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Validation Engineers

Also called: Quality Assurance Engineer, Quality Engineer, Quality Management Systems Engineer, Supplier Quality Engineer

What they do:

Design or plan protocols for equipment or processes to produce products meeting internal and external purity, safety, and quality requirements.

On the job, you would:
  • Study product characteristics or customer requirements to determine validation objectives and standards.
  • Analyze validation test data to determine whether systems or processes have met validation criteria or to identify root causes of production problems.
  • Develop validation master plans, process flow diagrams, test cases, or standard operating procedures.
On the job, you'll need:

Engineering and Technology

  • product and service development
  • design

Manufactured or Agricultural Goods

  • manufacture and distribution of products

Arts and Humanities

  • English language

Business

  • customer service

Basic Skills

  • reading work related information
  • talking to others

Problem Solving

  • noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it

People and Technology Systems

  • figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it
  • measuring how well a system is working and how to improve it

Verbal

  • communicate by writing
  • read and understand what is written

Ideas and Logic

  • use rules to solve problems
  • make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information

Math

  • choose the right type of math to solve a problem
  • add, subtract, multiply, or divide

Investigative

People interested in this work like activities that include ideas, thinking, and figuring things out.

  • Attention to Detail
  • Integrity
  • Dependability
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Cooperation
  • Adaptability/Flexibility

Development environment software

  • Apache Kafka
  • Apache Maven

Presentation software

  • Microsoft PowerPoint

Analytical or scientific software

  • Minitab
  • The MathWorks MATLAB

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Job Outlook

The job outlook for this position is Bright.

New job opportunities are very likely in the future. This career will grow rapidly in the next few years.

Median Annual Salary: $96,350

Education

Bachelor's degree is usually needed.