ISTQB, the International Software Testing Qualifications Board, has chosen Mr. Yaron Tsubery, Director of QA & Testing Manager at Comverse, Israel to be its new elected president for 2009-2010.
Representatives from over 40 national testing boards cooperate in ISTQB to set the global standard for the training and certification of software testers worldwide. More than 115,000 professional have already been certified according to the ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation and Advanced Level standard.
The last quarterly meeting of ISTQB was held in Sydney, Australia on Thursday 26th of March. During this meeting elections for the new Executive Board for ISTQB were conducted.
Mr. Yaron Tsubery is Director of QA & Testing Manager at Comverse Israel and has been working in Comverse for the last 8 years, out of 20 years experience in IT. More in ISTQB elections: Chris Carter from the Australia/New Zealand Testing board was elected Vice President. Horst Pohlmann from the German Testing Board was re-elected as Treasurer and Robert Dankanin, from the Czech and Slovak Board is the new elected Secretary.
The new executive positions take over from Rex Black (President), Erik van Veenendaal (Vice President) and Chris Carter (Secretary). The ISTQB General Assembly thanks Rex and Eric for their work and wish the new ISTQB Executives good luck in the next two years of their terms.