Quality Assurance
Expert professional IC
Career Explorer · Quality, Regulatory & Product Safety · Quality Assurance
Entry: Quality Assurance SpecialistIC ceiling: IC6Both
Individual contributor route
Technical or professional depth, without managing people.
- Quality Assurance Specialist InternIC0Optional developmental level
- Associate Quality Assurance SpecialistIC1
- Quality Assurance SpecialistIC2
- Senior Quality Assurance SpecialistIC3
- Lead Quality Assurance SpecialistIC4
- Principal Quality Assurance SpecialistIC5
- Senior Principal Quality Assurance SpecialistIC6
Management route
Managing people. It is not the step above the individual route: it is a different job and asks for different evidence.
This family has no management ladder.
Source: PROCOMER FTZ benchmark; employer career sites