Quality assurance group leader vs quality assurance specialist

The differences between quality assurance group leaders and quality assurance specialists can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. It typically takes 2-4 years to become both a quality assurance group leader and a quality assurance specialist. Additionally, a quality assurance group leader has an average salary of $85,818, which is higher than the $63,443 average annual salary of a quality assurance specialist.

The top three skills for a quality assurance group leader include internal audit, sops and quality issues. The most important skills for a quality assurance specialist are GMP, patients, and FDA.

Quality assurance group leader vs quality assurance specialist overview

	Quality Assurance Group Leader	Quality Assurance Specialist
Yearly salary	$85,818	$63,443
Hourly rate	$41.26	$30.50
Growth rate	3%	6%
Number of jobs	85,146	83,505
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 50%	Bachelor's Degree, 58%
Average age	44	44
Years of experience	4	4

Quality assurance group leader vs quality assurance specialist salary

Quality assurance group leaders and quality assurance specialists have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Quality Assurance Group Leader	Quality Assurance Specialist
Average salary	$85,818	$63,443
Salary range	Between $66,000 And $111,000	Between $41,000 And $97,000
Highest paying City	-	San Francisco, CA
Highest paying state	-	Rhode Island
Best paying company	-	Apple
Best paying industry	-	Pharmaceutical

Differences between quality assurance group leader and quality assurance specialist education

There are a few differences between a quality assurance group leader and a quality assurance specialist in terms of educational background:

	Quality Assurance Group Leader	Quality Assurance Specialist
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 50%	Bachelor's Degree, 58%
Most common major	Business	Business
Most common college	Stanford University	Stanford University

Quality assurance group leader vs quality assurance specialist demographics

Here are the differences between quality assurance group leaders' and quality assurance specialists' demographics:

	Quality Assurance Group Leader	Quality Assurance Specialist
Average age	44	44
Gender ratio	Male, 60.7% Female, 39.3%	Male, 42.8% Female, 57.2%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 6.2% Unknown, 4.7% Hispanic or Latino, 8.8% Asian, 12.0% White, 67.7% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.5%	Black or African American, 6.2% Unknown, 4.7% Hispanic or Latino, 8.8% Asian, 12.0% White, 67.7% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.5%
LGBT Percentage	11%	11%

Differences between quality assurance group leader and quality assurance specialist duties and responsibilities

Quality assurance group leader example responsibilities.

Replace a paper/pencil driven reporting process with a SQL database to automate data collection and reporting for entire customer facing organization.
Result in first pass ISO certification.
Record inspection or test data, keep records up to the standards and requirements of ISO.
Perform and/or oversee HACCP and GMP audits of the process as well as employee training in these areas as needed.
Conduct regression testing, testing of new features and enhancements to existing software to ensure system compatibility, integrity and performance.
Conduct application demonstrations to prospective hospital and nursing home clients demonstrating the legacy system and the newly develop windows base system.

Quality assurance specialist example responsibilities.

Manage all NDT relate gauges to ensure calibrations requirements are meet.
Provide employee training and manage all NDT certification records per ASNT SNT-TC-1A.
Lead the HACCP team to ensure full compliance with regulatory and industrial food safety standards.
Manage product and environmental sampling for chemical and microbial analysis to meet HACCP requirements.
Lead cross functional project team to build user-friendly windows base customer support applications which interface with the OmniPlan/OmniPlus mainframe application.
Execute quality processes in tissue banking and medical device, FDA requirements 21 CFR 1271 and 21 CFR 820.

Quality assurance group leader vs quality assurance specialist skills

Common quality assurance group leader skills

Internal Audit, 14%
Sops, 12%
Quality Issues, 10%
FDA, 9%
R, 7%
User Acceptance, 5%

Common quality assurance specialist skills

GMP, 6%
Patients, 5%
FDA, 5%
CAPA, 4%
Corrective Action, 4%
CFR, 4%

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