Quality Assurance Recruitment
What is Quality Assurance?
Quality assurance (QA) is a process-oriented approach that focuses on ensuring that products, services, and processes meet specific quality standards and requirements. In other words, QA is the process of ensuring that a product or service is consistently delivered to a high level of quality.
QA encompasses a range of activities, including planning, designing, implementing, and monitoring processes to ensure that products or services meet defined quality standards. This may involve the use of quality control tools, such as statistical process control, to monitor and improve the quality of products or services.
In industries such as pharmaceuticals, QA is an essential component of ensuring the safety and efficacy of drugs and medical devices. Quality assurance in this context may involve the establishment and maintenance of quality systems, compliance with regulatory requirements, and the implementation of quality control processes throughout the development and manufacturing processes.
Overall, the goal of QA is to ensure that products, services, and processes consistently meet specified quality standards and requirements, resulting in a high level of customer satisfaction and a positive reputation for the organisation.
Our Experience
Each team within our business specialises in a different function. This ensures that we have experts dedicated to continued learning within each field, as well as building relationships with relevant talent within each market place.
Due to this approach, we have access to a talent pool or highly skilled individuals within Quality Assurance, as well as a keen understanding of the skills and qualifications needed to support your organisation.
Key Roles We’ve Filled
Head of QA
Director of Quality Systems
Senior QA Analyst
Our Experts
Sam Howe
Recruitment Consultant
QA in Pharmaceuticals
Sam specialises in QA for the Pharmaceutical space. Partnering with our clients to find individuals with the right skill set for their organisation.
David Lobb
Senior Consultant
QA/R&D in Medical Technology
David has focused on Quality Assurance recruitment within the Medical Device space for the past three years. During that time he’s built out a strong network of skilled candidates.
Current Quality Assurance Roles
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between quality assurance and quality control?
Quality assurance (QA) is a process-oriented approach to ensuring that products, services, and processes meet specific quality standards and requirements. Quality control (QC) is a product-oriented approach that focuses on testing and inspecting products or services to ensure that they meet established quality standards. QA is about preventing quality issues from occurring, while QC is about identifying and fixing quality issues after they occur.
What is a quality management system (QMS)?
A quality management system (QMS) is a set of policies, procedures, and processes that are established to ensure that products or services consistently meet specific quality standards and requirements.
A QMS typically includes processes for document control, change control, corrective and preventive action (CAPA), and risk management, among other activities. The goal of a QMS is to establish a systematic approach to quality management that ensures consistent product or service quality and continuous improvement.
Why is quality assurance important?
Quality assurance is important because it helps to ensure that products, services, and processes meet specific quality standards and requirements. This can help to prevent quality issues, reduce waste and rework, and improve customer satisfaction. In industries such as healthcare and pharmaceuticals, quality assurance is critical to ensuring the safety and efficacy of drugs, medical devices, and healthcare services.
How is quality assurance implemented in a manufacturing process?
Quality assurance is implemented in a manufacturing process through the establishment of a quality management system (QMS). The QMS includes policies, procedures, and processes that are designed to ensure that products are manufactured to specific quality standards and requirements.
Quality assurance activities in a manufacturing process may include product design and development, process validation, in-process inspections, and final product inspections. The QMS may also include CAPA processes to identify and address any quality issues that arise during the manufacturing process.
How is quality assurance evaluated?
Quality assurance is typically evaluated through a combination of internal audits, external audits, and performance metrics. Internal audits are conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the QMS and to identify opportunities for improvement.
External audits may be conducted by regulatory agencies or third-party auditors to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and industry standards. Performance metrics, such as defect rates, customer complaints, and cycle times, are also used to evaluate the effectiveness of quality assurance processes.
