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A Qualitätsauditor (TÜV) brings practical skill in audit planning, interview-led evidence gathering, nonconformity analysis, and clear reporting. It fits quality management systems, supplier audits, and internal or external audit work. Find vetted freelancers with this certificate fast and precisely.
About the certification
What it proves
A Qualitätsauditor (TÜV) certificate shows that a professional can assess whether processes and results meet defined quality requirements. In practice, this is the kind of person companies bring in for internal audits, supplier reviews, and preparation for external audits. The German term is often searched together with the English phrase Quality Auditor (TÜV).
Core skills
The certificate is usually associated with hands-on audit work, not theory alone.
- Planning and structuring an audit
- Interviewing process owners and collecting objective evidence
- Spotting gaps, risks, and nonconformities
- Writing clear findings and corrective-action notes
- Following up on improvements without losing independence
Typical profiles
People with this certificate often work in quality management, production, procurement, logistics, or regulated service environments. Some are internal auditors who check their own organization’s processes. Others support suppliers, prepare teams for certification audits, or step in for project-based quality work in Germany where clear documentation and structured communication matter.
Knowledge areas
A certified Qualitätsauditor (TÜV) should understand the logic behind quality management systems and audit methods.
- Audit principles, planning, and reporting
- Process orientation and risk awareness
- Corrective and preventive actions
- Document review and traceability
- Communication with audited teams and management
What it means for companies
For companies, this certificate signals a freelancer who can work methodically, challenge processes in a fair way, and keep findings usable for improvement. That is valuable when an audit must be prepared under time pressure or when an external auditor will soon review the organization. In Germany, the certificate is especially relevant when teams need someone who can switch between on-site interviews and remote document review.
When to use it
This certificate matters most where quality controls, supplier reliability, and process compliance directly affect delivery. It is a strong fit for manufacturing, automotive supply chains, technical services, healthcare-adjacent environments, and any organization building or maintaining a quality management system. If you need a freelancer who can audit calmly, document cleanly, and speak the language of quality work, a Qualitätsauditor (TÜV) is a solid signal.
Meet FRATCH Qualitätsauditor (TÜV)
Bruno Petrovic
Independent Consultant for Digital Products & Processes
Last position:
Product Owner
Concept and implementation of a unified-commerce platform for SMEs for selling and building multi-product bundles
Successes: On-time concept, delivery, and customer acceptance of a 100% functional, CPQ-based buy flow process for configuring and selling multi-product bundles within the given 90-day time frame. Successfully tested integration of various interface services for the following areas: customer search, customer data enrichment, address validation, service qualification, phone number validation, credit check, appointment selection, and quote-to-order transition.
Responsibilities:
- Strategic target delivery: deriving and implementing strategic customer goals (e.g. release content, business value).
- Backlog management: creating and refining backlog items (initiatives, epics, user stories, defects) in close coordination with the project team and customer.
- Prioritization & releases: responsibility for prioritizing the product backlog and delivering defined release goals.
- Deliverable tracking: tracking work results on both the supplier and customer side.
- Roadmap & release planning: developing and implementing roadmaps and release plans together with the customer.
- Scope responsibility: responsibility for the contractually agreed scope of services.
- Claim management: active claim and change management toward the customer.
- Team coordination: steering and coordinating the development team.
- Using synergies: making use of synergies between customer projects and product development.
- Offer preparation: preparing offers (with supervision) and presenting them on site to customers and partners.
