Position: Leader Quality Assurance
Location: Pune
Experience: 8 - 10 years in Quality Assurance
Compensation: As per experience and interview
About the Role
As the Quality Assurance Leader, you will be responsible for developing and enforcing quality standards across suppliers, production and finished products. The role involves quality systems, compliance, supplier quality, process improvement, customer/field failure analysis, team leadership and ensuring effective quality handover from product development to mass production.
Key Responsibilities
- Establish quality standards for raw materials, components, processes and finished products.
- Maintain and control the Quality Management System, including SOPs, work instructions, manuals and records.
- Ensure compliance with applicable standards including ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and IATF 16949.
- Lead root-cause investigations using 8D, Fishbone and 5 Why methodologies.
- Manage Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA).
- Drive continuous improvement through Lean Six Sigma and Kaizen methodologies.
- Conduct supplier quality audits and evaluations.
- Monitor in-process quality controls across production.
- Ensure testing and measuring equipment is properly calibrated.
- Lead and develop QA Engineers, Technicians and QC Inspectors.
- Coordinate with Production, Engineering, PPC and Service teams.
- Analyze field failures and implement corrective actions.
- Lead quality validation and product handover from development to mass production.
Required Skills & Qualifications
Must-Have:
- B.Tech in ECE or EEE.
- 10 years of Quality Assurance experience.
- Strong understanding of QMS.
- Experience with inspection and testing procedures.
- Knowledge of calibration systems.
- Strong RCA and problem-solving capabilities.
- Experience with CAPA and quality methodologies.
- Audit and compliance management experience.
- Strong team leadership and people-management skills.
- Knowledge of quality core tools and methodologies.
Preferred:
- EV/automotive quality experience.
- Power-electronics or electrical/electronics manufacturing exposure.
- IATF 16949 experience.
- Supplier Quality Management experience.
- NPI and mass-production handover experience.
- Field-failure/product-reliability experience.