Job Summary

We are looking for a Quality Assurance Engineer responsible for ensuring the quality, reliability, and compliance of battery packs, forklifts, and material handling equipment throughout incoming inspection, manufacturing, assembly, testing, and final dispatch.

Key Responsibilities

- Incoming Quality Assurance
- Inspect incoming raw materials, components, battery cells, BMS, connectors, cables, mechanical parts, electrical/electronic components, and bought-out assemblies.
- Prepare and maintain incoming inspection standards, specifications, sampling plans, and check sheets.
- Conduct supplier quality audits and evaluate supplier performance.
- Raise and monitor Supplier Corrective Action Requests (SCAR) for quality issues.
- Support supplier development and continuous quality improvement.
- Battery Pack Quality
- Perform quality inspection of battery packs and sub-assemblies.
- Verify battery cell/module assembly, busbars, connectors, wiring, insulation, torque, polarity, labeling, and mechanical assembly.
- Verify BMS installation, configuration, communication, alarms, protections, and basic functional parameters.
- Monitor battery pack testing such as voltage, current, insulation resistance, continuity, charging/discharging, and functional performance as applicable.
- Ensure compliance with approved drawings, BOMs, work instructions, specifications, and test procedures.
- Identify and investigate battery pack defects, including assembly, electrical, mechanical, and functional failures.
- Forklift Material Handling Equipment Quality
- Conduct in-process and final inspections of forklifts, pallet trucks,



stackers, reach trucks, AGVs/AMRs, and other material handling equipment.
- Inspect mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, and electronic assemblies.
- Verify critical parameters such as steering, braking, lifting/lowering, travel, load handling, safety interlocks, emergency stop, alarms, displays, and operator controls.
- Perform functional and performance testing according to approved test procedures.
- Ensure product conformity with engineering drawings, specifications, and applicable standards.
- Process Quality
- Conduct stage-wise inspections and audits on the production line.
- Establish quality checkpoints and control plans for critical processes.
- Monitor Critical-to-Quality (CTQ) characteristics and process parameters.
- Prepare and maintain PFMEA, Control Plan, SOPs, inspection standards, and quality check sheets.
- Implement mistake-proofing/Poka-Yoke wherever applicable.
- Identify process deviations and coordinate corrective actions with Production and Engineering.
- Testing Validation
- Develop and execute inspection and testing procedures for battery packs and material handling equipment.
- Maintain test records and ensure calibration of measuring and testing equipment.




- Support product validation, reliability testing, and endurance testing.
- Analyze test failures and coordinate root-cause investigations.
- Ensure traceability of critical components, battery packs, and finished products.
- Non-Conformance Root Cause Analysis
- Identify, document, segregate, and control non-conforming products.
- Lead root-cause analysis using 5 Why, Fishbone/Ishikawa, 8D, Pareto, and other quality tools .
- Implement and verify Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA).
- Monitor recurring defects and drive permanent corrective actions.
- Maintain NCR, rejection, rework, scrap, and defect data.
- Customer Quality
- Investigate customer complaints and field failures related to battery packs and material handling equipment.
- Coordinate with Service, Engineering, Production, and suppliers for complaint resolution.
- Prepare 8D reports and corrective-action reports.
- Monitor warranty/field failure trends and implement preventive actions.
- Support customer audits and quality reviews.
- Quality Systems Compliance
- Ensure adherence to the organization's QMS and applicable quality procedures.
- Support ISO 9001 implementation and internal/external audits.
- Maintain quality records, inspection reports, test reports, calibration records, and traceability documents.
- Support compliance with applicable battery, electrical, machinery, and material-handling equipment standards and customer requirements.
- Participate in continuous improvement initiatives.

This job is provided by Shine.com

📌 Quality Assurance Engineer (Pune)
🏢 ACURA SOLUTIONS
📍 Pune