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# Mission Assurance Software Engineer Level 4

- **Company:** Northrop Grumman
- **Location:** Aurora, CO, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $129,300.0 - $193,900.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Systems Engineering, Confluence, JIRA, Automation of Tests, Business Software, Code Review, Encodings, Continuous Integration, Scrum Methodology, Software Configuration Management, Software Engineering, DOORS (Software), Test Scripts, Bitbucket
- **Published:** August 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9128642/mission-assurance-software-engineer-level-4

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree in a STEM field with 8 years of professional experience - OR - Master's degree with 6 years of professional experience - OR - PhD with 4 years of professional experience.

 * Requires an active Top-Secret at time of application with ability to obtain Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) clearance

 * Experience in AS9100 based quality system implementation and maintenance
 * Understanding of software engineering principles, practices, and theories
 * Strong knowledge of functional, regression, performance, and security testing
 * Proficiency with test-automation framework and experience embedding automated tests into CI pipelines
 * Competent in a high-level language used for test scripts
 * Experience in code reviews, software peer reviews, and technical documentation reviews
 * Knowledge of software configuration control methods
 * Experience in software related metrics and reporting
 * Agile practices - Active participation in sprint planning, daily standups/SCRUM, retrospectives, backlog grooming
 * Strong communication skills and ability to work cross functionally while maintaining an independent role reporting to Mission Assurance
 * Observation reporting, traceability, monitoring and assisting in test failures, * Ability to understand and work with multiple enterprise-wide systems and software problem tracking tools such as DOORs, Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket
 * Experience using SAP Business Suite
 * Experience in Root Cause Investigation
 * AS9100 auditing experience and/or auditor training

## Description

* Develop, modify, apply and maintain quality systems and protocols for processing software.
 * Collaborate with software engineering and systems engineering functions to ensure quality standards are in place.
 * Devise and implement methods for testing and evaluating software.
 * Design and analyze inspection and testing processes, mechanisms and equipment.
 * Witness acceptance tests (FAT, SAT, etc.)
 * Audit quality systems for deficiency identification and correction.
 * Ensure that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards and that documentation is compliant with requirements.
 * Assist Software Engineering in reporting metrics to the SCRUM process including monitoring and assisting with the Epics, Sprints, Spirals, and Discrepancy Reports (DR) entry, resolution, closure and metrics around DR.
 * Other duties as assigned


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