Mid Level QA Specialist Jobs
Mid level qa specialist jobs go to professionals ready to own test plans end to end, mentor junior testers, and make quality decisions with minimal oversight. Roles are 20% remote or hybrid, concentrated in Technology & Software, Consulting & Professional Services, and Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals, with employers like Innophos, Apple, and bastion technologies hiring at this level now.
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Exempt
QUALIFICATIONS
EDUCATION
- Bachelor’s degree in life sciences or related field from an accredited college or university
- Master’s degree in business or life sciences or related field preferred
EXPERIENCE
- Five years clinical research or equivalent experience in which three years are in Quality Assurance or Regulatory Compliance experience within an FDA regulated industry, preferably devices, diagnostics, or pharmaceuticals desirable
- Training experience in a clinical research setting
- Regulatory audit exposure with US-FDA preferred
LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS
Required
- Must have one of the following certifications: CCRP - Certified Clinical Research Professional (SOCRA) or CCRC - Certified Clinical Research Coordinator (ACRP) or CCRA - Certified Clinical Research Associate (ACRP) or ACRP-CP - Clinical Research Professional (ACRP)
SKILLS AND ABILITIES
- Demonstrates the skills and competencies necessary to safely perform the assigned job, determined through ongoing skills, competency assessments, and performance evaluations
- Sufficient proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing the English language necessary to perform the essential functions of this job, especially with regard to activities impacting patient or employee safety or security
- Ability to effectively communicate with patients, physicians, family members and co-workers in a manner consistent with a customer service focus and application of positive language principles
- Excellent working knowledge of FDA regulations and GCP guidelines
- Excellent working knowledge of the clinical trial operations
- Ability to identify and/or resolve quality issues/discrepancies with others in a proactive diplomatic, flexible, and constructive manner Ability to work in a team environment with effective leadership skills
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
PEOPLE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Facilitates open, professional (verbal, nonverbal, written) communication which includes active listening and teaching, to achieve mutual understanding, role modeling by example. Communication to promote both work efforts and problem resolution is clear, providing the highest quality service during every customer and patient encounter, as it relates to clinical research studies.
- Provides higher-level support to institutional investigators and other members of the research team, by providing education and training regarding processes and procedures governing clinical research activities which can be ad-hoc, remote/teleconferences, or face-to-face sessions with the entire research team.
- Serves as a subject matter expert and regulatory resource for department and institution as well as investigators and research staff regarding Institutional Review Board (IRB) and/or Institutional Animal Care and Use committees, current institutional policies, and state and federal laws related to research; provides solutions to study start-up and regulatory management.
- Teaches, orients and precepts, as appropriate, newly hired analysts. Uses peer-to-peer accountability towards improvement of department score for employee engagement.
SERVICE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Assists in identifying educational needs and creates/implements training courses or materials to assist in compliant research coordination and management.
- Assists Research Protections staff and HMRI administration, as needed, with pre-clinical and clinical research areas of need, including Research Credentialing, IRB, Institutional Care and Use Committee (IACUC), Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC), Radiation Safety Committee (RSC), and Hazardous Substance Committee (HSC), as appropriate. Provides timely feedback to stakeholders to facilitate swift and efficient process improvement.
- Evaluates site readiness based on HMRI standards prior to start date of a new clinical trial.
QUALITY/SAFETY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Performs and monitors feasibility assessments, ongoing quality assurance reviews of with pre-clinical and clinical research studies, with the goal of assessing site readiness and develop site-specific education and processes within specified research teams. May assess reviews of lower-level analysts.
- Monitors and evaluates ongoing quality and compliance standards, along with regulatory and clinical trial trends/actions, with regular reports to QA management. Assists with preparation and/or assists during regulatory inspections.
- Initiates goals and creates targets for Monitoring Assessment plans (MAPS). Assumes primary responsibility for implementing plan, organizing data, and reporting results to leadership.
- Utilizes sound judgement, using an analytical approach. Ensures implementation and teaching of department-based initiatives and standards of practice. Identifies trends and opportunities for corrective action and process improvement, providing recommendations.
FINANCE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Initiates cost saving ideas within the department and communicates recommendations to management.
- Utilizes resources with cost effectiveness and value creation in mind. Self-motivated to independently manage time effectively and prioritize daily tasks, assisting coworkers as needed.
GROWTH/INNOVATION ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Independently evaluates responses to monitoring and audit reports; partners with the research team to follow up with respondents, management, or others, if needed, to ensure resolution.
- Identifies and presents areas for innovation, efficiency, and improvement for department projects. Participates in one or more department committees or subcommittees and facilitates the accomplishment of the goals of the committee or subcommittee. Seeks opportunities to identify self-development needs and takes appropriate action. Ensures own career discussions occur with appropriate management. Completes and updates the My Development Plan on an ongoing basis.
SUPPLEMENTAL REQUIREMENTS
-
WORK ATTIRE
- Uniform: No
- Scrubs: No
- Business professional: Yes
- Other (department approved): Yes
- Note that employees may be required to be on-call during emergencies (ie. Disaster, Severe Weather Events, etc) regardless of selection below.
