A Career at HARMAN

As a technology leader that is rapidly on the move, HARMAN is filled with people who are focused on making life better. Innovation, inclusivity and teamwork are a part of our DNA. When you add that to the challenges we take on and solve together, you’ll discover that at HARMAN you can grow, make a difference and be proud of the work you do everyday.

About the Job:

Development Quality brings the voice of customer to the project throughout the lifecycle with special focus on design to meet development delivery, field, service and initial quality targets.

Responsibilities:

• APQP Lead - Engineering Quality for Key OEM Projects.
• Work with IDC engineering leaders in establishing benchmarks for quality and productivity metrics
• Leading the Process Definition Team
• Plan and manage process definition activities across geographies
• Moderate international process definition workshops
• Review process artifacts
• Review contents of process modelling tool
• Involve in certification activities for Automotive SPICE, IATF & FUSA, Cyber Security. Should be able to review the static code analysis rules used by the team and assess the compliance and correctness. Evangelizing the Agile methodologies in conjunction with global teams. Provide support to IDC engineering groups in the setting up quality tools, metrics, processes and documents and define mechanisms to track and improve the same Coach / facilitate training to IDC engineering groups on BMS
• Perform internal audits to ensure compliance to the mandated quality process; Identify non-conformance and plans for improvement
• Measure and monitor quality and productivity metrics and contribute towards continuous improvement of the same
• Generate periodic reports, scorecard to senior management on the progress of the quality plans as against established goals
• Process Gap Analysis and Improvement
• Support process reviews and internal SPICE assessments worldwide
• Support external SPICE assessments
• Collect and evaluate lessons learned globally
• Assess process suitability, effectiveness and efficiency
• Support in Process Piloting and Rollout
• Support development of training material considering both young and mature locations
• Perform trainings in pilot projects
• Support pilot project teams in adapting standard processes
• Support tailoring of standard processes at rollout into projects

Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree in electrical engineering, computer science or equivalent technical education  
• 8-10 years of hands on industry experience in software development, and implementation/development of processes using models like CMMI-DEV or Automotive SPICE.
• Knowledge about industry standards like CMMI, ISO9001, TL9000, Automotive SPICE (HIS Scope), ISO/IEC15504, Test SPICE,
• Assessment experience (as Automotive SPICE assessor, CMMI Appraiser)
• Very good communication skills
• Ability to collaborate and manage geographically distributed multiple teams for process improvement and standardization.
• Understand business requirements and technical implementation of distributed services and have a demonstrated ability to collaborate with QA counterparts in other geographies
• English (business fluent)
• Willingness to travel

Preferred Qualifications

• University degree in electrical engineering, computer science or equivalent technical education  
• 8-10 years of hands on industry experience in software development, and implementation/development of processes using models like CMMI-DEV or Automotive SPICE.
• Knowledge about industry standards like CMMI, ISO9001, TL9000, Automotive SPICE (HIS Scope), ISO/IEC15504, Test SPICE,
• Assessment experience (as Automotive SPICE assessor, CMMI Appraiser)
• Very good communication skills
• Ability to collaborate and manage geographically distributed multiple teams for process improvement and standardization.
• Understand business requirements and technical implementation of distributed services and have a demonstrated ability to collaborate with QA counterparts in other geographies
• English (business fluent)
• Willingness to travel