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Graham Bath can look back on more than 20 years of professional experience in testing.

Jürgen Beniermann got his first computer in 1985 and has been hooked ever since.

For more than 15 years, Ralf Bongard has been assisting well-known companies – as a consultant, coach and trainer. His focus is on requirements engineering, test management and the training of expert trainers.

Dr. Klaudia Dussa-Zieger is Principal Consultant at Method Park Consulting GmbH and has been involved in software testing and software quality for almost 20 years.

Francis Fenner has worked in software testing for over 23 years. After studying Public Administration at the University of Limerick, he completed a postgraduate diploma in Information Technology at the National University of Maynooth.

As Chief Process Officer at TestSolutions GmbH, Florian Fieber is responsible not only for the test process management of the entire organization, but also for the complete training area with the “QualityDojo – TestSolutions Academy”.

Thorsten Geiselhart studied Electrical Engineering at the Ulm University of Applied Sciences and has been working since his diploma thesis in 2004 at Marquardt GmbH in Rietheim-Weilheim in the area of Functional Software Test.

For Jan Giesen, good communication is an important prerequisite for successful project implementation. It is crucial that all parties use the same terms for the same things.

It was a Year 2K project which introduced Dr. Matthias Hamburg, a software engineer of long-standing experience, to the new world of systematic software testing.

What is so special about software testing? For Timea Illes-Seifert the answer is easy: For her, quality assurance is distinguished primarily through an engineering approach and through the great variety of activities associated with it.

Dietrich Leimsner likes to speak of the tester’s “dirty fantasy”, which cannot be replaced by machines, when he explains why even in times of test automation and AI-supported test case generation, the human element of the trained software tester must not be missing in comprehensive software quality assurance.

In 1974, when Werner Lieblang first programmed a microprocessor at the Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany had just become Soccer World Champions for the second time.

Andreas Neumeister has been active in software quality assurance for over eight years, covering the entire software life cycle.

Horst Pohlmann, born in 1958, studied Computer Science at the University of Paderborn and worked initially as a system developer in a branch of a software house belonging to the Rheinmetall group, where he first introduced the subject of software quality assurance.

Prof. Dr. Ralf Reißing has been intensively involved with software engineering, quality assurance and testing since his studies in computer science.

The main focal points of her activities are the coaching of test managers and test teams, the sustained introduction of software reviews and improvement of processes in test management.

“It’s not about testing as much as possible – it’s about testing the right thing.”
This is the motto under which Annette Simon worked for more than 10 years at the world’s leading independent software quality specialist, the SQS Software Quality Systems AG in Cologne, which was merged into the Expleo Group in February 2019.

Quality assurance is a holistic task, and it has something to do with competitiveness” – that is beyond question for Dr Frank Simon.

Tanja Tremmel is CEO of TM Tremmel Consult GmbH, which is focused on improving software quality.

The fact that Sabine Uhde today works as an expert in tester training is not merely a result of one single decision.

Stephanie Ulrich belongs to those who were enthusiastic about software testing even back in the nineties, at a time when quality assurance did not have the status it has today.

Quality is the location advantage in Germany – Dr. Stephan Weißleder is dedicated to the preservation of this advantage.

Marc-Florian Wendland studied media informatics and then computer engineering at the Beuth University of Applied Sciences (formerly TFH Berlin).

As scientist, Prof. Dr. Mario Winter is per se committed to independence. The professor works at the „Institute for Computer Science“ at the Technology Arts Sciences TH Köln, where he is a member of the main research subject „Software quality”.

Dr. Erhardt Wunderlich was already involved with programmable pocket calculators during his school years and was also repeatedly involved with software programming during his studies of physics/astronomy.

Peter Zimmerer knows the challenges of software testing in practice – and has for many years.