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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “QA Technician (Quality Assurance Technician)” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“QA Technician (Quality Assurance Technician)” will maybe be replaced by AI.

Based on the cognitive demands, communication requirements, and logical reasoning intrinsic to this occupation according to O*NET data, we project a 56% probability of disruption by generative AI and Large Language Models.

Automation & Robot Risk

54%

“QA Technician (Quality Assurance Technician)” will maybe be replaced by robots.

Evaluating the physical dexterity, repetitive motion tasks, and manual labor associated with this role, our analysis indicates a 54% likelihood of substitution by advanced robotics systems.

Personal & Financial Insights

Every occupation has a unique profile. For Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and O*NET classify the day-to-day work broadly as: Inspect, test, sort, sample, or weigh nonagricultural raw materials or processed, machined, fabricated, or assembled parts or products for defects, wear, and deviations from specifications. May use precision measuring instruments and complex test equipment.

Avg. Annual Salary $51,670
Avg. Hourly Wage $24.84
Available Jobs (US) 591,180
Job Title & Hierarchy Code (SOC) Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers #51-9061
Wage vs. National Median
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Data is based on the reference occupation: “Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers”

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Core Skills & Abilities

  • Disassemble defective parts or components, such as inaccurate or worn gauges or measuring instruments.

  • Analyze test data, making computations as necessary, to determine test results.

  • Make minor adjustments to equipment, such as turning setscrews to calibrate instruments to required tolerances.

  • Record inspection or test data, such as weights, temperatures, grades, or moisture content, and quantities inspected or graded.

  • Adjust, clean, or repair products or processing equipment to correct defects found during inspections.

  • Write test or inspection reports describing results, recommendations, or needed repairs.

  • Monitor machines that automatically measure, sort, or inspect products.

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

  • Inspect, test, or measure materials, products, installations, or work for conformance to specifications.

  • Remove defects, such as chips, burrs, or lap corroded or pitted surfaces.

  • Fabricate, install, position, or connect components, parts, finished products, or instruments for testing or operational purposes.

  • Stack or arrange tested products for further processing, shipping, or packaging.

  • Interpret legal requirements, provide safety information, or recommend compliance procedures to contractors, craft workers, engineers, or property owners.

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

  • Administer tests to assess whether engineers or operators are qualified to use equipment.

  • Check arriving materials to ensure that they match purchase orders, submitting discrepancy reports as necessary.

  • Read blueprints, data, manuals, or other materials to determine specifications, inspection and testing procedures, adjustment methods, certification processes, formulas, or measuring instruments required.

  • Discard or reject products, materials, or equipment not meeting specifications.

  • Weigh materials, products, containers, or samples to verify packaging weights or ingredient quantities.

  • Monitor production operations or equipment to ensure conformance to specifications, making necessary process or assembly adjustments.

  • Collect or select samples for testing or for use as models.

  • Measure dimensions of products to verify conformance to specifications, using measuring instruments, such as rulers, calipers, gauges, or micrometers.

  • Inspect or test raw materials, parts, or products to determine compliance with environmental standards.

  • Compare colors, shapes, textures, or grades of products or materials with color charts, templates, or samples to verify conformance to standards.

  • Compute defect percentages or averages, using formulas and calculators.

  • Clean, maintain, calibrate, or repair measuring instruments or test equipment, such as dial indicators, fixed gauges, or height gauges.

  • Mark items with details, such as grade or acceptance-rejection status.

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

  • Read dials or meters to verify that equipment is functioning at specified levels.

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

  • Grade, classify, or sort products according to sizes, weights, colors, or other specifications.

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  • Microsoft Excel
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  • Wilcox Associates PC-DMIS Inspection Planner
  • Mistral (Mistral AI)
  • Microsoft Visio
  • Label inspection systems
  • Autodesk AutoCAD
  • Computer-aided inspection software
  • Sight Machine AI
  • Mastercam computer-aided design and manufacturing software
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  • Apache Hive
  • Dassault Systemes SolidWorks
  • Data analysis software
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  • SAP software
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  • Cognex Vision AI
  • Statistical process control SPC data collection devices
  • Mastercam Design
  • Verisurf Metrology
  • Database software
  • Tolerance analysis software
  • R
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  • Computer assisted design software
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  • Selenium
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  • Laser shearography flaw detectors
  • Plotters
  • Linear or mixed signal equipment
  • Resistivity meters
  • Moisture meters
  • Height gauges
  • Backplane testers
  • Bit error rate testers BERT
  • Overhead cranes
  • Verisurf CMM Master
  • Radiographic flaw detectors
  • Hardness testers
  • Direct current DC power testers
  • Fatigue testers
  • Resonance acceleration instruments
  • Shock testers
  • Hydraulic pumps
  • Environmental chambers
  • Digital resistance meters
  • Logic test systems
  • Verisurf 3Dgage
  • Holographic interferometers
  • Beta gauges
  • Sampling oscilloscopes
  • Signal generators
  • Optical comparators
  • Gloss meters
  • Industrial bench scales
  • Mass flow leak testers
  • Conductivity meters
  • Pin gauges
  • Sorting machines
  • Measuring microscopes
  • Manufacturing defect analyzers MDA
  • Penetrant flaw detectors
  • Micrometers
  • Printed circuit board PCB testers
  • Personal computers
  • Digital voltmeters DVM
  • Verisurf Master3DGage
  • Accelerometers
  • Calipers
  • Strain gauges
  • Bubble leak testers
  • Return loss calibrator RLC passive component testers
  • Capacitive acceleration instruments
  • Digital resistance thermometers
  • Resistance meters
  • Forklifts
  • Piezoelectric acceleration instruments
  • Eddy current probes
  • Optical gauges
  • Multimeters
  • Frequency counters
  • Impact toughness testers
  • Pi tapes
  • Magnetic induction acceleration instruments
  • Magnetic particle flaw detectors
  • Ammeters
  • Eddy current flaw detectors
  • Calorimetric leak testers
  • Continuity testers
  • Pulse generators
  • Tensile testers
  • Compression testers
  • In-circuit testers
  • Power meters
  • Ductility testers
  • Depth gauges
  • Plug gauges
  • Metallurgical microscopes
  • Creep and stress relaxation testers
  • Function generators
  • Utrasonic flaw detectors
  • Digital multimeters
  • Hipot testers
  • Shear testers
  • Impact hammers
  • Laser thickness gauges
  • Vibration and shaker systems
  • Color spectrometers
  • Hydraulic lifts
  • Null-balance acceleration instruments
  • Thread gauges
  • Viscometers
  • Force transducers
  • Coordinate measuring machines CMM
  • Frequency meters

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