Senior Manager, QA
Employment Information
Report this job
Job expired or something wrong with this job?
Job Description
Senior Manager QA at Fortrea, a clinical research organization, leading external audits, inspections, and quality improvement. Remote role based in North Carolina.
Responsibilities:
- Oversee and lead execution of client audits, for-cause audits, and inspection activities
- Provide strategic oversight for complex or high-risk external audit and inspection activities
- Lead readiness planning, stakeholder engagement, response strategy, escalation management, and leadership communication
- Partner with regional and functional leaders on key initiatives as a Quality SME
- Ensure functional implementation, use, and review of SOPs
- Interpret applicable quality regulations and standards and ensure policies and procedures are revised or created
- Communicate escalation issues to management and lead solutions, including preventative actions and risk mitigation
- Lead functional process improvement initiatives using data analysis, metrics, and dashboards
- Lead interactions with clients and regulatory agencies
- Represent Fortrea during external meetings, conferences, and seminars as an industry SME
- Recruit, train, coach, and develop leaders
- Mentor RC and QA resources and manage performance and workload across multiple sites or geographic locations
- Perform other duties as assigned
Requirements:
- 10+ years of specialized GxP auditing, quality assurance, regulatory inspection support, external audit hosting, or related clinical research quality experience
- At least 5 years of experience leading, managing, hosting, or coordinating sponsor audits, regulatory inspections, or for-cause audits preferred
- Demonstrated experience providing senior-level oversight of audit findings, response strategies, root cause rationale, corrective actions, CAPAs, evidence, escalation and closure activities
- Experience leading cross-functional teams, managing complex stakeholder expectations, presenting leadership, and driving audit or inspection readiness strategy
- Previous line management experience including performance management, coaching, and workload management, with the ability to lead and support teams across multiple sites or geographic locations
- A bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences is preferred, or equivalent Life Science experience
- Experience and regulatory expertise in industry quality systems and standards, including the ability to interpret applicable regulations and use data to lead process improvement initiatives
- Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship
- Ability to access and use a variety of computer software developed both in-house and off-the-shelf
- Regular and consistent attendance
- Varied hours may be required
- Occasional drives to site locations with occasional domestic and international travel
Benefits:
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Short-term disability (STD) and long-term disability (LTD)
- 401(K)
- Paid time off (PTO) or flexible time off (FTO)
- Company bonus where applicable
- Regular, full-time or part-time employees working 20 or more hours per week are eligible for comprehensive benefits
Similar Jobs
Principal QA Engineer – QA Manager
Principal QA Engineer owning automation, performance testing, and release quality for BTSE’s fintech and blockchain trading systems. Improving testing with AI across high-volume exchange infrastructure.
Senior QA Analyst
Senior QA Analyst applying AI-powered automation and intelligent tooling to test Meevo, Millennium Systems International’s salon and wellness management software. Improving quality across web, API, and CI/CD workflows.
Junior Quality Assurance Specialist
Quality assurance specialist evaluating software quality, metrics, and lifecycle procedures. Supporting government and commercial IT solutions with federal-clearance eligibility.
Senior QA Engineer – Web, Mobile
Senior Manual QA Engineer testing web and mobile payment journeys for an international FinTech company. Validating APIs, transactions, onboarding, settlement, and compliance-sensitive workflows.
QA Lead
QA Lead building Playwright automation for Baselane’s landlord banking platform. Coaching testers and embedding quality across AI-first financial software delivery.
QA Analyst – Banca
QA Analyst validando reglas de tarificación y funcionalidades de seguros para Coderio, empresa de soluciones digitales escalables. Diseño de pruebas funcionales, regresión y validaciones PostgreSQL/SQL antes de producción.
QA Manager – Data Warehouse Testing
QA Manager leading data warehouse, ETL, and data quality testing for an Azure-Databricks platform. Managing nearshore QA resources while developing hands-on Python and SQL automation.
Supplier Quality Engineer
Supplier Quality Engineer reviewing nuclear supplier quality programs, COC packages, and audits. Ensuring compliance and reliability of safety-related components and materials.
Senior Specialist, Supplier Quality Engineer – Composites
Senior Supplier Quality Engineer leading quality improvement for L3Harris aerospace composite suppliers. Assessing processes, mitigating risks, and supporting missile production through extensive field travel.
Senior QA Engineer
Senior QA Engineer testing 99Bright Minds’ client web and mobile platforms. Automating UI/API quality processes and validating Arabic-English accessibility, security, and performance.
Quality Engineer
Quality Engineer validating Adobe marketing journeys, campaigns, and customer data for Nortal’s global digital transformation clients. Remote LATAM role supporting reliable enterprise marketing technology.
Senior QA Manual Engineer
Senior QA Manual Engineer testing web, mobile, API, and database systems for CodeRoad, a technology execution partner. Driving defect resolution and mentoring QA engineers.
QA Engineer
QA Engineer ensuring quality of finanzen.net zero, a German investment and trading platform. Automating web, mobile, and API tests across AWS CI/CD pipelines.
Team Lead – Senior Technical QA, Architecture, BIM, or Construction Delivery Background
Technical QA team lead guiding construction technology and AI-assisted workflows at Oliant. Reviewing construction deliverables, mentoring QA specialists, and improving remote project delivery quality.
Junior Technical QA Associate – Architecture, Engineering Background
Junior Technical QA Associate reviewing drawings, 3D models, and AI-tagged data for Oliant’s digital building delivery workflows. Remote contractor role for Philippines-based fresh graduates.
QA Engineer
QA Engineer ensuring quality of finanzen.net zero, a German fintech investment and trading platform. Automating web, mobile, and API tests across Cypress, Java, and AWS CI/CD.
Clinical Quality Assurance Coordinator
Clinical Quality Assurance Coordinator reviewing peer-review reports for MES Solutions’ independent medical examination and peer-review services. Ensuring clinical accuracy, regulatory compliance, and report quality remotely.
QA Engineer – Manual & Automation
QA Engineer building Playwright and TypeScript automation for Sonatafy’s nearshore software solutions. Balancing manual QA, API testing, CI/CD integration, and defect reporting.
QA Engineer – Wearables, Mobile, Cloud
QA Engineer owning quality for a wearable health-technology platform. Testing firmware, mobile SDKs, APIs, cloud processing, and apps while building automation and release reliability.
QA I – Coding Operations
QA specialist auditing HCC medical coding for Cotiviti’s risk adjustment operations. Coaching coders, reviewing accuracy, and supporting compliance and remediation.