Quality Assurance Specialist (Medical Devices)
Impact: Ensuring patient safety and product efficacy.
Ensures that medical devices meet established quality standards and regulatory requirements throughout their lifecycle. This involves developing, implementing, and maintaining quality management systems, conducting audits, analyzing data, and collaborating with engineering, manufacturing, and regulatory teams to identify and resolve quality issues.
What the day looks like
- People interaction
- Moderate
- Team vs solo
- Team-oriented with individual responsibilities
- Client facing
- Sometimes
- Impact visibility
- High
- Travel
- Rarely
- Schedule flexibility
- Flexible
- Remote work
- Hybrid
- Typical work hours
- 40
- Stress level
- Moderate
At a glance
- Median salary
- $85,000
- Entry-level
- $60,000
- Senior
- $110,000
- Growth by 2033
- Growing
- Demand
- Growing
- Freelance potential
- Low
- Salary growth potential
- High
- Typical student debt
- $30,000
Skills you'll use
Hard skills
- Quality Management Systems
- Regulatory Compliance
- Data Analysis
Soft skills
- Attention to Detail
- Problem Solving
- Communication
Technical complexity: High
How to get there
- Minimum education
- Bachelor's Degree
- Licensing
- No
- Years to mid-career
- 5
- Years to senior
- 10
- Career switching
- Moderate
Where this career leads
How people arrive here
Where you can go from here
Typical progression
- QA Engineer
- Senior QA Specialist
- QA Manager
- Director of Quality
Future outlook
- Automation probability
- Low
- AI disruption risk
- Low
- Demand trend
- Growing
How people feel about it
- Overall satisfaction
- 3.5/10
- Meaning
- 4/10
- Work-life balance
- 3.5/10
- Prestige
- 6.5/10
- Social perception
- High