IT Quality Assurance and Compliance Analyst

Job Description

Company Description

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate.

Eurofins is dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across the entire network of Eurofins companies.

We’re proud to be an armed forces-friendly place to work and welcome applications from reservists, armed forces veterans (including the wounded, injured and sick), as well as cadet instructors, and military spouses and partners.

If you want to continue to help make our world a safer and healthier place, then apply for the role below and become a part of the extraordinary Eurofins network.

Job Description

Working hours are Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm.

Hybrid working is available.

As a QA and Compliance Analyst at Eurofins Food and Water Testing UK, you will play a pivotal role in supporting the rollout of the next-generation Laboratory Information Management System across 18 laboratories in the UK and Ireland. You will be responsible for analysing business processes, understanding LIMS functionalities, and designing functional, risk-based test scenarios to ensure system quality, compliance, and fitness for purpose.

Working as part of a large and dynamic IT team, you will collaborate with business units across the UK and Ireland (primarily in the UK) to identify the bugs/issues, gaps in the systems you test and make sure they are corrected before they are onboarded to any lab/sites. Your focus will be on laboratories and LIMS systems, where you will play a crucial role in and replacing legacy LIMS systems.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience working cross-functionally with internal teams and external affiliates to ensure systems are compliant with ISO/IEC 17025, ISO 9001, and GxP standards, while supporting the rollout and validation of our LIMS application and its integrated systems.

Main Duties

• Lead and coordinate testing activities to ensure compliance and fitness for purpose of eLIMS NG and integrated peripheral systems (e.g., EOL, CRM, ComLIMS).
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to analyse and validate LIMS system functionalities in line with regulatory and quality standards.
• Design and execute comprehensive test scenarios and test cases based on functional understanding and compliance requirements.
• Document, track, and report bugs, system issues, and non-conformities, ensuring closure prior to quality sign-off.
• Partner with business teams to support OQ (Operational Qualification) testing, preparing compliant documentation for audit readiness.
• Perform end-to-end testing of the LIMS application prior to lab onboarding to ensure system readiness and data integrity.
• Proactively identify risks, inconsistencies, and deviations from standards, driving continuous improvement in system and process quality.
• Maintain structured documentation to support audit trails, inspections, and internal/external audits.

Qualifications

• Proven experience coordinating IT QA and business audits/inspections with reference to ISO/IEC 17025, ISO 9001, and GxP standards.
• Preferable to have strong knowledge of LIMS systems and system validation principles (GxP, GAMP5).
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a sharp eye for detail and compliance gaps.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills to liaise with technical teams, business stakeholders, and auditors.
• Ability to engage constructively, challenge assumptions, and advocate for quality-driven decisions.
• Highly organised, proactive, and capable of managing multiple priorities in a regulated environment.
• Experience working in regulated laboratory or clinical environments is highly desirable.

Additional Information

Benefits

At Eurofins we are growing, innovating and always learning. We celebrate the achievements of our employees through annual long service awards, recognise our colleagues special life events, and we are committed to charitable causes through global fundraising activities.

As a Eurofins employee you will benefit from:

• Life Assurance (4 times annual salary)
• Holiday Purchase Scheme
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Pay Scheme
• Company Pension Plan
• Employee Assistance Programme – ²⁴⁄₇ confidential support.
• Free car parking
• Worldwide career opportunities
• Everyone who joins our team also gets access to Perkbox, allowing you to save money all year round. Whether its supermarket savings or days out, the daily coffee or a summer holiday – there’s something to suit everyone’s lifestyle.

What Happens Next

Our people are the backbone of what we do, so it’s incredibly important we find the right individuals to join us. As a potential new recruit you’ll be invited to meet the team in the form of an assessment centre or a staged interview process dependent on the role and it’s requirements, this will give you the opportunity to see what working for Eurofins is really like and enable us to get you know your key skills and strengths.

Your data

As part of any recruitment process, the company collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants. The company is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data and to meeting its data protection obligations.

Closing Date

We reserve the right to close or extend this position depending on application numbers. Therefore we would urge candidates to submit an application as early as possible.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive please be aware that if you do not receive a response within 4 weeks of the vacancy expiry date unfortunately, on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.

We support your development! Do you feel you don’t match 100% of the requirements? Don’t hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.

We embrace diversity! Eurofins network of companies believe in strength and innovation through diversity, being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.

Sustainability matters to us! We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025, through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives we also count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!

Find out more in our career page: https://careers.eurofins.com/