Skills: development, communication, and implementation of product visions; product backlog management; stakeholder management; regular reporting to management and steering committees; requirements analysis & engineering; planning and documenting workshops; functional leadership and coordination of (distributed) project teams and external service providers; epic management; user story specifications; creating use cases, support with software tests and user acceptance testing (UAT); release management and sprint planning; design of target processes; process optimization; planning, concept, and specification of interfaces to existing and new systems; identification, assessment, and steering of project risks; active claim and change management; facilitation of sprint planning and reviews; data migration; Scrum; Kanban; REST API; JSON; XML; BPMN; UML; Jira; Confluence
Arndt Maas
Project Manager for ServiceNow Vulnerability Response
Last position:
Project Manager for ServiceNow Vulnerability Response at Union Investment Services & IT GmbH
- Led the subproject for implementing Vulnerability Response as part of DORA
- Documented the current processes in compliance, risk & security
- Created the functional design for introducing application, infrastructure, and cloud vulnerabilities
- Agile management of the integration service provider, the technical department, and the company's cross-functional teams
- Integrated the V scanners Tenable, Qualys and Defender, as well as NVD and CISA/KEV
- Integrated GitLab Ultimate for importing and processing SBOMs
- Developed automation rules to match scan results with CIs in the CMDB, assign vulnerabilities and remediation tasks, handle approvals (false positives, exceptions) and closures
- Calculated multiple risk scores and priorities
- Defined dashboards and reports (Workspaces, Performance Analytics)
- Aligned the new processes, especially to improve the CMDB data quality (according to CSDM)
Stefan Schnabel
Founder and Senior Consultant
Last position:
Founder and Senior Consultant at LPM-Consulting, the LeanManufactur
- Consulting SMEs in Lean Management, Operational Excellence and internal auditing according to ISO 9001
- Implementation of efficiency, effectiveness and quality improvement measures
- Support with the implementation of sustainability strategies
Hashem Badra
Project Manager, QMB and Safety Officer
Last position:
Project Manager, QMB and Safety Officer at TRIPLAN GmbH
- Management, coordination, and supervision of numerous multidisciplinary projects in the field of production plants/plant planning in the gas and oil, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries
- Documentation and evaluation of project results
- Participation in the introduction of the QM system
- Preparation and execution of the certification audit, energy, safety, and QM audit
Ricarda Mayer
Consultant Quality Management
Last position:
Consultant Quality Management at Quality for Life Sciences (Consulting)
- Quality assurance / management
- Process optimization (laboratory processes, QM/QS processes, etc.)
- Revision and adaptation of existing systems (e.g. document management, equipment management) to ensure compliance with new regulatory requirements
- Implementation/optimization of deviation and/or change control management processes
- GLP and GMP support
- Interim Quality Manager
- QA management
- Audits and inspections
- Conducting internal audits / self-inspections (GLP, GMP)
- Organization, preparation, coordination and support of regulatory inspections including creation of action plans if needed
- Creation and revision of controlled documents (SOPs, qualification documents, manufacturing instructions, checklists, forms, etc.)
- Content review of existing controlled documents for compliance, structure/format and consistency
- "Streamlining" of document management systems
- Basic training (GLP, GMP)
- Refresher training (GLP, GMP)
- Equipment qualifications
- Other topics on request
Michael Schiffer
Principal Consultant / Managing Director
Last position:
Principal Consultant / Managing Director at The Implementers GmbH
Consulting and interim management in the automotive industry, healthcare and other sectors focusing on program management, production launches, plant management, supplier development, cost reduction, process optimization, AI implementation and AI-driven process automation.
Key projects:
Concept for performance documentation of a pain therapy department with interdisciplinary input and reconciliation with OPS catalogue (Feb 2026).
Complete billing system for a medical practice with multi-tenant support, state machine workflow, ZUGFeRD/EN16931-compliant invoice generation, OpenEMR integration; implemented with ~4 200 LOC Python, ~1 700 LOC SQL, 30+ endpoints, 13 DB migrations (Dec 2025 — Feb 2026).
Clinical decision support system for inpatient pain therapy including automated processing of pain questionnaires, AI-generated therapy recommendations and longitudinal analysis; stack: FastAPI, Ollama, PyMuPDF, React + TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Docker (Sep 2025 — Mar 2026).
End-to-end AI-powered transcription and documentation pipeline from physician-patient conversations with WhisperX transcription, five-stage LLM pipeline, review UI and self-hosted infrastructure; stack: FastAPI, WhisperX, Ollama, React + TypeScript, Docker (Aug 2025 — Feb 2026).
