A Quality Engineer may handle many manufacturing and technical roles. They must be able to comply with different regulation standards, hence they have to study and be conversant on the ISO 9001, AS9100, or other QA standards. These engineers need to incorporate their networking skills to coordinate with other QA professionals, engineers, and suppliers. They work in various manufacturing, food processing, agricultural or computer science industries.

A Quality Engineer usually performs many of the following tasks:

•  Handling customer QA issues
•  Reviewing operating procedures
•  Doing training and development exercises
•  Informing employees about yield performance
• Supplying targets for yield improvements
•  Coordinating department activities
•  Reporting on Quality Measurement Indices
•  Supporting SQE
•  Attending meetings
•  Making recommendations

• Collaborating on teams
• Oral and written communication
• Managing projects
• Interpreting technical drawings
• Being customer focused
• Organisation and problem solving
• Managing stressful situations
• Information technology
• Presentation and listening
• Being analytical and creative
• Managing numeric information
• Being thorough and professional
• Meeting deadlines and multitasking

Quality Engineers often pursue their education to the Masters Degree level. Many professionals, including Engineers may begin their careers as apprentices, using ONC, City and Guilds, HNC, GCSEs and NVQs to matriculate. They then gain work experience, increase their knowledge and skills, and continue their education. Studying courses in the engineering, technical of IT field can help you become a Quality Engineer. These courses include:

•    Computer Science
•    Technical Drawing
•    Mechanical Engineering
•    Electrical Engineering
•    Science
•    Physics
•    Mathematics
•    Statistics