Quality control and quality assurance are an integral part of every industry. Maintaining, designing and controlling quality strategies and quality management systems, that is what forms the basic principles of total quality management and so forms the foundation stone of QA/QC engineer job description. In on shore organization, QA/QC engineer job description also consists of providing support to the QA/QC coordinator for ensuring that all risk factors have been scientifically assessed. QA/QC engineers are at the helm of project management procedures, especially in the oil and gas sector. In the concluding stages of a project and frequently during project execution phase, QA/QC engineers visit working sites to check if all required standards of quality are followed. There is a fine line dividing work responsibilities of QA engineer job description and QC engineer job description.

While quality assurance (QA) engineers predominantly focus on checking quality of products/services and project execution, quality control (QC) engineers brainstorm to chalk out effective quality control plans so that quality is never compromised and risk factors are nullified, to the minimum possible extent.