QA Engineer - Private Brands

Home Depot • Atlanta, GA

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About The Position

The QA Engineer develops and validates factory and product assessments, tests, and inspections in coordination with suppliers, foreign sourcing offices, and service providers. The role ensures that process controls are executed effectively and that factories and products meet or exceed specifications and applicable national, state, and local laws. It also ensures compliance with relevant standard operating procedures, contracts, supplier buying agreements, and purchase orders, and monitors continuous-improvement and corrective and preventive action plans.

The position integrates supplier, factory, and product data and analyzes metrics and reports to monitor quality, service, cost, and risk. It focuses on less complex manufacturing processes and products with lower product-liability risks and related regulatory requirements. This engineering position concerns mechanical, electrical, or manufacturing engineering—not software testing, IT, systems engineering, or other software-related projects.

Requirements

• Must be at least 18 years of age.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
• Ability to travel internationally.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a field related to the job, typically engineering or another technical field.
• At least 2 years of work experience.
• At least 2 years of experience in engineering standards development, review, or enforcement.
• At least 3 years of experience in manufacturing, operations, quality assurance, or quality control.
• Experience developing and executing continuous-improvement programs, such as Six Sigma or Lean Manufacturing.
• At least 2 years of cross-functional, multi-project management experience.
• At least 3 years of analysis or statistics experience.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a technical field such as chemistry or materials science.
• International operations experience supported by oral and written foreign-language skills.
• Operational experience in a manufacturing or engineering environment.
• Computer skills sufficient to retrieve, manipulate, analyze, and interpret data.
• Ability to travel internationally.

Responsibilities

• Assign assessment, test, and inspection work to service providers based on selection criteria, technical requirements, and provider capabilities.
• Develop and validate factory and product test and inspection plans using applicable safety standards, industry trends, and historical performance data.
• Monitor Private Brand product returns, damages, and customer feedback, and implement continuous-improvement and corrective and preventive action plans throughout the product life cycle.
• Integrate supplier, factory, and product data and analyze metrics to monitor product quality.
• Evaluate and document cost-benefit trade-offs among prevention, detection, and failure-response activities.
• Support management in reviewing and resolving issues involving suppliers, factories, service providers, merchandising, store operations, distribution, safety, customers, and other supply-chain components.
• Analyze assessment, test, and inspection results; determine root causes of failures and non-conformities; and drive continuous improvement and best practices.
• Ensure compliance with applicable specifications, laws, standards, procedures, contracts, supplier buying agreements, and purchase orders.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level