Fabricación de las aleaciones NiTi:

Software Quality Assurance Manager

Experience required: 8 years of software related experience, 3 years in SQA, 1 year management experience.

Education required: B.S., computer science, information technology, or related technical discipline; M.B.A or M.S. in software engineering highly desirable. Appendix 4A Typical Software Quality–Related Job Descriptions 107

Duties: Manage the SQA organization. Provide personnel to support the projects that require SQA activities. Do strategic planning for the SQA organization. Inter- view and hire SQA personnel. Inform upper management of the status of SQA and its activities across the projects supported. Monitor the SQA portion of proposals and estimates. Provide management interface with software engineering and soft- ware process organizations. (Refer to Sections 4.5 and 4.10.)

Engineer Software Quality Assurance

Experience required: 4 years of software related experience, 1 year in SQA. Education required: B.S., computer science, information technology, or related technical discipline.

Duties: Perform SQA activities on the projects. Participate in software design reviews, testing, configuration control, problem reporting and resolution, and change control. Audit, monitor, evaluate and report on the software subcontractor activities. Assist in the Interviewing of SQA personnel. Produce write-ups and esti- mates for the SQA portion of proposals. Interface with software engineering, soft- ware configuration management and the software process organizations. (Refer to Sections 4.5 and 4.10.)

Software Reliability Engineer

Experience required: 4 years of software related experience, 1 year in SQA or reliability engineering.

Education required: B.S., computer science, statistics, or related technical discipline.

Duties: Perform the reliability calculations for the software projects that require them. Utilize the software reliability tools available on the PC to perform the calcu- lations. Advise the other software quality engineers on what the meaning of and results of the software reliability calculations are for the project.

Software Configuration Management Specialist

Experience required: 4 years of software related experience, 1 year in SQA or software configuration management.

Education required: B.S., computer science, software engineering, or related technical discipline.

Duties: Perform the software configuration management functions for the pro- ject. This includes software identification, configuration control, and configuration status accounting and configuration audits. Coordinate these activities with

software development and SQA. Review subcontractor’s software configuration management activities. Orient the software related personnel on projects as to the software configuration management requirements. Evaluate and support software configuration management tools for the project.

Software Safety Engineer

Experience required: 4 years of software related experience, 1 year in SQA, soft- ware safety, or human factors.

Education required: B.S., computer science, software engineering, or related technical discipline.

Duties: Perform the software safety functions for the project. This includes the evaluation of human factor, human-machine interface, and life critical functions of the software. Coordinate these activities with software development and SQA. Review subcontractor’s software safety activities. Evaluate and support software safety tools for the project.

Software Librarian Aide Experience required: None.

Education required: AA degree in computer related field, or computer technical school diploma, or high school diploma with proven competency in PC software. Duties: Assist the software configuration management person on the project in performing the software library duties. These duties include both the hard copy library management and the electronic library control. Handling the releases and baselines of the software and documents are an integral part of these function. Keeping access control is a critical function to be performed.

Senior Software Librarian

Experience required: 2 years as a software librarian aide.

Education required: AA degree in computer related field, or computer technical school diploma, or high school diploma with proven competency in PC software. Duties: Handle for the project the software library duties. These duties include both the hard copy library management and the electronic library control. Handling the releases and baselines of the software and documents are an integral part of this function. Keeping access control is a critical function to be performed.

Software Quality Assurance Engineering Assistant

Experience required: 1 year as a software quality engineering assistant.

Education required: AA degree in computer related field, or computer technical school diploma, or high school diploma with proven competency in PC software. Duties: Handle administrative activities for the SQA engineer on the project. Place information into the SQA tool used for the project to report deficiencies. Be the interface to the SQA tools in use on the project. Where necessary keep the SQA hard copy Project Book on SQA findings. Assist in test witnessing. Fill out SQA eval- uation reports where appropriate. Interface with software configuration manage- ment as necessary.

Software Quality Engineering Assistant Experience required: 1 year as an SQA aide.

Education required: AA degree in computer related field, or computer technical school diploma, or high school diploma with proven competency in PC software. Duties: Handle administrative activities for the SQA engineer on the project. Place information into the SQA tool used for the project to report deficiencies. Be the interface to the SQA tools in use on the project. Where necessary keep the SQA hard copy Project Book on SQA findings. Assist in test witnessing. Fill out SQA eval- uation reports where appropriate. Interface with software configuration manage- ment as necessary.

Software Quality Assurance Aide Experience required: None.

Education required: AA degree in computer related field, or computer technical school diploma, or high school diploma with proven competency in PC software. Duties: Handle administrative activities for the SQA engineer on the project. Place information into the SQA tool used for the project to report deficiencies. Be the interface to the SQA tools in use on the project. Where necessary keep the SQA hard copy Project Book on SQA findings.

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