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Every QA that I have talked to says they are sicking of QAing and wished they could go back to MTing - All you QAs, tell me some of the neg/pos.

Posted: Oct 14, 2010

that you find working as QA? I know I have heard a few say that the MTs apparently do not look at their corrections and continue to make the same mistakes over and over which the QA continues to correct over and over regardless how many times the MT has been told.

Who loves QAing and who doesn't. Why for each?

p.s. been asked to be QA, but I am undecided.

QA - sm

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I love doing QA for many, many reasons. I love being able to use my knowledge to teach, to learn. It is nice to talk to MTs that are new to my account. I try very hard to let them know that I realize how ridiculously tedious the account specifics are, and I try to make myself readily available for questions. I love getting questions, actually. I also realize that I make mistakes, and when I do, I will let you know. I have no problem apologizing for messing up.

I do my best to understand that the MT is a person, just like me, and I expect the same in return.

My only one negative is that the MTs don't understand that we get audited as well on the jobs that we QA. I'm not talking about auditing, because at my company, QA does not do auditing. The MTs get upset at the nitpicking on feedback (I used to as well when I was an MT!), but I have to nitpick. If it is a job that I have to do 100% QA on, it is expected to be perfect according to the BOS, account specifics, etc., and I get marked off if it is not.

It's not fun to be told to your face (which I have on a couple of occasions) "I have no use for your feedback." That's fine. But, I have to send it anyway. It's my job, and I get called out on it if I don't.

I try to be uplifting in my feedback and not demeaning - no one wants to feel that way.

Anyway, bottom line, I love my job. It keeps me on my toes as far as all of the information that I get to research, and the resources that I have to continually refer to double and triple check the info that I put in a report and feedback. :-)

I loved doing QA. I stopped because so few - MeMT

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companies pay their QA by the hour anymore and I think that is totally wrong. I worked for a small company as QA and was paid hourly. That small company was bought by one of the monsters and plans were in the works to start paying QA per line.

QA people are paid to proofread, edit, correct, and educate. I'm supposed to do all that at 4 cpl? Nope, not me.

I tried finding another QA job that paid hourly, but openings were few and far between and a lot of the time companies promote from within which is a great policy, but not so great for someone on the outside.

Sooooooo, I went back to MTing. Since I think I've finally found a company I like, maybe I'll get the chance to move up to QA again in the future because I always loved that job. Who knows...

Agree. For 4 cpl, I am an editor. Period. Dont expect me to - email MTs with corrections and SM

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and explanations. If you insist, I insist on also recieving a trainers pay. I once worked on a new platform at a company and when I had questions, I was told "Try this" or "try that." Basically, I was developing the platform, I felt. Of course was just recieving edit pay so stopped working that platform.

I love QA'ing - Carol

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I have been a QA since I was out of MT school for a year and absolutely love it. Yes sometimes the MT's do make the same mistakes over and over, but it is your job to point those that are not implementing feedback to your supervisor. I love to mentor younger MT's and to help them become great MT's and that is what I get to do in this job! I say go for it!

Wow, you started QA after only 1 year of MT - ???

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I honestly don't mean for this to sound snarky, but how in the world can anybody do a good job at QA'ing when they're just 1 year out from MT school?

Maybe this is why some of my QA people drive me absolutely nuts. I've been an MT for over 30 years, and some of the "corrections" that my QA people make on my reports literally make my hair curl.

I started qa with no MT history but history of extensive work in - medical field. This was for small MTSO. nm

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QA editor - sad

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LOVE QA, BUT cannot make any money any more correcting every single errors, plus 100% proofing and retyping ELS doc MTs fly through to just finish and get it out the door PLUS read tons of old reports to try to fill in DX and meds PLUS send feedback to MTs that cannot afford the time to both with what I have sent since their rates have been cut to. Soooooo, bottom line...I used to LOVE LOVE QA and for $18/hour I busted my butt, filled in every humanly possible blank from old reports, researching, etc., whatever it took. Now companies want all that same work and my 15 years for pennies a line?? QA does not produce, we check, recheck, correct, make the report readable and billable.

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