Engineer, Quality Assurance Job Description
Engineer, quality assurance
provides day to day quality and technical support to all manufacturing disciplines and quality assurance in the form of quality plans, procedures and engineering support.
Engineer, Quality Assurance Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Plans and directs activities concerned with development, application, and maintenance of organizational quality standards
Expected to grow professionally and offer recommendations on QA best practices
Ensures designs meet stated technical objectives by performing risk analysis, evaluating test results, and recommending alternative designs/test procedures and protocols
Architecting and developing test strategies and execution plans that ensure high quality deliverables in an agile environment
Utilizing black box test approaches to drive strategic end-to-end tests to verify critical product features and functionality
Documenting and communicating all deliverables to extend knowledge to team members
Building and cultivating cross functional relationships with all engineering, product and technical stakeholders
Working in a fast paced environment with very passionate and dedicated engineers
Actively engaged in the safety initiatives of the plant (MESURE)
Author and execute test plans/cases based on software requirements and technical design specs
Engineer, Quality Assurance Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Engineer, Quality Assurance
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: IPC, QA, ISO, ASQ, ISTQB, CQE, ASQC, CQA, PED, ASME
Education for Engineer, Quality Assurance
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the engineer, quality assurance job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Science, Chemistry, Technology, Physics, Math, Computer Engineering, Technical, Education
Skills for Engineer, Quality Assurance
Desired skills for engineer, quality assurance include:
Statistics and the interpretation of statistical results
Application
Data and infrastructure architecture disciplines
Manufacturing process
Nomenclature
Practices
Procedures
Quality assurance principles
Active Directory administration
Selenium and other automated tools for testing
Desired experience for engineer, quality assurance includes:
Experience with DRM technologies (PlayReady, Widevine, Flash Access, AACS)
A positive mental attitude with a great desire to architect Quality Assurance solutions
Dynamic leadership qualities with the ability to lead a team in a fast paced environment
The ability to use all forms of communication to direct our testing days and shorten any lag time
Hunger to build new QA tools and technologies to move our team forward
Experience with QA tools used to track testing efforts for a large group of engineers
Engineer, Quality Assurance Examples
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of engineer, quality assurance. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for engineer, quality assurance
- Have knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Taking decisions in case of nonconformance and stopping the production process when there is risk of impacting the Customer
- Taking part of development and introduction of new products according to Sensata’s GNPD procedure
- Performing the job in compliance with the Quality and Environment policies
- Ensures compliance with applicable regulatory standards and requirements, , compliance with the quality system manual, quality policy, and all applicable work instructions
- Internal and supplier corrective/preventive action system
- Complaint system
- Internal audit system
- Control of non-conforming items system
- Calibration system
Qualifications for engineer, quality assurance
- Proficiency with working in a Linux/Unix based environment required
- Experience in converting manual test cases to automated versions
- Strong understanding of software development life-cycle and SQE processes
- Proficiency in a scripting language required - Perl preferred
- Complete knowledge on Selenium is mandatory both theory practical
- Proficiency in at least one programming language (C#, Java, JavaScript, Ruby)
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Our growing company is looking for an engineer, quality assurance. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for engineer, quality assurance
- Maintain and preserve product integrity by implementing best practices for test automation and quality assurance
- Develops and documents test cases, best practices and ensures they are communicated and applied
- Develop and perform peer reviews of user manuals and other required documentation supporting the development life cycle
- Participate in Scrum meetings and sprint planning
- Create test cases, test data, matrices and other QA related documents
- Communicate with developers, product managers and technical support specialists on critical issues
- Build and maintain automated test suites to ensure smooth hardware and software launches
- Work with a team consisting of product managers, program managers, technical program managers, developers, and testers to ensure highest quality product delivery
- Work with external partners such as music providers and hardware manufacturers to ensure smooth software and hardware integration
- Knowledge of industry standard test automation tools
Qualifications for engineer, quality assurance
- Year experience in developing tests for large-scale software systems using Java, Shell Scripts or C# in a UNIX, Linuxor Microsoft Windows environment
- Proven technical experience in Quality Assurance and software testing
- Demonstrated track record for code quality, automation, and continuous deployment are just the way things get done
- 5+ years of experience in Perl and/or Python automation, strong test case development, automation framework design/development, strong in programming concepts
