Quality Assurance Managers

"Quality assurance manager recognize that quality is built into a product.  Quality cannot be inspected into a product.  Therefore, if a firm is going to make products of consistent quality, concern about quality outcomes permeates everyone's responsibilities.  The role of the quality assurance manager is to maintain everyone's awareness of the importance of quality to the firm and to coordinate efforts to produce and distribute products that incorporate the intrinsic quality level desired.  Quality assurance managers analyze product development and the production process and their relationships to product quality.  The more complete the quality manager's product knowledge, the better able he or she is to communicate quality priorities.  Quality assurance managers may work on site with vendors and factories to identify and resolve manufacturing problems"

(Kunz, (2005) Apparel Manufacturing, Prentice Hall, p. 118)