An election for Chair and Vice Chair roles of all ISTQB® Working Groups was held at the ISTQB® General Assembly meeting in Singapore (March 2016).
Below are the elected members.
Role |
Elected Member (Board) |
Foundation Working Group - Chair |
Klaus Olsen (Denmark) |
Foundation Working Group - Vice Chair |
Tauhida Parveen (USA) |
Advanced Working Group - Chair |
Mike Smith (UK) |
Advanced Working Group - Vice Chair |
Graham Bath (Germany) |
Expert Working Group - Chair |
Graham Bath (Germany) |
Expert Working Group - Vice Chair |
Judy McKay (USA) |
Glossary Working Group - Chair |
Matthias Hamburg (Germany) |
Glossary Working Group - Vice Chair |
Judy McKay (USA) |
Exam Working Group - Chair |
Wojciech Jaszcz (Poland) |
Exam Working Group - Vice Chair |
Beata Karpinska (Sweden) |
TBOK Working Group - Chair |
Corne Kruger (South Africa) |
TBOK Working Group - Vice Chair |
Patrick Eichhorn (Switzerland) |
Marketing Working Group - Chair |
Alon Linetzki (Israel) |
Marketing Working Group - Vice Chair |
Luis Amaral (Portugal) |
Process/Audit Working Group - Chair |
Tal Pe'er (Israel) |
Process/Audit Working Group - Vice Chair |
Clive Bates (UK) |
Governance Working Group - Chair |
Olivier Denoo (France) |
Governance Working Group - Vice Chair |
Jen Leger (Canada) |
“ISTQB® welcomes the elected Chairs and Vice Chairs”, said Gualtiero Bazzana, ISTQB® President” thanking them for their volunteer work and wishing them success for their term”
ISTQB® also wants to thank previous WG Chair/ Vice Chairs for their outstanding contribution to advancing the software testing profession; in particular (in alphabetic order):
- Bertrand Cornanguer (France)
- Carol Cornelius (New Zealand)
- Eric Riou du Cosquer (France)
- Kaspar Loog (Estonia)
- Mette Bruhn Pedersen (Denmark)
- Patricia Alves (Portugal)
- Thomas Mueller (Switzerland)
MediaContacts:
Gualtiero Bazzana, ISTQB® President, bazzana@istqb.org
Alon Linetzki, ISTQB® Chair of Marketing Working Group, alon.linetzki@istqb.org
About ISTQB®
The International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB®) was founded in November 2002 and is a non-profit organization, headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, whose mission is to advance the software testing profession. ISTQB® has defined the "ISTQB® Certified Tester" scheme that has become the world-wide leader in the certification of competences in software testing. It is supported in its mission by 50 member boards. Thanks also to the Global Exam Providers, it has today a world-wide coverage and has administered as of December 2015 over 600.000, issuing over 440.000 certificates. ISTQB® is an organization based on volunteer work by hundreds of software testing experts around the world.