Quality project lead (Freelance)

Key Areas of Responsibility

- Ensures that appropriate quality plans are made that include all stages of the life cycle of the product and supports Quality Plan design

- Validates key design inputs like: usability, reliability, performance, supportability, manufacturability, localizability, safety, security, privacy, serviceability, sustainability and costs

- Provides effective oversight of the execution of the Quality Plan, any Risk Management activities, and of all design related activities during the product/system lifecycle

- Performs independent technical assessment on product quality performance and post-market product quality analysis

- Can Lead quality related problem solving and root cause analysis during design and manufacturing

- Uses post-market analytics and statistics to report on product quality performance in the field (provide feedback to manufacturing, suppliers or design teams) and initiates field actions when required

- Act as a single point of contact (person assigned to project team) responsible to ensure that hardware design meets quality and compliance standards for every milestone

- Linking pin between DI/Project team & Consumer Care, External Parties/suppliers, Safety/Compliance/Health, and Legal

- Manage the product release process

- Reporting on internal Software metrics (status code, bugs, crashes etc.) and external metrics (consumers ratings in de App & Play stores)

Tasks

• Monitor the (new) Product development Quality through project reviews, metrics and performance indicators
• Creation of the Overall Project Quality plan
• Providing input for the software project quality plan e.g. FCR (field call data), SQM plan and CTQ parameters.
• Providing inputs and reviewing the software development plans
• Following up on software project data (metrics etc.), to ensure regular quality
• Regular progress reporting to entire project team (including an overview of product-level testing status, planned vs. actual quality parameters, critical quality issues)
• Tracking the creation and deployment of overall and product level review plans
• Reporting on verification status and quality parameters (incl. software product level ones) at external and internal SW milestones (as relevant).
• Performing lessons learned, and giving feedback of the same to software

Competencies

• a Master or Bachelor degree in Engineering (preferably Electronics, Mechatronics, Systems Engineering)
• Knowledge of Agile Scrum, SW Engineering/Programming,
• Strong communication and influencing skills; real team player
• Quality mindset and experience with Q tools like statistical engineering, Design for Six Sigma and/or Reliability Engineering;
• Proactive and supportive attitude towards the product development team, being a role model for the Quality function in the project team;
• Understanding of how product development projects are managed and how Quality plays a role in this;
• Personal competences: Proactive/ initiative, IT & Quality minded, love working with new technologies