Description
Development and Engineering is responsible for the development of the lithography products within the sector Marketing and Engineering. The Software cluster is concerned with the design, development, testing and integration of the complete software package which drives a generation of the lithography products. It is largely concerned with movement control on nanometer level, user interfacing and customer recipe definition and execution.The Software Quality Engineer will operate in a team that is responsible for quality improvement for the software cluster at our organisation. He/she reports to the Software Quality Group leader.
Job Mission
The Quality Engineers job mission is to contribute to improvement and control of the quality of the lithography system and embedded software and the associated software development process.
Job Description
Software Quality Engineer comprises the following tasks and activities:
- Definition and implementation of systems that provide measurement data on achieved software quality and software development process adherence.
- Interpretation of resulting measurement data: identifying deviations from agreed targets, identify causes and propose corrective actions
- Providing support in the analysis of ``mishaps`` to determine root-causes and identify (process) improvements
- Supporting or leading (small) quality projects that implement agreed (process) improvements
- Coaching teams in (re)-gaining control of both the measured and the customer perceived quality of their software deliveries by providing instructions, presentations, refresher training, moderating reviews, etc.
- Training/coaching employees at the start of their career in the use of the Software Development process and related tooling.
The software quality engineer is required to operate both on a level defining and implementing process improvements and metrics and on a purely operational level of measuring quality, reporting findings to various groups and provide operational support to improvements.
Job Requirements
- At least bachelor in software engineering or business administration, Green Belt six sigma.
- 5-10 years of experience in software development.
- Preferably a background or proven working experience in software quality and software process improvement
- Must hold an EU passport or a long term work permit in the Netherlands
Personal skills
- Enjoying working in a role that combines technology and process driven way of working
- Strong communication skills to individuals and groups
- Process oriented
- Tenacious but with understanding for work-floor constraints
- Hands-on mentality, result driven
- Team player
Other Information
- Candidates can be applied until and including August 8th, 2013
This is a great opportunity to work within a fast paced, multidiscipline environment supporting professional development and personal growth within an organisation that is the world leader in their field.