Quality Assurance Process Analysis, Advisor

Peraton is currently seeking to hire an experienced QA Lead in support of the Army Department of Defense Information Network (DoDIN-A) Cybersecurity and Network Operations Mission Support (ADCNOMS) program located at Fort Huachuca, AZ.

Candidate must reside within a 90-mile radius of Ft. Huachuca, AZ, with the ability to come on-site as required. Will follow the same telework arrangements as their NETCOM Government counterparts.

In this role, you will:

Be responsible for ensuring that all KPI's and performance requirements mandated in the PWS are fully met in terms of schedule, timeliness, and completeness
• Ensure deliverables adhere to Government requirements
• Responsible for customer satisfaction in supporting mission execution across the Enterprise
• Tracking and measuring the successful delivery of capabilities and services to the enterprise within all required performance metrics
• Provide direct input to management in support of monthly deliverables, status and program reviews
• Implement new, strategic initiatives to improve engineering processes and business processes

• Serve as the lead for ensuring the quality of work performed meets customer needs, expectations, and objectives
• Serve as the primary POC / understanding of customer and stakeholder current and upcoming needs across the program and task areas,
• Define the prioritization and sequencing of quality management initiatives & lead the execution of those activities
• Own and lead discussions from both business and technical perspectives
• Collaborate with Government service owner leads and stakeholders in project planning to establish quality metrics and review milestones
• Oversee testing for compliance with established quality metrics
• Lead a Continual Process Improvement program, for the continual evaluation of existing engineering and business processes and delivery outcomes compared to expected results; identifies and facilitates the implementation of all process improvements
• Building/updating/briefing/presenting program metrics
• Perform a variety of technical and administrative activities related to the function of QA (auditing), including, but not limited to, scheduling, checklist development, report writing, facilitating root cause/lessons learned analysis, and internal/external presentations
• Track and escalate unresolved non-compliance issues and corrective and preventative action plans to closure

Required:

• Minimum of 8 years with BS/BA; Minimum of 6 years with MS/MA; Minimum of 3 years with PhD

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline
• Minimum of 8+ years of experience, in a quality assurance position
• Minimum 5+ years of baseline QA/MA experience across a large-scale enterprise Information Technology (IT) program
• Experience supporting QA initiatives as appropriate
• Experience guiding working groups and teams for Milestone Reviews, Configuration Management, etc.
• Experience preparing/conducting presentations and making recommendations
• Experience providing status updates to System Owners and leadership
• Experience providing monthly status report to reflect the activities accomplished, issues, and path forward
• Experience with experience with and been directly involved in implementing the following frameworks: ISO 20000 and 27001, ISO 9001:2008, CMMI-DEV/CMMI-SVC Level 3, and ITIL
• Demonstrated strong attention to detail and organizational skills
• Excellent written and communications skills
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Requires ITILv4 Foundation Certification
• Ability to travel as required (CONUS/OCONUS)
• U.S. citizenship required
• Active SECRET Security clearance
• Ability to obtain a higher security clearance if required (TOP Secret/SCI)

Desired:

• Master's degree in Quality Assurance, Information Technology, Computer Science or related discipline
• Demonstrated experience in identification, baselining, maintaining, and controlling changes to IT enterprise assets desired
• One or more Industry certifications in Quality Management (e.g., American Society for Quality (ASQ), Lean Six Sigma (LSS)
• Agile certification (e.g., SAFe, Kanban, Scrum, etc.)
• Expert knowledge and experience with statistical methods and tools (e.g., Minitab)
• ITSM tools (e.g., ServiceNow, Remedy)
• Experience supporting a DoD Army customer

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