Quality Assurance Specialist (Keystone)

To qualify for a Quality Assurance Specialist (Keystone), your resume and supporting documentation must support:

A. Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience that equipped you with the particular competencies to successfully perform the duties of the position and is directly in or related to this position. To qualify at the GS-07 level, applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-05 level or equivalent under other pay systems in the Federal service, military or private sector. Applicants must meet eligibility requirements including minimum qualifications, and any other regulatory requirements by the cut-off/closing date of the announcement. Creditable specialized experience includes:

• Experience monitoring, controlling, or maintaining the quality of products or services in quality assurance, procurement, inspection, and production; OR
• Experience reviewing production activities and capabilities in light of contract quality requirements; OR
• Experience reviewing written quality or inspection procedures for adequacy and evaluating the implementation and effectiveness of quality/inspection systems, including sampling plans; OR
• Experience analyzing quality data to detect unsatisfactory trends or weaknesses in the quality/inspection system; OR
• Experience verifying by test or inspection, using sampling inspection or intensive product inspection techniques, that products comply with requirements prior to acceptance; OR
• Experience identifying inadequacies and requesting corrective action; OR
• Experience computing data, summarizing results, and preparing reports or charts depicting pertinent relationships using statistical methods; OR
• Experience investigating customer complaints and deficiency reports, and providing identification of causes to appropriate authorities; OR
• Experience reading, interpreting, and applying technical data such as blueprints, engineering drawings, product specifications, or technical manuals; OR
• Experience reviewing and evaluating supply systems operations and procedures through periodic audits and surveillance inspections.

B. Education Substitution: Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work. Education must be from a college or university accredited by an organization approved by the U.S. Department of Education. See http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/Search.aspx. If using education to meet basic qualifications, YOU MUST SUBMIT A TRANSCRIPT as supplemental documentation. To qualify based on education in lieu of specialized experience, you must possess: The major study must be in quality assurance, statistics, mathematics, production management, industrial management, computer science, engineering, engineering technology, physical sciences, textiles, or other fields related to the position.

• 1 full year of graduate level education or superior academic achievement.

C. Combination: Combinations of successfully completed post-high school education and experience may be used to meet total qualifications and may be computed by first determining the applicant's total qualifying experience as a percentage of the experience required for the grade level; then determining the applicant's education as a percentage of the education required for the grade level; and then adding the two percentages. The total percentages must equal at least 100 percent to qualify an applicant for that grade level. Only graduate education in excess of the amount required for the next lower grade level may be used to qualify applicants for positions at grade GS-07.