The Problem
Most technology organisations have testers. Fewer have QA strategy. Even fewer have someone accountable for the whole picture — test coverage, release confidence, team capability, governance, and the connection between quality and delivery risk. When that leadership gap exists, it doesn’t stay invisible for long.
What Is It
What the Fractional QA Director does
Our QA Director works with your organisation for a fixed number of days each month — typically between two and eight — operating as your senior QA leader. Not as a consultant who delivers a report and leaves. As the person accountable for QA strategy within your organisation.
In practice this means: setting and owning the QA strategy, establishing governance and quality gates, mentoring and developing the in-house QA team, reviewing test coverage and release confidence, and attending the leadership conversations where quality belongs.
2 days per month
4 days per month
6 days per month
8 days per month
Minimum recommended term: 3 months. Meaningful strategic change takes time. Engagements are month-to-month after the initial term with 30 days’ notice. Scale up or down as your needs change.
VERSUS HIRING
WHO IT’S FOR
✓ You have a QA team but no senior strategic leadership above them
✓ You’re scaling rapidly and quality is struggling to keep pace
✓ You’re in a regulated industry where QA governance is non-negotiable
✓ You’ve lost a senior QA leader and need cover while you hire
✓ You want senior oversight without the cost or commitment of a permanent hire
✓ You’re going through a cloud migration, platform change or major transformation
✗ You need a team of engineers to execute testing — see Testing as a Service
✗ You want a one-off assessment rather than ongoing leadership — see QA HealthCheck
✗ You need daily hands-on testing or automation delivery
WHO DELIVERS IT
Sanyam Kaushik spent 24 years as a QA leader inside HSBC, Deutsche Bank, UBS and BBC iPlayer — managing teams of 100+, running budgets of circa 4M, and leading quality across major transformation and greenfield regulatory programme. He founded IQspeaks to make that level of QA leadership available to organisations that need it, on terms that work for them.
Years in QA leadership
People in largest team
Annual budget managed
Defect leakage achieved
Regression effort reduced
Tell us where you are and we’ll tell you honestly if this is the right fit.
IQspeaks is a QA consultancy based in London, helping technology organisations build better testing functions through expert leadership, managed delivery, and independent assessment.
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