System Quality Engineer Job Details | QualityAI

Qualitest is a leading AI-powered Quality Engineering Company seeking a System Quality Engineer (SQE) for Hardware-Only projects. The SQE will provide independent quality governance and oversight across the project lifecycle, ensuring project risks and health status are accurately represented and aligned with actual conditions.

Responsibilities:

• Perform regular project health assessments to validate alignment between reported and actual conditions
• Provide independent oversight of project quality, risk visibility, and governance processes
• Monitor key governance artifacts (RIDAC, PHA, compliance metrics) for accuracy and completeness
• Review project risk and issue tracking (RIDAC) for quality, aging, categorization, and visibility
• Identify incomplete, outdated, or inaccurate data and flag for PM correction
• Escalate recurring or unresolved issues to maintain transparency and accountability
• Ensure ownership of risk and issue management remains with the Project Manager
• Validate Project Health Assessment (PHA) against verified project conditions
• Identify and challenge misalignment between reported status and actual progress
• Support consistent and accurate quality reporting (e.g., weekly updates)
• Proactively identify risks, gaps, and inconsistencies
• Differentiate between isolated issues and systemic patterns
• Escalate recurring issues and support corrective action through governance channels
• Define and maintain quality documentation standards, templates, and runbooks
• Ensure validation evidence requirements are clearly established and understood
• Support audit readiness by ensuring documentation is accessible and complete
• Verify that validation activities have been completed and are supported by evidence
• Confirm documentation demonstrates: What was validated, Who performed validation, When validation occurred
• Escalate gaps in validation evidence or documentation
• Provide guidance to PMs and project teams on quality expectations and governance standards
• Reinforce accountability and role clarity across project teams
• Redirect execution-related requests to appropriate owners

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Quality Management, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• Experience in project quality assurance, governance, or systems engineering
• Strong understanding of risk management, project lifecycle, and quality processes
• Experience working with project tracking and reporting tools (e.g., ADO, ServiceNow, or similar)
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
• Experience supporting hardware-only or infrastructure-focused projects
• Familiarity with governance frameworks, audit processes, and compliance standards
• Experience with requirements traceability, validation practices, or quality reporting tools
• Ability to operate effectively in cross-functional and matrixed environments