- Experience developing high quality test plans and test cases
- 4+ years overall agile QAE and/or development experience
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Our growing company is looking for an engineer, quality assurance. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for engineer, quality assurance
- Work as a part of Agile team to test and automate tests for changes to the application
- Developing and implementing quality management systems in our manufacturing process
- Ensure compliance to deliverables within EFI’s New Product Development processes, all related to manufacturing process
- Creates/maintains processes and documentation for tool maintenance
- Ensuring that standards for production applications are followed
- Provide QA resource to product support to ensure regulatory compliance of post market products
- Ensure that released devices are safe and effective and meet their intended use
- Assist in production and market of product in investigating and reporting the results of investigations for reported technical problems as part of corrective actions
- Support the investigation of vigilance and reportable events and reporting of the results of the investigations to corporate and regulatory authorities
- Travel to assist in customer, internal and supplier audits where required either in the UK or internationally
Qualifications for engineer, quality assurance
- Some experience with scripting languages (e.g., Python)
- 2+ year of experience Javascript programming and testing, experience on Nodejs preferred
- 2+ years of experience with Perl , Python and shell scripting
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, quality technology or equivalent
- Computer experience with MS Word, Excel, Power Point and Outlook
- Basic understanding of statistics and statistical process control preferred
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Our company is looking to fill the role of engineer, quality assurance. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for engineer, quality assurance
- Develops risk management tools and aids for use by the organization in accordance with documented procedures, including but not limited to PFMEA, DFMEA, Fault Tree Analysis, Failure Mode Analysis
- Ensures process compliance through the development of simple yet comprehensive procedures, work instructions, flowcharts, forms, templates, checklists, worksheets, and other product and process related documentation
- Defining and executing the team’s quality plan
- Defining and executing the team’s release plan
- Collecting and analyzing data to guide product definition and go-to-market strategies
- Develops process improvement plans using a variety of Quality and Continuous Process Improvement tools, including but not limited to Six Sigma, LEAN, Manufacturing, 5S, SPC, engineering studies, DOE, Gauge R&R
- Ensures process efficiency and compliance effectiveness through the development and implementation of process verification and validation plans, including Master Validation Plans (Site Level), Validation Master Plans (Product or Process specific plans), and the development of simple yet detailed process flow diagrams that describe critical process interdependencies with respect to process inputs, outputs, risks and impacts
- Supports design mitigation efforts
- Investigate complaints generated from corporate complaints regarding materials produced in the manufacturing facility
- Support the supplier management program, SCAR creation/closure, NC processing
Qualifications for engineer, quality assurance
- Database fundamentals (SQL)
- Experience in Java/Perl/Python based automation and/or user-level
- Experience in Perl/Python/JavaScript or other scripting language and user-level automation
- Experience testing database applications and web-based enterprise systems
- Give you high visibility by collaborating with Lighting leadership to proactively evaluate business and quality process performance and risk to identify and prioritize opportunities for improvement
- You will get exposure to ALL aspects of the business and have an influence on business processes and decisions
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Our growing company is hiring for an engineer, quality assurance. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for engineer, quality assurance
- Review and edit existing procedures
- Participating in core quality functions
- Assist with defining and implementing Global Inventures Systems updates
- Evaluates product functionality and creates test strategies and test cases to assess product quality
- Will work remotely with a team of quality engineering professions to ensure the highest quality product delivery
- Help triage bugs and incoming customer feedback bugs
- Evaluate bugs and provide enough information and logs in both the supported language and in English, so that the development team can easily debug the issue
- Establish and optimize test methods and product specifications
- Write and conduct validations (IQ/OQ/PQ) for manufacturing processes and equipment
- Analyze adequacy of inspection criteria and techniques, recognize critical attributes when establishing validation requirements
Qualifications for engineer, quality assurance
- Familiarity with JEDEC and ISO 9001, TS16949, and MIL-STD standards
- Familiarity with automotive change management including APQP and PPAP
- Experience testing Android devices or other consumer electronic devices
- Minimum 3 years’ experience with Windows operating system
- Minimum 3 years’ experience with software and/or hardware testing
- A Bachelor's degress in CS or related field + 6 years of related experience or Master's degree in Computer Science + 4 years of experience in testing or development is desired