Job Purpose & Dimensions

• Given the organic growth of our enterprise, we do have the need to establish a central pool of tools, with a standardized way of using them in development, in order to assure development excellence, a high standard of quality and reuse across our SW assets, and investment efficiency in SW Tools, particularly in the area of open-source code security vulnerabilities, and code-quality risks derived from it.
• Work closely with SW development teams who are using Polarion, 3DS, R4J and Jama tools, and manage the tool to be used in a managed fashion in order to provide business added value.

Principal Accountabilities

• Maintain the requirements management tools in use (Polarion, 3DS, Jama, R4J) or other requirements management system on the existing infrastructure.
• Understand business requirements for the usage of the requirements management tools in use, and be the referee regarding which tool fits better each use-case.
• Design and develop custom-made solutions for traceability, implementation & test status reports in the requirements management tools in use, with respect to the business requirements from this category of tools.
• Proactively advice & support the Renesas Engineers with usage of the requirements management tools and provide coaching regarding the best practices for requirements management.
• Coach the reports creation and usage of the tools according best practices, tool performance and aSPICE compliance.
• Offer online training for Engineering staff regarding the configuration & usage of the tools in target.
• Understand & drive end-to-end architecture for optimal performance of the tools.
• Be the gatekeeper for the requirements management tools with respect to corporate compliance to standard.
• Explore technologies/solutions for continuous improvements; prime technical Interface for the vendor communication.
• Integrate the requirements management tools with the rest of the development tools in order to implement the best DevOps practices and facilitate the data flow.

Key Performance Measures

• Tool uptime and performance of the service
• Scalable architecture of new tool, with a ‘state-of-the-art’ level of security
• Business needs are properly acknowledged, managed and implemented.
• Regular training sessions for the new users of the service, and increased number of users of the tool.
• Ablility and willingness to learn new skills over time which are required for the job
• Integrate into the existing team and be a team player

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering or related equivalent
• Proven experience with Polarion, 3DS, Jama, DOORS, DOORS Next Gen, CodeBeamer, Requirements Yogy, R4J, TFS or other similar tools for requirements management or ALM / PLM systems – for both - usage and administration / configuration
• Experience SQL, Javascript or similar technologies used in the landscape of tooling, used for building extension of the basic functionality of the tools in target.
• Knowledge of aSPICE, ISO 26262, TISAX or similar standards can represent an advantage
• Experience or knowledge in the following areas would be advantageous: automotive, tools and methods for software quality assurance, aSPICE, System test, development of safety critical systems, system or software architecture definition
• Knowledge or experience with agile frameworks: Scrum, Kanban or XP.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Deep understanding of the state-of-the-art SW development methodologies and best practices.