- On Call* No
- May require travel within the Houston Metropolitan area Yes
- May require travel outside Houston Metropolitan area No
ON-CALL*
TRAVEL**
**Travel specifications may vary by department**
EDUCATION
- Bachelor’s degree in life sciences or related field from an accredited college or university
- Master’s degree in business or life sciences or related field preferred
EXPERIENCE
- Five years clinical research or equivalent experience in which three years are in Quality Assurance or Regulatory Compliance experience within an FDA regulated industry, preferably devices, diagnostics, or pharmaceuticals desirable
- Training experience in a clinical research setting
- Regulatory audit exposure with US-FDA preferred
LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS
Required Must have one of the following certifications: CCRP - Certified Clinical Research Professional (SOCRA) or CCRC - Certified Clinical Research Coordinator (ACRP) or CCRA - Certified Clinical Research Associate (ACRP) or ACRP-CP - Clinical Research Professional (ACRP)
Company Profile:
Houston Methodist Academic Institute oversees the Education Institute and Research Institute. The Academic Institute aligns our research and education initiatives in service to the clinical mission, providing solutions that answer the call for new technologies and skills our clinicians need for patient care. Houston Methodist Education Institute coordinates our primary academic affiliation with Weill Cornell Medicine and other joint programs, including the Engineering Medicine Program at Texas A&M University Intercollegiate School of Engineering Medicine. The Education Institute also oversees continuing medical education and graduate medical education, and supports trainees in residence for medical, nursing, allied health and research education programs. Houston Methodist Research Institute supports research programs and infrastructure that enable faculty across the system to bring new scientific discoveries to patients as rapidly as possible through the full cycle of a cure from conceptual bench research, to prototyping and development, to clinical trials and FDA approval. The Research Institute supports clinical research protocols and extramurally funded translational research programs.
Houston Methodist is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Exempt
QUALIFICATIONS
EDUCATION
- Bachelor’s degree in life sciences or related field from an accredited college or university
- Master’s degree in business or life sciences or related field preferred
EXPERIENCE
- Five years clinical research or equivalent experience in which three years are in Quality Assurance or Regulatory Compliance experience within an FDA regulated industry, preferably devices, diagnostics, or pharmaceuticals desirable
- Training experience in a clinical research setting
- Regulatory audit exposure with US-FDA preferred
LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS
Required
- Must have one of the following certifications: CCRP - Certified Clinical Research Professional (SOCRA) or CCRC - Certified Clinical Research Coordinator (ACRP) or CCRA - Certified Clinical Research Associate (ACRP) or ACRP-CP - Clinical Research Professional (ACRP)
SKILLS AND ABILITIES
- Demonstrates the skills and competencies necessary to safely perform the assigned job, determined through ongoing skills, competency assessments, and performance evaluations
- Sufficient proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing the English language necessary to perform the essential functions of this job, especially with regard to activities impacting patient or employee safety or security
- Ability to effectively communicate with patients, physicians, family members and co-workers in a manner consistent with a customer service focus and application of positive language principles
- Excellent working knowledge of FDA regulations and GCP guidelines
- Excellent working knowledge of the clinical trial operations
- Ability to identify and/or resolve quality issues/discrepancies with others in a proactive diplomatic, flexible, and constructive manner Ability to work in a team environment with effective leadership skills
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
PEOPLE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Facilitates open, professional (verbal, nonverbal, written) communication which includes active listening and teaching, to achieve mutual understanding, role modeling by example. Communication to promote both work efforts and problem resolution is clear, providing the highest quality service during every customer and patient encounter, as it relates to clinical research studies.
- Provides higher-level support to institutional investigators and other members of the research team, by providing education and training regarding processes and procedures governing clinical research activities which can be ad-hoc, remote/teleconferences, or face-to-face sessions with the entire research team.
- Serves as a subject matter expert and regulatory resource for department and institution as well as investigators and research staff regarding Institutional Review Board (IRB) and/or Institutional Animal Care and Use committees, current institutional policies, and state and federal laws related to research; provides solutions to study start-up and regulatory management.
- Teaches, orients and precepts, as appropriate, newly hired analysts. Uses peer-to-peer accountability towards improvement of department score for employee engagement.
SERVICE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Assists in identifying educational needs and creates/implements training courses or materials to assist in compliant research coordination and management.
- Assists Research Protections staff and HMRI administration, as needed, with pre-clinical and clinical research areas of need, including Research Credentialing, IRB, Institutional Care and Use Committee (IACUC), Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC), Radiation Safety Committee (RSC), and Hazardous Substance Committee (HSC), as appropriate. Provides timely feedback to stakeholders to facilitate swift and efficient process improvement.
- Evaluates site readiness based on HMRI standards prior to start date of a new clinical trial.
QUALITY/SAFETY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Performs and monitors feasibility assessments, ongoing quality assurance reviews of with pre-clinical and clinical research studies, with the goal of assessing site readiness and develop site-specific education and processes within specified research teams. May assess reviews of lower-level analysts.
