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Y. Tsubery
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.
A. Linetzki
BIOGRAPHY
Alon Linetzki has been a coach and consultant in the fields of testing and quality assurance for the last 28 years. He started his career as a SW developer, SW development leader, system analyst, and system administrator before becoming a tester. He then served (in the last 18 years) as a tester, test leader, test manager and testing director and a coach with various companies.
Alon has coached and consulted more than 1,000 professional engineers and managers in more than twenty companies.
His passion is about improvement, and he is keen on people: how we think, how well we work, how we can do better. He has been an Effective Personal Communication coach as well (for 3 years) and shares this unique experience with agile and other teams.
Alon has established the Israeli branch of the ISTQB® - ITCB (2004), serves as Vice President and marketing director, and leads the ISTQB® Partner Program stream. He has established the SIGiST Israel – Israeli Testing Forum (2000), and serves voluntarily as the Chairman ever since. Alon is a frequent guest speaker at the Ben-Gurion University on various advanced testing topics.