AI-powered pipeline for document recognition and automated bank reconciliation processing >3 000 transactions and >4 000 documents with multi-model OCR, LLM-based document separation, web UI and loop-based prompt versioning; infrastructure: Docker Compose, PostgreSQL, Ollama LLM server (Aug 2025 — present).
Supplier development for suspension parts including changes, new launches, relocations and bottleneck management for KTM (May 2023 — Nov 2024).
Leading transfer of 150 serial production items after supplier plant closure for KTM (Jul 2022 — Jan 2024).
Lean and process consultation for Swiss manufacturer of electro components at Von Roll Schweiz AG (Jun 2018 — Nov 2018).
Ongoing back office support and process improvement for a private pain therapy & TCM practice including anesthesia protocols, website setup, digitalization and process optimization (May 2018 — May 2025).
Acting plant manager for interior trim components in Hungary focusing on stabilization, tooling optimization, headcount reduction and backlog reduction at MAO Automotive GmbH & Co (Feb 2018 — Jun 2018).
Start-up consulting and coaching for private pain therapy & TCM practice covering concept, business plan, financing, construction, setup and SOP implementation (May 2017 — Apr 2018).
Program manager for critical suppliers DAG BR238 door trim leading supplier qualification, sampling, PPAP/EMPB tracking and process approvals at Megatech Industries Deutschland GmbH (Jul 2016 — Oct 2017).
Interim COO and acting plant manager in aluminum profile processing automotive supplier with 350 employees and €80 M revenue, leading expansion in Slovakia at PWG Profilrollen-Werkzeugbau GmbH (Sep 2015 — May 2016).
Leading labor and material efficiency program for headliner production focusing on process, material, labor and supplier cost reduction at Motus Headliner GmbH (Jan 2015 — Aug 2015).
Leading development program for interior door trim DAG C292 including launch phase onsite in MS & AL at Toyota Boshoku America (Sep 2012 — Jan 2015).
Leading cost down team for DAG C218 door panels at Toyota Boshoku Europe NV (Mar 2012 — Aug 2012).
Sun visor development consulting for project team in Turkey including optimization, market analysis and design reviews at MARTUR FOMPAK (Jan 2012 — Dec 2014).
Leading transfer of injection molding tools to new suppliers including sampling, assembly trials and PPAP/EMPB coordination at Toyota Boshoku Europe NV (Jan 2012 — Aug 2012).
Program manager for BMW sun visors L7 Platform with production transfer and new development of F30 sun visor at Magna (Jul 2010 — Dec 2011).
Kai Müller
Head of Quality Assurance
Last position:
Tier 1 Battery Management Systems
- Fully automated screwdriving and dispensing processes
- General processes such as employee training
- Participation in task force meetings with OEM customers
- Six Sigma
- Employee training
- Improvement processes
- Escalation processes
Jean Schikora
Introduction to ISO 27001
Last position:
Introduction to ISO 27001 at Software developer
- Introduction of an information security management system into an existing management system according to ISO 9001
Jörg Schmitt
Senior Manager Quality Management
Last position:
Senior Manager Quality Management at Dürr Assembly Products GmbH
- Head of integrated management systems (quality, environment, information security) and laboratory in the automotive environment (mechanical engineering, custom production)
- Carrying out internal audits and supporting external audits
- Further development of the certified systems according to ISO 9001, VDA 6.4, TISAX, ISO 14001
Christian Mägerlein
Owner
Last position:
Project manager at SIS-Team Project GmbH
CHP cooperative value chain West Saxony Building new connections between OEM, TIER1, TIER2 and suppliers for smaller batches
Thomas Freudemann
Operational Excellence Consultant
Last position:
Operational Excellence Consultant at amedes GmbH
- Operational efficiency assessment (with McKinsey)
Thomas Kupfer
Automotive Consultant/Coach - Information Security - Process Consulting
Last position:
Consultant/Coach Risk Management, Automotive SPICE, Functional Safety, Automotive Security, Processes at Tier-1 Automotive Supplier
- Establishing a risk management framework
- Consolidating management systems (UMS/QMS/EMS/TISAX) including integrating automotive processes (A-SPICE, functional safety, automotive cybersecurity)
- Planning the necessary approach for implementing Automotive SPICE
- Designing strategies for processes: SYS.1-5, MAN.3, SUP.1, SUP.8-10, ACQ.4, SWE.1-4
- Process analysis and design for SYS.1-5, MAN.3, SUP.1, SUP.8, SUP.9, SUP.10, ACQ.4
Mike Lie
Agile Coach / Scrum Master
Last position:
Agile Coach / Scrum Master at Landesamt für Digitalisierung, Breitband und Vermessung
