BIOGRAPHY

Yaron has been working in software since 1990, and has more than 20 years in testing field as a Test Engineer, Testing TL, and Testing Manager. His original profession was Systems Analyst.

Yaron Tsubery is the current CEO and founder of Smartest Technologies Ltd and has been a Director of QA & Testing Manager at Comverse since 2000 until 2010. Yaron was in charge of a large and distributed group that includes Testing Team Leaders and Test Engineers. The group deals with Functional, Non-functional, Load & Performance tests, some of which are done off-shore. The group has much experience in managing and controlling acceptance tests. Yaron is also known as a manager who has built testing groups in his past and also acted as a consultant to testing managers while they were building their testing groups.

Yaron worked in Product Management, Project Management and Development for at least 3 years before becoming a Director of QA & Testing.

Yaron has wide experience in banking business processes. For the last 10 years he has implemented best practices in a field where he is in charge of producing complex systems for telecommunication companies such as Vodafone, T-Mobile, NTT DoCoMo, Verizon Wireless etc'; Main systems in Mobile technology: i-mode, Mobile GateWay and Billing Proxy; in System Integration projects: Content Data Management solutions including OSS & BSS sub-systems, Video Solutions, IPTV and IMS.

Yaron is the current President of ISTQB^® (International Testing Qualifications Board – (www.istqb.org) and is also the President and founder of the ITCB (Israeli Testing Certification Board – (www.itcb.org.il). He is a member of IQAMF (Israeli QA Managers Forum) and in SIGiST Israel.

Yaron has been invited as a speaker to some important international conferences to lecture on subjects related to testing, as well as he wrote articles that were published in professional magazines.