Thales Group Hiring for Quality Assurance Specialist – Senior at Toronto, ON Full Time

Thales people architect solutions that support 85 million mainline and suburban passenger journeys, worldwide, every day. Our Rail Signalling and Communication systems are used on metro lines across major cities, and 72,000 kms of route, 52,000 trains per day in 16 countries are controlled by our Traffic Management Systems. Together We deployed the first-ever nationwide ticketing system which processes over 50 million ticketing transactions in 100 cities daily.

Thales provides world-leading Communications-Based Train Control (CBTC) and interlocking for mass rail transit applications globally. The Centre of Competence for Urban Rail Signalling is located right before you at mid-town Toronto. As the largest office in Canada, we house a department for every step of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)! This includes Software, Hardware, Systems Design, Verification & Validation, Operations, etc. The supporting corporate shared services teams in Finance, Human Resources and IT is also located at the office. Our office space was designed to provide a sustainable, healthy workplace that expresses TRSS’s brand while increasing collaboration. Features include Greenguard furniture, EnergyStar appliances, low-emitting adhesives, sealants, and sliding glass doors on internal offices provide daylight and views to the outside. Come join the big Transport family, here in Toronto!

Promotes a culture of Quality, provides leadership and guidance in respect to Quality Assurance issues to Engineering, Industry & Supply Chain and Services.

Key Responsibilities:
Perform compliance assessment for Contractual Quality Assurance requirements

Prepare the Bid/Project Quality Assurance Plans.

Prepare Quality Assurance estimates for the bid and perform documentation review as per bid submittal requirements.

Participate in Bid Gates/milestones review meetings and prepare Quality input and assessment (Bid Q advice).

Attend Project milestones review meetings and provide the Quality input and assessment (Project Q advice).

Prepare Quality Training plan and training material, organize and deliver training sessions to the project team as required.

Guide the project team in the definition and tailoring of the project process baseline.

Prepare Quality Management Reports and prepare and conduct Quality Readiness Review

Participate in Safety Case review and Safety Certification Readiness Review

Support Customer witnessed First Article Inspection FAI and First Article Test FAT (if required by the contract)

Perform Quality Assurance approval for various projects artefacts as specified in the respective processes.

Prepare monthly reports on project health status to Project Manager.

Perform engineering artefacts maturity audits. Record and analyze Quality findings to identify trends or issues to be addressed and followed up.

Participate in Continuous Improvement Actions working with Maturity Leaders.

Conduct Root Cause Analyses as required in conjunction with the engineering group.

Participate in Lesson Learned and Risk Review meetings, ensure the process is being followed and evidence for compliance is available.

Perform Site Quality Assurance Audit.

Support Customer audits and perform internal In-Process audit (if required by contract)

Assure that the concerns of customers are captured, understood and efficiently and effectively handled by the project team

Support the Maturity Leads and Discipline Process Owner(s) to ensure that processes are implemented in a uniform manner and the required level of competence is present across the respective teams

Identifies trends and alerts relative to identified problems, makes sure that action plans are implemented in a timely manner and assess their efficiency.

On a product line:
Verify the involvement of all relevant stakeholders and assure the implementation of clear governance rules for product line management

Evaluate the product life cycle synchronization periods and assure that all critical steps have been executed before each decision milestone

Assure that the products meet the technical / non-technical requirements / quality standards and that the product-line core team addresses the relevant action plans.

On a bid:
Contribute to the framing of the bid, the tailoring of the bid baseline, verify the involvement of all stakeholders and assure the implementation of clear governance rules

Evaluate the bid preparation, assure that all critical steps, decisions and actions have been executed before each decision milestone, including actions to mitigate risks and foresees the opportunities; provide visibility through the bid Quality Advice (Q memo)

Assure the implementation or planning of actions to mitigate the risks and seize the opportunities on sub-contracted work packages

Define the Quality Assurance part of the offer.

On a project:
Assure that the concerns of customers are appropriately captured, understood and efficiently and effectively handled by the project team

Assure conformity of project deliverables to customer technical and non-technical requirements, applicable Standards and regulations

Cascade and/or manage the Quality Assurance requirements

Guide the project team in the definition and tailoring of the project baseline and validate the resulting plans; tailor and focus Quality Assurance activities based on risks and team maturity

Evaluate the project execution (vs plans, customer requests and project decisions); evaluate work products through Peer Reviews; provide visibility through the project Quality Advice, relying on information and insight provided by Discipline Maturity Leaders

Assure the implementation or planning of actions to mitigate the risks and seize the opportunities on sub-contracted work packages.

Required Skills and Experience:
Minimum B.S Computer Science/Electrical/Mechanical Engineering or equivalent

Hands-on Engineering/Quality Assurance Specialist or Manager in a technology or manufacturing setting

Preferred Skills and Experience:
Hands-on Engineering/Quality Assurance Manager in Transportation Environment

Knowledge of CBTC system is an asset

Technical/Specialized Knowledge:
CENELEC/AREMA/IEEE standards

Quality Management System

Project Lifecycle and Deployment

Product Lifecycle

System/SW/HW lifecycle

CMMI

ISO9001

Process Improvement Training or background (Six Sigma, DMAIC, …)

Thales is an equal opportunity employer which values diversity and inclusivity in the workplace. Thales is committed to providing accommodations in all parts of the interview process. Applicants selected for an interview who require accommodation are asked to advise accordingly upon the invitation for an interview. We will work with you to meet your needs. All accommodation information provided will be treated as confidential and used only for the purpose of providing an accessible candidate experience.