Quality and Configuration Assurance Engineer

Overview

 

Expleo is seeking a Quality and Configuration Assurance Engineer to support a major DAL D to DAL A software assurance uplift programme. The role is responsible for maintaining the integrity, auditability and configuration control of all programme artefacts, ensuring evidence is complete, traceable, reviewable and suitable for formal customer acceptance.

Working across requirements, design, implementation, verification and certification workstreams, the successful candidate will manage evidence baselines, review records, action tracking, configuration status accounting and assurance documentation throughout the project lifecycle.

This role provides the governance backbone of the programme, ensuring that every requirement, review, test result and compliance artefact can be traced to an approved baseline and recovered during customer audit or certification review activities. 

 

This role is based full-time on-site, working directly alongside customer engineering and assurance teams throughout programme execution. 

Responsibilities

• Maintain configuration control of programme artefacts, baselines and evidence packages.
• Support software, requirements and verification configuration management activities.
• Manage review records, approval evidence and formal checklist documentation.
• Control evidence repositories and baseline releases.
• Maintain programme action, issue and compliance logs.
• Support Bitbucket repository governance and baseline management activities.
• Ensure artefacts are correctly version-controlled and traceable.
• Support preparation of compliance matrices and certification evidence packs.
• Monitor adherence to programme QA, CM and assurance processes.
• Conduct quality checks on project artefacts prior to formal reviews and releases.
• Support configuration audits and status accounting activities.
• Prepare evidence packages for customer reviews and milestone submissions.
• Work closely with Certification, Verification and Project Delivery Leads to ensure evidence completeness and audit readiness.
• Assist with formal project handover and final evidence-pack compilation activities.

Qualifications

• Degree qualified or equivalent experience in Engineering, Quality Assurance, Configuration Management or a related discipline.
• Configuration Management or Quality Management training desirable.
• Experience of regulated engineering environments preferred.

 

Essential skills

• Quality Assurance and Configuration Management (QA/CM).
• Configuration control and baseline management.
• Document and evidence management.
• Audit preparation and evidence support.
• Review and action tracking.
• Version control and change management processes.
• Strong organisational and administrative discipline.
• Ability to manage large volumes of engineering artefacts accurately.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Experience working within controlled engineering processes.

 

Desired skills

• DO-178C software lifecycle awareness.
• Aerospace or defence quality frameworks.
• Bitbucket, Git or equivalent repository management tools.
• Polarion or ALM evidence management experience.
• Experience supporting formal engineering audits.
• Familiarity with software verification and certification deliverables.
• Knowledge of traceability and compliance evidence structures.
• Experience supporting regulated development programmes.

Experience

• Experience managing engineering evidence packs and controlled documentation.
• Experience maintaining configuration baselines within regulated environments.
• Experience supporting quality management systems and assurance processes.
• Experience participating in audit preparation and review activities.
• Experience managing engineering records, approvals and compliance evidence.
• Experience within aerospace, defence, rail, nuclear or other safety-critical industries is desirable.

 

What do I need before I apply

• The role requires regular on-site attendance to access customer repositories, support formal reviews, manage evidence baselines and participate in assurance governance activities.

 

Benefits

• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges  
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects   
• Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses  
• Competitive company benefits
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo 

 

• As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to:
• Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
• Communicating and promoting vacancies
• Offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job
• Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
• Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people

“We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age”. 

 

We treat everyone fairly and equitably across the organisation, including providing any additional support and adjustments needed for everyone to thrive