Requirements Traceability & Quality Assurance Specialist

About the role

TekPillar® is seeking a Requirements Traceability & Quality Assurance Specialist to support requirements engineering, traceability, quality assurance, and capability development across complex defence programmes. The role focuses on requirements lifecycle management, traceability, requirements quality, DOTMLPFI alignment, configuration and change management, and requirements data governance. An active Secret-level security clearance is required.

Responsibilities

• Support requirements engineering and requirements management across the full capability lifecycle.
• Elicit, capture, develop, analyze, evaluate, and maintain high-quality requirements.
• Manage and assess requirements traceability, quality, completeness, consistency, and change control.
• Evaluate requirements traceability across DOTMLPFI lines of development.
• Support requirements development workshops and act as a requirements author and facilitator.
• Manage Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA) identified through quality and process reviews.
• Maintain requirements repositories and ensure appropriate version and configuration control.
• Develop and maintain requirements traceability criteria and quality reports.
• Produce independent quality assurance reports, assessments, and briefings for programme leadership and stakeholders.
• Support configuration and change management of requirements throughout the lifecycle.
• Contribute to directives, standard operating procedures, process improvement, lessons learned, and requirements governance.
• Use IBM Rational DOORS Next or equivalent tools to manage requirements and traceability data.

Requirements

• University degree in Engineering, Management, Information Systems, Accounting, Economics, Finance, Business Administration, Public Administration, Operations Research, Programme/Project Management, or a related discipline.
• 5+ years of experience within the last 10 years in Requirements Engineering and/or Requirements Management, including elicitation and capture.
• Active Secret-level security clearance.

Key facts

• An active Secret-level security clearance is required.
• The role supports requirements engineering, traceability, quality assurance, and capability development.
• A university degree in a listed discipline or a related discipline is required.
• The experience requirement is 5+ years within the last 10 years in Requirements Engineering and/or Requirements Management.