{"id":4057926,"url":"https://alion.io/job/gsk-qa-student-intern","title":"QA Student Intern","company":{"id":6649,"name":"GSK","domain":"gsk.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/gsk","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":86,"open_postings":60,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.733,"repost_share":0.017,"time_to_fill_p50_days":16,"computed_at":"2026-11-11T05:49:22Z"}},"role":"Early Careers","role_family":"Early Careers","seniority":"intern","employment_type":"internship","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":["Mississauga, Canada"],"countries":["CA"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":2,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"GMP","optional":false},{"name":"Outlook","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-10T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-10","last_verified_at":"2026-11-11T06:24:27Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"Are you a curious, collaborative scientific professional who wants to build trusted relationships with oncology clinicians and help improve patient care across Canada?\nGSK remains committed to achieving bold commercial ambitions for the future. By 2031, we aim to deliver £40 billion in annual sales, leveraging our existing strong performance momentum to significantly increase our positive impact on the health of billions of patients globally. Our Ahead Together strategy is centred on early intervention to prevent and alter the course of disease, thereby protecting people and supporting healthcare systems.\nOur diverse portfolio consists of vaccines, specialty medicines, and general medicines.\nThrough continuous innovation and a dedicated focus on scientific and technical excellence, we strive to develop and launch new, groundbreaking treatments that address critical health challenges.\nAre you looking for an opportunity to support a Quality Management team in the day to day operations in a local operating company responsible for importation and distribution of pharmaceuticals? If so, this is the role for you.\nAs Operational Quality Assurance Staff you will be responsible for supporting the local operating company manager to implement and maintain and effective and robust quality management system. You will also perform day to day quality operations to ensure lean and efficient ways of working to meet compliance standards.\nPLEASE NOTE: A PREFERRED CANDIDATE HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED\nKey Responsibilities\nThis role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following:\nExecute and deliver quality objectives, quality improvement plan, and trends against the quality key performance indicators to drive continuous improvement\nMonitor quality performance and key performance indicators to ensure quality and compliance issues are identified, communicated, and resolved\nSupport the local change control process to ensure all planned changes are effectively and compliantly managed\nPerform activities to support the risk management process to ensure effective management, timely reporting, review and escalation of quality risks\nDevelop local processes to conduct root cause analysis; identify where corrective/preventative actions plans are required and ensure they are effectively implemented, monitored, and closed out\nSupport the complaints management process to ensure potential issues are determined quickly, linked to the adverse events, reported, and follow up on product complaints\nSupport the Quality Manager to ensure that an effective local product incident process is in place and manage any product quality related issues and train staff as appropriate\nWork daily to support systems that have an impact on the quality of imported products and the products are in line with the quality management system\nLiaison with manufacturing sites to ensure compliance to local registered technical details\nEnsure the timely release of imported finished goods deliveries and resolve quality-related issues from deliveries\nEnsure all product specifications and related documents are maintained and compliant to current registered details\nSupport Quality Manager in ensuring product storage and distribution performed by third party warehousing and distribution service providers complies with GSK standards\nEnsure as appropriate documentation of batch records and retention of samples\nWhy you?\nBasic Qualifications: \nWe are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:\nBachelor’s degree\n2+ years’ experience within the Pharmaceutical/Consumer Healthcare industries\nExperience in quality assurance systems particularly in the areas of documentation management, batch release, product incidents, process performance indicators and performing self-inspection\nExperience with regulatory requirements pertaining to good manufacturing practices and good documentation practices\nExperience working with effective quality documentation systems\nPreferred Qualifications: \nIf you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:\nPrevious role as a quality associate or specialist\nGood written and verbal communication skills\nAnalytical thinker with good attention to detail and problem-solving skills in a structured process\nTeam player with the ability to work independently and in cross-functional team\nAbility to multi-task and work under pressure\nIdentify areas of continuous improvement and innovative ways of working\nAbility to demonstrate flexible thinking\nStrong general computer literacy with Intermediate skills in Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point and Outlook\nWorking Model\nThis role is based in Canada and is hybrid out of our Mississauga location. You will combine on-site collaboration with flexible remote work.\nReady to apply?\nWe welcome applications from people who bring scientific curiosity, collaboration and a patient-centered mindset. If this role aligns with your experience and purpose, please apply now. We look forward to learning how you can help get ahead of disease together.\nSkills\nData Integrity, Detail-Oriented, Digital Fluency, GxP Regulations, Lean Management, Pharmaceutical Regulatory Compliance, Problem Solving, Quality Assurance (QA), Risk Awareness, Technical WritingIn compliance with Ontario's provincial pay transparency legislation in Canada, this job posting includes a salary range to support equitable and informed hiring practices. The annual pay rate for new hires in this position ranges from CAD$31,980 to CAD$79,950 taking into account a number of factors including work location within the Canadian market, education level (e.g., Undergrad / Masters / MBA etc.) and based on the experience required for the role. GSK is dedicated to promoting transparency and fairness throughout our recruitment process. Salary ranges for other locations are shown because some markets have pay transparency laws that require salary information on job postings, and those locations are potential job sites for this role. If salary ranges are not displayed in the job posting for a specific location or country, the relevant compensation will be discussed during the recruitment process.Why GSK?\nUniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.\nGSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases - to impact health at scale.\nPeople and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.\nGSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law. GSK is committed to accommodating persons with disabilities. If you need accommodation at any stage of the application process or want more information on our accommodation policies, please contact us at . Please do not send resumes to this e-mail and instead apply through the online application process of this posting.\nImportant notice to Employment businesses/ Agencies\nGSK does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact GSK's commercial and general procurement/human resources department to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to GSK. The obtaining of prior written authorization is a condition precedent to any agreement (verbal or written) between the employment business/ agency and GSK. In the absence of such written authorization being obtained any actions undertaken by the employment business/agency shall be deemed to have been performed without the consent or contractual agreement of GSK. GSK shall therefore not be liable for any fees arising from such actions or any fees arising from any referrals by employment businesses/agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site.","description_format":"text","description_chars":8939,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":2,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Canada","iso":"CA","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Prescription Drugs","Vaccines","Oncology Therapeutics","Infectious Disease Therapeutics"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-11T06:24:27Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":16,"reasons":["conf:2","win:early","comp:junior,brand"],"computed_at":"2026-11-11T08:35:46Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/gsk-qa-student-intern","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/gsk-qa-student-intern.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-11T08:35:46Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":13823,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-12T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":6649},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=6649"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fgsk-qa-student-intern"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fgsk-qa-student-intern"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fgsk-qa-student-intern"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/gsk-qa-student-intern\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fgsk-qa-student-intern"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":4057926}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"gsk.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":4057926},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}