- Monitors and evaluates ongoing quality and compliance standards, along with regulatory and clinical trial trends/actions, with regular reports to QA management. Assists with preparation and/or assists during regulatory inspections.
- Initiates goals and creates targets for Monitoring Assessment plans (MAPS). Assumes primary responsibility for implementing plan, organizing data, and reporting results to leadership.
- Utilizes sound judgement, using an analytical approach. Ensures implementation and teaching of department-based initiatives and standards of practice. Identifies trends and opportunities for corrective action and process improvement, providing recommendations.
FINANCE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Initiates cost saving ideas within the department and communicates recommendations to management.
- Utilizes resources with cost effectiveness and value creation in mind. Self-motivated to independently manage time effectively and prioritize daily tasks, assisting coworkers as needed.
GROWTH/INNOVATION ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Independently evaluates responses to monitoring and audit reports; partners with the research team to follow up with respondents, management, or others, if needed, to ensure resolution.
- Identifies and presents areas for innovation, efficiency, and improvement for department projects. Participates in one or more department committees or subcommittees and facilitates the accomplishment of the goals of the committee or subcommittee. Seeks opportunities to identify self-development needs and takes appropriate action. Ensures own career discussions occur with appropriate management. Completes and updates the My Development Plan on an ongoing basis.
SUPPLEMENTAL REQUIREMENTS
-
WORK ATTIRE
- Uniform: No
- Scrubs: No
- Business professional: Yes
- Other (department approved): Yes
- Note that employees may be required to be on-call during emergencies (ie. Disaster, Severe Weather Events, etc) regardless of selection below.
- On Call* No
- May require travel within the Houston Metropolitan area Yes
- May require travel outside Houston Metropolitan area No
ON-CALL*
TRAVEL**
**Travel specifications may vary by department**
EDUCATION
- Bachelor’s degree in life sciences or related field from an accredited college or university
- Master’s degree in business or life sciences or related field preferred
EXPERIENCE
- Five years clinical research or equivalent experience in which three years are in Quality Assurance or Regulatory Compliance experience within an FDA regulated industry, preferably devices, diagnostics, or pharmaceuticals desirable
- Training experience in a clinical research setting
- Regulatory audit exposure with US-FDA preferred
LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS
Required Must have one of the following certifications: CCRP - Certified Clinical Research Professional (SOCRA) or CCRC - Certified Clinical Research Coordinator (ACRP) or CCRA - Certified Clinical Research Associate (ACRP) or ACRP-CP - Clinical Research Professional (ACRP)
Company Profile:
Houston Methodist Academic Institute oversees the Education Institute and Research Institute. The Academic Institute aligns our research and education initiatives in service to the clinical mission, providing solutions that answer the call for new technologies and skills our clinicians need for patient care. Houston Methodist Education Institute coordinates our primary academic affiliation with Weill Cornell Medicine and other joint programs, including the Engineering Medicine Program at Texas A&M University Intercollegiate School of Engineering Medicine. The Education Institute also oversees continuing medical education and graduate medical education, and supports trainees in residence for medical, nursing, allied health and research education programs. Houston Methodist Research Institute supports research programs and infrastructure that enable faculty across the system to bring new scientific discoveries to patients as rapidly as possible through the full cycle of a cure from conceptual bench research, to prototyping and development, to clinical trials and FDA approval. The Research Institute supports clinical research protocols and extramurally funded translational research programs.
Houston Methodist is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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Mid Level QA Specialist Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a mid level qa specialist job?
Position yourself around ownership, not just execution. Highlight projects where you designed or owned the test strategy, caught regressions before release, or improved a process. Employers at this level want to see that you work independently and influence quality outcomes. Tailor your resume to show scope and impact on the features or products you tested, not just the tools you used.
Which companies hire mid level qa specialists?
Companies hiring mid level qa specialists right now include Innophos, Apple, and bastion technologies, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026. Hiring at this level covers both product-focused tech companies and large enterprises in regulated industries that need specialists who can own quality across complex release cycles.
Are there remote mid level qa specialist jobs?
Yes, and a significant share of openings are fully remote or hybrid. About 20% of mid level qa specialist openings are remote or hybrid as of June 2026, reflecting sustained demand from employers who staff distributed engineering teams. Filtering by work setting on Migrate Mate lets you see only the openings that match your location preference.
How do I move up to a mid level qa specialist role?
The path from entry level to mid level is built on demonstrated ownership. Early in your career, focus on going deeper with automation frameworks, expanding beyond manual testing, and taking on full features rather than isolated test cases. Tracking and presenting measurable outcomes, such as defect reduction rates or coverage improvements, signals the readiness employers look for when promoting or hiring at the mid level.
Which industries hire the most mid level qa specialists?
Mid Level qa specialist roles concentrate in Technology & Software, Consulting & Professional Services, and Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026. These sectors drive strong hiring at the mid level because their release velocity and compliance requirements demand specialists who can own quality processes independently rather than just execute on someone else's test plan.