Are you an enthusiastic, talented, and experienced Quality Assurance leader who excels at defining processes, setting standards, and conducting audits to ensure compliance and excellence? Do you enjoy thinking out of the box to balance rigorous ISO 9001/ASPICE standards with efficient delivery? If you love acting as an independent quality authority, influencing teams through governance and representing quality to customers and stakeholders, this role is for you!
✨ What You’ll Do- Define, maintain, and improve organization-wide QA standards and quality processes.
- Lead and support ISO 9001/ASPICE readiness and certification activities.
- Establish and audit compliance with internal quality policies and procedures.
- Review and approve test strategies, test plans, and test results for software releases.
- Assess release readiness and approve or block releases from a quality perspective.
- Act as a primary quality contact for customers, answering questions related to processes, controls, and quality practices.
- Identify quality risks, gaps, and improvement opportunities.
- Define and monitor quality metrics and release quality criteria.
- Promote pragmatic, efficient compliance that supports delivery goals.
- Proven experience in Software Quality Assurance in a senior or lead role in regulated or high-quality environments.
- Experience with quality maturity standards in medical or automotive fields (ASPICE).
- Strong understanding of software testing methodologies and SDLCs.
- Experience reviewing and approving test plans and release readiness.
- Detail-oriented, with strong analytical and auditing skills.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Comfortable interacting with customers, auditors, and cross-functional teams.
- Confident, pragmatic, and able to balance compliance with delivery efficiency.
Don’t meet every single requirement? At RTI, we are dedicated to building a fair and inclusive workplace so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t perfectly align with all qualifications in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway! You may be just the right candidate for this or another one of our open roles. Learn more about our commitment to our workforce, here!
💎 Nice To Have / Preferred Skills- Experience in regulated or high-quality environments.
- Prior experience supporting or leading ISO 9001 certification.
- Flexible Work: Hybrid office schedule + Home Office Stipend to cover the costs of working from home.
- Flexible Paid Time Off + “Real Vacation Bonus,” an additional bonus for taking more than 1-week of uninterrupted vacation.
- Annual bonus based on individual and company performance + other prizes and awards.
- We recognize employees for their achievements, offer great opportunities for career growth and development, and provide the tools they need to succeed.
- Click here to see all Spain benefits.
- We have been certified as a Great Place to Work for seven consecutive years both in Spain and the US. In addition, we were listed as one of the Best Companies for Women to Advance.
- We live and work by our core values, which emphasize excellence, teamwork, and reaching your potential. Our motto is “Enjoy the journey,” above all we must enjoy what we do and have fun at work. At RTI, you will work in a positive, supportive, diverse environment with a team that truly cares about you.
- We are defined by our “Working as One” culture and truly care about team’s interaction. That is why we plan trips for teams to get together in person, enjoy fun team-building activities and events, and feel more connected.
Real-Time Innovations (RTI) is the data-streaming company for intelligent distributed systems. RTI Connext® software is the critical nervous system for over 2,000 designs across Aerospace and Defense, MedTech, Automotive, and Robotics. Connext is the only real-time data streaming platform that can both control demanding physical systems and integrate them with cloud applications. RTI helps organizations develop, deploy, and scale intelligence and physical AI from edge to cloud, faster. RTI Runs a Smarter World™.
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Real-Time Innovations (RTI) is the largest software framework company for autonomous systems. RTI Connext is the world's leading architecture for developing intelligent distributed systems. Uniquely, Connext shares data directly, connecting AI algorithms to real-time networks of devices to build autonomous systems. RTI is the best in the world at ensuring our customers’ success in deploying production systems. With over 1,700 designs, RTI software runs over 250 autonomous vehicle programs, controls the largest power plants in North America, coordinates combat management on U.S. Navy ships, drives a new generation of medical robotics, enables flying cars, and provides 24/7 intelligence for hospital and emergency medicine. RTI runs a smarter world. RTI is the leading vendor of products compliant with the Object Management Group® (OMG®) Data Distribution Service™ (DDS) standard. RTI is privately held and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California with regional offices in Colorado, Spain and Singapore.
