ingeniero de control de calidad

Code 2149.2.7

This role has no official English translation yet; it is shown in Spanish.

The quality control engineer (jefe de calidad, aseguramiento de calidad o QA) designs and applies controls so product or process meets specs and standards. Use this Job Dictionary profile to profile industrial quality (not only software QA).

Essential skills

Knowledge

  • Bitbucket
  • CD Continuous Delivery
  • CI
  • CI Continuous Integration
  • Cloud Computing
  • Code Quality Analysis
  • Docker Swarm
  • Jasmine
  • Jenkins (tools for software configuration management)
  • Operating System
  • Software Development Lifecycle SDLC
  • Technical stack
  • Testing
  • Técnicas de control de calidad
  • communication
  • tools for ICT test automation
  • ICT project management methodologies
  • levels of software testing
  • quality standards
  • test procedures
  • quality assurance procedures

Skills and competences

  • analyse test data
  • apply health and safety standards
  • consult information sources
  • create solutions to problems
  • develop ICT test suite
  • identificar acciones de mejora
  • identify process improvements
  • inspect quality of products
  • inspect material
  • maintain test equipment
  • measure software usability
  • proporcionar documentación técnica
  • perform pre-assembly quality checks
  • undertake inspections
  • perform risk analysis
  • record test data
  • replicate customer software issues

Transversal competences

  • address problems critically
  • support implementation of quality management systems
  • meet deadlines
  • define quality standards
  • set quality assurance objectives
  • communicate test results to other departments
  • report test findings
  • quality assurance methodologies
  • think analytically
  • recommend product improvements
  • write inspection reports
  • oversee quality control

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What to assess for this role

Assess rigour, influence on production without being «police» and using data to prevent defects.

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Common questions about this role when you are hiring or writing the job profile.

What does a quality control engineer do?
Defines inspection plans, analyses nonconformities, supports audits and improves process capability.
Industrial QA vs software QA?
They share a defect-zero mindset; industrial focuses on physical product and plant standards; software on releases and digital tests.
What to assess when hiring?
Cases of scrap or claim reduction and ability to speak operations' language.

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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences