCI Clearance

- 5 years’ experience with the software development lifecycle

-  Software quality engineering experience supporting software with AS9115 and/or DO-178 requirements

-  Experience as a software developer or software test engineer

-  Experience performing document reviews; test station code and document peer reviews; and cert sheet updates.

-  Experience performing Data Trend Tracking/Analysis

-  Involvement with products developed using Agile software development practices

-  Experience with DevSecOps and associated tools

Azure Summit Technology is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Veterans/Disabled Employer. Azure Summit Technology provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, results of genetic testing, service in the military, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Equal employment opportunity applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leave of absence, compensation, and training. Azure Summit Technology expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harassment or discrimination based on any of the characteristics mentioned above. Improper interference with the ability of other employees to perform their expected job duties is absolutely not tolerated. To request accommodation, contact Julia Bergeman, 571-308-1408, [email protected] .

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