What could be the best answer for your Ideal Quality Engineer position.?

My answer is Ideal Quality engineer position can be described as where the quality engineer goals, company's goals and customers goals can be integrated whole together as one goal.

what would be your answers..

thanks for ur answers i'd really appreciate it.

thanks .....

There will probably be some responses on Monday. Weekends are often quite slow.

As I work at home in weekends...
For me the ideal Quality Engineer position will be just sufficient, if we are considered as a part of business and not as sometimes we still are - a mere cost...
We may talk about Total Quality but at the majority of the places we are still not seen as a profit.
As you said, sometimes our goals are not the same as the company’s goals and are not easy to integrate...

My answer is Ideal Quality engineer position can be described as where the quality engineer goals, company's goals and customers goals can be integrated whole together as one goal. I would say that this is more of a description of a kind of company where a quality engineer would prosper and feel good working in. Such companies, in my opinion, are rare.

What could be the best answer for your Ideal Quality Engineer position.?

My answer is Ideal Quality engineer position can be described as where the quality engineer goals, company's goals and customers goals can be integrated whole together as one goal.This may seem sappy and rather a "canned" answer, but I agree with it.

Here's the thing: QA is a support function. Quality Engineers aren't employed to fulfill our own ideals; we are employed to maximize performance/obtain results as our organizations set forth.

When we find good placement this won't feel like prostitution. Nonetheless, there may be gaps between ideals and manageable outcomes. Our function is to know the difference between the two, and see that the best outcome is realized. We must be fluent in language of all parties, so we can be effective productivity conduits among them.

That's not easy. Increasingly we quality engineers must be at once staticians, systems managers and "people persons."

I hope this helps!

Yes, and more... I view a quality engineer as a person who has to interface with multiple departments, know all their complaints, what problems are real and which aren't, etc. I see the position of a quality engineer being one where one must have a broad breadth of experience and knowledge, must interface will all levels and departments at one time or another, and often a dispute resolver.

It's a very demanding, knowledge intensive position requiring a 'certain' personality.

This is a challenging question. For me, the job kind of happened over the years, no job description. I do remember seeing a video from IQPIC (I think) where they described the GM Powertrain development, and their involvement with a statistician (yes, this does beg the question is there a difference between a statistician and a quality engineer).

They did point out that the successful statistician job description would include

1. Routine access to senior management.

2. Cover performance of data analysis.

3. Cover asking probing questions of anyone, trying to frame and define statistical issues.

4. Provide mentoring and training in statistical methodology and statistical thinking to all, from lowest level to senior management.

What could be the best answer for your Ideal Quality Engineer position.?

My answer is Ideal Quality engineer position can be described as where the quality engineer goals, company's goals and customers goals can be integrated whole together as one goal.

what would be your answers..

thanks for ur answers i'd really appreciate it.

thanks .....

I don't the think the question can be answered in a way that would be useful to you. Whether or not any position is "ideal" is subjective. What might be a great job for me could be anathema for someone else. Another problem is that if you expect "ideal," you're probably going to be disappointed in one way or another. Every job has its down side, and how close any job is to ideal is largely a function of how well you're able to deal with that part of it.