The QA Engineer is involved in the full variety of projects including realization of all products for spaceflight. You like to deal with questions such as “can we build it”, “is the process defined with sufficient level of detail” and “will it survive the mission”. Your role requires a mindset where you are capable to approve an electronic or a mechanical design or product in accordance with a set of established quality criteria.

Most often, details matter and you have a natural affinity with digging into the details of critical fabrication- or test processes in order to assess if they can be controlled and repeated when it matters. You are pro-active and driven to prevent failures and to justify your stance in a dynamic and multidisciplinary environment where “new” is only better if proven.

As such, your task will be

• To assure the quality of hardware and support the Product Assurance Manager
• Support in documenting processes or test instructions as well as results
• To inspect and approve hardware at SRON and SRON’s subcontractors or suppliers on given criteria
• To report the results and to follow up any non-conformances and corrective actions
• To execute material- and process analysis to support a failure analysis or a product development
• To perform nondestructive or destructive sample testing
• To instruct or witness a critical process during manufacturing and the assembly phase with a pro-active attitude in order to prevent failure
• To document meticulously materials, parts and processes that have been used