The Auditor Register for ISO Management Systems
QA Assessor certifies management system auditors on ten ISO schemes at five grades, from Associate to Principal Auditor. Your grade rests on verified training and audit records and is decided by someone who did not train or assess you.
About QA Assessor Certification Body
QA Assessor is an independent personnel certification body for management system auditors. We maintain the QA Assessor Auditor Register: a public record of auditors whose training and audit experience have been verified against defined grade requirements on each scheme. Our processes are self-declared as aligned with ISO/IEC 17024:2026, with assessment separated from training and decisions made on evidence alone.
Training is delivered separately, on our learning platform, and every course ends with a Certificate of Achievement. Certification is then decided on what you do with that training: your verified audits, a work sample of your own audit work and, for the higher grades, a structured interview, assessed against a published rubric by someone who did not train you.
10 ISO Management System Standards
QA Assessor certifies professionals across the full spectrum of internationally recognised management system standards.
Five Grades on Every Scheme
Your grade is decided on the assessment of your verified audits, your work sample and, for the higher grades, a structured interview, with a completed auditor course as the training requirement. Move up as your experience grows.
Completed an auditor course and building experience. Formal recognition of your training before you have logged audits.
Audits parts of your own organisation's system, or a supplier's, usually alongside another role. Five verified internal audits.
Carries out full management system audits as a team member or alone. Four full audits, twenty audit days.
Plans and leads audit teams through full audits. Three audits led on top of the Auditor requirements.
Senior audit professionals with ten or more years of auditing who now work in training, consultancy or management.
Impartial, Independent Certification Decisions
Objective Evidence Based
Certification decisions are based solely on objective evidence of competence, without commercial, financial, or political influence.
Impartiality Committee
An Impartiality Committee with balanced stakeholder representation monitors threats to impartiality and advises the Director.
Structural Separation
Training is delivered by a separate function. Trainers take no part in verifying records, assessing applications or certification decisions, and completing a QA Assessor course is not required for certification and gives no advantage in it.
No Conflicts of Interest
No individual's remuneration is linked to the number of certifications granted, ensuring complete independence.
From Training to the Register
Nine steps, each shown in your dashboard as it is reached. QA Assessor operates a documented certification process, self-declared as aligned with ISO/IEC 17024:2026.
Account and identity
Register, complete your profile and have your identity verified. Your Member ID becomes your Register ID when you are certified.
Train
Complete an auditor course for your standard at the level the grade needs, with QA Assessor, an Approved Training Provider or any provider we can confirm.
Log your records
Record each audit and your work experience in your dashboard: role, days, on-site time, evidence and a person who can confirm it. For Auditor and above, flag one redacted audit plan or report of your own as your work sample.
Records verified
A reviewer checks each record against its evidence and may contact the people you named. Verified records are locked, and only verified records count.
Apply, declare and pay
Choose the scheme and grade, see the live check of your records and the itemised fees, accept the declaration and pay at checkout.
Assessment
After the prerequisite review freezes your records, an assessor who did not train you scores them, your work sample and, where required, a structured interview against the published rubric.
Independent decision
Made by a Certification Manager who did not assess, verify or train you, on the locked assessment, with the reasons recorded, normally within 15 working days of the prerequisite review.
On the register
Register ID, certificate number, a certificate stating your scope and certification period, a digital auditor card and a public entry anyone can verify by QR code or link.
Keep it current
Annual renewal, three verified CPD records in each full calendar year (Plan, Do, Check, Act), recertification every three years and regrade as you grow.
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Training Records Verified in Your Dashboard
Complete a QA Assessor course and your Certificate of Achievement is added to your Training and Qualifications; certificates from other providers are confirmed with the provider. A verified course at the right level meets the training requirement of every grade.
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Keep Your Audit Log and CPD Up to Date
Your audit log is the evidence for your grade and your CPD log is the evidence for recertification. Both live in your dashboard; log activities as they happen.
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