Software Quality Assurance
Axiom Space22 hours ago
Houston, TX, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Develop software quality assurance plans, processes, and procedures for product design, qualification, testing, and acceptance.
- Maintain the Quality Management System and support compliance with AS 9100, CMMI, company policies, procedures, standards, and certifications.
- Implement and manage nonconformance processes, including investigation, trend tracking, resolution, and corrective/preventive action implementation.
- Support anomaly and nonconformance resolution working groups and panels.
- Conduct internal audits, submit findings, recommend Corrective Action Requests, and ensure timely audit completion.
- Perform product and process assessments and audits to support compliance and continuous improvement.
- Support the organization in achieving and maintaining CMMI-level certification in software development.
- Prepare Safety and Mission Assurance reports, status updates, presentations, and other quality-related analyses.
- Track tasks, activities, and milestones using JIRA and Confluence.
- Work with software design engineers, system and software safety engineers, and representatives from other subsystems.
- Work evenings and weekends as needed to meet critical project milestones.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university.
- 5–7+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance for human spaceflight.
- Knowledge of Quality Management Systems and quality processes in the aerospace industry.
- Knowledge of Capability Maturity Model Integration.
- Ability to plan, perform analyses, and report results related to quality requirements, product and process assessments, qualification, testing, audits, trends, and product improvement.
- Experience managing and tracking tasks, activities, and milestones in JIRA and Confluence.
- Experience maintaining a CMMI level rating in software development.
- Experience performing AS 9100 audits and assessments is desired but not required.
- Strong collaboration, accountability, technical rigor, execution discipline, and communication skills.
- Must be eligible for any required export-control screening to access NASA-, ITAR-, or EAR-controlled technical data or technology.
- Must be able to meet the stated physical requirements, including extended sitting or standing and occasional lifting of up to 25 pounds.
Benefits
- The role is generally performed in an office environment, with inside or outside work depending on the task.
- The position may require occasional evening and weekend work to meet critical project milestones.
- Employment may be conditioned on export-control screening for access to controlled technical data or technology.
- Axiom Space is an equal opportunity employer.
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About Axiom Space
Axiom Space builds and operates commercial human spaceflight services and orbital infrastructure, including Axiom Station, a planned commercial successor to the ISS. The company sells private astronaut missions plus in‑space research and manufacturing opportunities, and it develops NASA’s next‑generation lunar EVA spacesuit under the xEVAS contract. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Houston, it is privately held and will first attach station modules to the ISS before operating a standalone platform.