- Agile Coach and Scrum Master in the Baykom project
- Coaching the PO and the team
- Reorganization of previous processes with noticeable performance improvement (no statistics yet due to the few sprints, only feedback from the team and from the PO with their supervisor)
Thomas Roßner
Project Manager in Animal Husbandry and Feed
Last position:
Project Manager in Animal Husbandry and Feed at Mid-sized company – up to 90 employees
- Quality management consulting and support for certification of product safety standards
- Gap analysis, planning, document structure and practical implementation
- Conducting internal audits
- Conducting training sessions
- Supporting the QMS system partners with questions about the system, efficiency and overall quality
- Processing database entries related to feed monitoring
- Creating circulars for system partners and certification bodies
- Member of the crisis management team
- Managing projects from development to market launch, including integrating new products into operational processes and coordinating interfaces with purchasing, production, engineering and quality assurance departments
- Point of contact for suppliers and certification bodies
Siegfried Dreher
Head of Production Planning
Last position:
Head of Production Planning at Scheuerle/TII-Group
- Reorganized production planning (4 planning staff, 6 control staff, and 1 Lean specialist)
- Optimized SAP processes (PS/PP planning and control)
- Managed interfaces (purchasing, production, sales, logistics)
- Maintained master data
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Qualitätsauditor (TÜV) statistics
Typical experience
27 years
Average project duration
4.5 years
Certifications per freelancer
14
Top business areas
Quality Assurance, Project Management, Operations
Top industries
Manufacturing, Automotive, Professional Services
Most common languages
German, English, French
Bachelor's degree or higher
89%
Master's degree or higher
44%
Doctorate
17%
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Frequently Asked Questions
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A Qualitätsauditor (TÜV) shows that the holder can carry out structured audits and judge whether processes meet defined quality requirements. It is about practical audit work: planning, evidence collection, findings, and follow-up. For companies, that means the freelancer can support real improvement work, not just paperwork.
No. A Qualitätsauditor (TÜV) is focused on audit skills, while a quality manager profile is usually broader and covers the full quality system. Someone with this certificate is trained to assess, question, and report on processes with a clear audit method.
It fits professionals who work in quality management, internal audit, supplier management, or process improvement. Qualitätsauditor (TÜV) is also useful for freelancers who support companies during certification preparation or follow-up actions. It is a good match when structured review and neutral assessment are needed.
A qualified freelancer should be able to plan an audit, conduct interviews, review documents, and write understandable findings. They should also identify nonconformities in a calm and factual way. In many projects, the value lies in making improvement steps clear enough for teams to act on them.
An internal auditor is a job function, while Qualitätsauditor (TÜV) is a formal qualification that supports that function. The certificate signals trained audit competence, but the actual role may still depend on the company’s quality system and scope. In practice, many companies look for both the certificate and relevant sector experience.
Preparation usually includes learning audit principles, quality management basics, and how to document findings clearly. TÜV programs are typically practical and case-oriented, so candidates benefit from real process experience. People who have already supported audits or quality reviews tend to adapt faster.
Yes, ongoing refresh is useful because audit methods, quality systems, and company processes evolve over time. Even when the certificate itself is not tied to a constant re-test, employers expect current knowledge and sound audit practice. Freelancers should keep their methods and terminology up to date.
It matters most in projects involving quality management systems, supplier audits, internal control checks, and audit preparation for German organizations. It is especially relevant where teams need precise documentation and clear communication in German or bilingual settings. Qualitätsauditor (TÜV) is a strong signal in process-heavy industries and regulated environments.
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