Hiring and working with an embedded QA consultant

Embedded QA and consulting

I work as a B2B consultant embedded in European product teams, remotely from Romania. These notes are written for the people on the other side of that arrangement: a Head of Engineering or delivery lead deciding whether to bring someone in, and how to tell if it is working.

They cover the questions that separate judgement from tool lists, what the first two weeks should produce, how handoffs work across time zones, and what a consultant should leave behind when the contract ends.

2 notes on embedded qa

P121 Aug 20267 min read
Hiring a functional QA consultant: questions that expose theatre
If you are buying QA help, a tool list tells you very little. These are the five questions I would ask a functional QA consultant, and what good and bad answers sound like.
P120 Aug 20267 min read
Remote B2B QA: embed without becoming a bottleneck
I join European product teams remotely, as a B2B contractor. This is how I keep stories, questions and release calls from queuing behind one person: me.

2 notes on embedded qa

Hiring a functional QA consultant: questions that expose theatre

Remote B2B QA: embed without becoming a bottleneck