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Fractional Leadership

Quality strategy, release confidence and the leadership to make both stick, as a focused assessment, a defined project or a fractional role.

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01Scope

What it covers.

  • Quality strategy

    What quality means for your product, who owns it, and how “good enough to ship” gets decided.

  • Organisational maturity

    Where the organisation stands across nine dimensions, and which one is setting the ceiling.

  • Test architecture

    Testing designed around your product’s risks and system boundaries, so a green build says what is safe to release.

  • Release confidence

    A release decision that can point to what was verified and what was not.

  • CI/CD

    Pipelines and feedback loops that tell the team quickly whether a change is safe to ship.

  • Fractional leadership

    Sustained direction across quality and delivery, without a full-time hire.

02Offers

How we can
work on it.

Each offer starts with a problem you need to solve. We agree the scope, outputs and measures of success around your priorities.

  • Quality & delivery improvement

    More reliable releases. Faster, more useful feedback.

    When it applies: Fragile tests, repeated manual checks or slow pipelines are making changes harder to release, and problems still reach customers.

    See the full offer: Quality & delivery improvement

  • Fractional quality & delivery leadership

    Senior direction, with hands-on follow-through.

    When it applies: You need sustained leadership across quality and delivery, but aren’t ready for a full-time hire, or need experienced support through a period of change.

    See the full offer: Fractional quality & delivery leadership

03Evidence

Case studies from
leadership roles.

Examples from my employed leadership roles, with the starting point, my contribution and measured outcomes.

  1. Case study 01

    Sustaining quality across two mobile apps and their content delivery platform.

    I led quality across The Economist and Espresso apps and the content delivery platform behind them. Close collaboration with product and engineering, layered automation, integration testing and physical-device coverage made performance, stability and release readiness easier to assess.

    Context
    The Economist · 2021–2025 · Senior QA/QE Manager, mobile and content delivery
    Result
    The team established automated regression execution of approximately 1–2 hours for the flagship app, alongside integration coverage and physical-device checks. The earlier regression cycle took approximately 4–5 days; these describe different scopes of work and are not a like-for-like timing comparison.

    Quality Engineering & Fractional Leadership, Test automation, Integration testing, Device testing

  2. Case study 02

    Modernising quality engineering at a UK property-technology company.

    Leading QA across the UK and EMEA, I drove an automation transformation spanning desktop and API testing. We replaced legacy TestArchitect automation with FlaUI, reduced regression execution from 15 hours to 1–2 hours, and introduced a Playwright API testing framework covering 100% of endpoints.

    Context
    Reapit · 2025–2026 · Head of QA, UK & EMEA
    Result
    The clearest outcome was faster regression feedback, supported by comprehensive API endpoint coverage and a more consistent approach to Quality Engineering across distributed teams.

    Quality Engineering & Fractional Leadership, Quality engineering leadership, Automation modernisation, Desktop and API testing, Quality strategy and governance, Distributed team leadership

  3. Case study 03

    Clearing the way for a release train at an AI-native language-technology platform.

    Code changes lost much of their time to manual handovers and constant rebasing. I measured where the time went and planned a release train. In QA’s part, which I lead, the share of Playwright test runs passing without a retry roughly doubled; the train itself has not run yet.

    Context
    An AI-native language-technology platform · 2026 · Head of Customer Trust
    Result
    Between August and late September, the share of Playwright test runs that passed without a retry roughly doubled, while more tests checked each build. By early October the Playwright test stage took less than half as long as in August and September.

    Quality Engineering & Fractional Leadership, Test reliability, CI/CD, Delivery flow, Engineering leadership

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