Quality Engineering career? Does it make sense to pursue a Master's Degree?

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I received my Bachelor’s in Biomedical Engineering from a very good engineering school.
I have worked as a Quality Engineer for 2 years now for a really big medical device company and I really like it.

However I cannot see my future with this company for longer than a few years due to personal reasons, even though I love the work there. (I have to relocate to central Massachusetts with the fiancee). All I have ever thought about as a career till now is medical devices but it seems like there are not many medical device companies in central MA other than small start ups. (I want to avoid the start up environment if I can).

so I have 2 questions:
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I really like working in quality but I am afraid I might have a tough time finding a job.
I want to know from your experience what industries would hire a Quality Engineer other than medical devices? Are skills of risk management in a highly regulated field of medical devices transferable to other lines of work?

I have a lot of free time in my hands now, and I am missing the feeling of being in school and learning new things at a fast pace, so I am thinking it’s time to start grad school…?

So my second part of the question is…what are your thoughts on pursuing a Master’s degree fully online at an OK university (not a big recognized name) that is in a different state?
I have been thinking about Industrial Engineering programs to try to widen my resume a bit outside of medical devices.
Or going for a Quality and Compliance Masters?

Thank you all for your time.

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That was more than two questions, despite several attempts to divide it into such.

All of them. Seriously, every company over a certain size will have people working on quality assurance and/or quality control.

They are, the only issue is going to be your familiarity with the components to be tested and the tools needed to do so.

Feet-on-campus is going to be more effective for learning AND be more highly regarded than an online degree from the same school in almost every case. Whether or not an online degree is better or worse than a brick-and-mortar degree from a different school depends a lot on the schools and the situation. The degree you can get is always superior to the degree you cannot get!

Both sound like reasonable options if you are pretty set on quality engineering.