Through our Scarborough Research joint venture, Arbitron also provides additional media and marketing research services to the broadcast television, newspaper, out-of-home and online industries.

We are looking for a Senior Quality Engineer, to join our Enterprise Data team located in Columbia, MD

Responsibilities:

• Serve as expert process ambassador to selected project teams
  
• Develop business partner relationship with project teams to proactively advise on process application
  
• Support the application and roll-out of selected process improvement initiatives
  
• Provide the training, mentoring and auditing of defined processes to selected project teams needed to ensure institutionalization of the process
  
• Peer review work products of the EPG team
  
• Capture and report project quality status both qualitatively and quantitatively
  
• Report progress on tasks to project manager in a routine structured manner

Requirements:

• Posses a bachelor's degree or higher
  
• Skills to elicit project-specific process needs and challenges, convey value and purpose behind process requirements
  
• Skilled at developing a business partner relationship with project teams, able to help negotiate priorities and to resolve conflicts among project stakeholders (such as customers, product management, and engineering)
  
• Able to Communicate information effectively to customers, marketing, managers, and technical staff
  
• Knowledge of and experience with one or more software development lifecycles (waterfall, agile, iterative, spiral) In depth knowledge of multiple lifecycles based on first hand experience
  
• Lead process improvement workshops and help resolve conflicting needs (small groups and several types of facilitation techniques)
  
• 1 to 3 years experience with participation in the definition and/or data collection, analysis and reporting of process quality metrics
  
• 1 to 3 years experience with auditing software development projects against company or industry standard standards within context of structured audit program
  
• Possess experience providing guidance and mentoring to teams regarding the execution of defined software development processes.
  
• 1 to 3 years experience with project management concepts, principles and their application
  
• Utilized software process improvement methodologies (e.g. ISO, Six sigma, SEI CMM, CMMI, etc.) Knowledgeable and experienced in at least one methodology
  
• Has experience authoring process documentation that support a industry framework (such as CMMI) or enterprise policies and guide project execution
  
• Participated as technical member of software development team; possess first-hand knowledge of tasks within several phases of a lifecycle.

We believe a company is only as good as its people. Our mission is to create a diverse workplace where each individual is valued and respected.

We offer a comprehensive employment package, including competitive compensation, excellent health care plans, 401K matching, tuition assistance, stock purchase, skill development, flexible work environment and more.

Immigration Sponsorship will not be available for this position.
Send your resume to: itjobs@arbitron.com or Fax: 410-312-8607 Arbitron Inc., Attn: OE Recruiter, 9705 Patuxent Woods Drive, Columbia, MD. 21046