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 Mr. Yaron Tsubery, ISTQB-CTFL, ISTQB President
14 years experience in SW development, SW project management, engineering and testing management.
Main expertise: Consulting to new organizations; Coaching new test managers; System engineering and analysis.
Director QA & Testing manager, Comverse, Israel
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 Mr. Alon Linetzki [MBA, B.Sc., LQA, CSM, CSA, CTFL, CTAL-TA & TM] is the founder and managing director of Best-Testing (http://best-testing.com/), and a senior trainer at SELA. Mr. Linetzki has 15 years in testing and over 25 years in IT, and is the author of multiple testing courses, including: TPI, Risk Based Testing, Personal Communication Skills, Requirements for Testers, Measurements & Metrics, Dynamic test planning and execution, Pragmatic Advanced Testing, Test Automation and more. Mr. Linetzki, during his long years of experience, has trained and coached more than 900 students, in more than 30 companies. Best-Testing specializes in consulting and training in the above areas and also in: defect management & analysis, building & maintaining effective and efficient testing teams. Mr. Linetzki is a popular speaker in international testing conferences since 1995, co-founder of the Israeli Testing Certification Board (http://www.itcb.org.il/), and the founder and chair of SIGiST Israel (http://sigist.org.il/). He is also a member of the marketing WG of ISTQB.
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 Mr. David Bassa Bsc. Computer Science, VP Finance & Operations
20 years experience in R&D, Management & Training in SW & Testing
CEO, Sela Group, Israel
Bsc. Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University
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 Mr. Yan Baron, M.Sc. Computers. ISTQB-CTFL from American and Israeli qualification boards.
27 years of experience in SW development, testing and engineering. Establishment and management about 10 testing group. Methodology and tools development for different testing areas. Consulting and couching for test mangers. Projects management and methodology. Product lifecycle management: methodology and tools.
PLM director: Comverse, Israel
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 Mr. Michael Stahl, Holds a BSc degree in EE, Ben-Gurion University, Be'er Sheva.
ISTQB-CTFL, ISTQB-Full Advanced
15 years experience in testing integrated circuits and software.
Main expertise: SW testing and Wi-Fi (802.11) protocols.
Senior SW Test Engineer at Intel Israel, holding a technical-leader position in the team that tests the Wi-Fi ingredient of the Centrino Mobile Technology.
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 Mr. Shmuel Knishinsky, ISTQB-CTFL from the American qualification board.
ITCB Co-Founder and Executive Board member, Director of Inspection Committee & ISTQB Working Party-Foundation Level WG.
15 years experience in SW Testing and Quality Engineering.
Main expertise: Building and managing of SW testing groups, managing testing projects and quality engineering.
Director QA, Interwise Israel B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University Beer-Sheva, Academic retraining for software engineering at IBM.
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 Mrs. Debi Zylbermann, BEd in Computer Science and Jewish Studies, Jerusalem College for Women, CQM, ICQM, ISTQB-CTFL, ISTQB-Advanced Functional. 20 years experience in real-time and real-time embedded development, project managment, testing and test management. 3 years experience in Quality Managment.
Main expertise: Quality Management, S/W Test management, deployment of automation and test tools.
CEO - Debi'z consulting Ltd. |
| Advisory Board Members |
 Ms. Ester Zabar, M.Sc in Chemical Engineering, Technion (Haifa), ISTQB-CTFL, ISTQB-Advanced Functional & Management
12 years experience in software development in IAI after completing 9 months of Real Time software course.
11 years of experience in managing QC teams in ECI & BMC.
Main expertise: SW testing management, automation & simulators development management.
Founder of AQA, a company employing people from Autism spectrum in S/W testing.
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 Mr. Tal Pe'er, ISTQB-CTFL from ISEB, ISTQB-Advanced Functional .
10 years experience in SW testing, managing test teams, consulting and teaching.
Testing Consultant, Big Band Networks
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 Dr. Avi Ofer, (Ph.D. of Tel Aviv University), ISTQB-CTFL, ISTQB- Advanced Functional
Experience in research since 1981, and in Software Quality Assurance (SQA) since 1999.
Successful acceptance processes with customers in the US (AT&T, Bellsouth, Nortel, Tyco, Verizon, and others), Netherlands (KPN), Israel (Pelephone, IDF, and others), India (Reliance), and Taiwan (3rd generation cellular operators).
Main expertise: practical testing; acceptance processes; SQA process analysis.
Senior Quality Expert in TTI-Telecom
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 Ms . Sarit Klugman, BSc in information systems & industrial engineering, Technion(Haifa), ISTQB- CTFL, ISTQB - Advanced Functional & Management, graduate of IDF computer school.
12 years experience in software development & testing.
Main expertise: SW testing management, Testing methodology development, Testing tools implementation.
Testing methodology & tools implementation Project Manager, Amdocs, Israel
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 Mr. Ram Yonish, MBA - finance.
ISTQB-CTFL, ISTQB - Advanced Functional.
8 years of experience in SW testing and SQA. Ram is a leading trainer, consultant and QA conferences speaker.
Currently (2008(- SW testing & QA services manager at Matrix - Global. An Offshore/ Nearshore services company with 420 employees (of which - 200 testers).
Past experience:
SureTest - Founder and managing director of SureTest ltd. A SW testing and training provider. A leading trainer of the ISTQB- CTFL and QA consultant
;John Bryce academy - Head of the SW testing and SQA training discipline in John Bryce, Israel;Tescom - Bank discount - Managing a group of 25 testers in 5 different projects
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 Mr. Avinoam Porat, ISTQB- CTFL,
12 years of experience in SW QA and Testing.
Establishment and management of SQA team, expertise in automation testing based on key-words frameworks and CMM/CMMI process management leadership.
CSQE, CMQ and CQE instructor.
Product QA Director - Ceragon
Magister in Quality and Reliability - Technion Haifa
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 Mr. Joshua Weiss,
BSc in management & Information system from Touro College N.Y.;ISTQB- CTFL, ISTQB- Advanced Functional
14 years experience in software QA
Fields: Electronic Medical records, Digital images
for graphic design & medical records, Operating systems for Mobile phones using BT & Assembly of PCB boards
Main expertise: Automatic testing, Test design,
Test management, transaction from testing to QC to QA
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 Mr. Shlomi Amar, ISTQB-CTFL.
10 years of experience in software and hardware testing and QA management.
Main expertise: building and managing of SW testing groups and projects, consulting to organizations, Implementing testing methodologies and variety of test tools.
CEO TestPro Ltd, Director Professionals Group.Software Engineering, Tel-Aviv University |
 Mr. Eli Margolin, ISTQB-CTFL,
CEO and enterpriser of Qualitest Ltd. Graduate of with 25 years of experience in Software of which 20 years at Software Testing, an expert with automatic testing at Keyword driven and an overload testing expert. Rich experience at testing projects in the last years involving hundreds of test engineers. Implemented the ISTQB Foundation certification to all Qualitest employees
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 Mr. Igal Levi, B.A in Management Business & Practical Engineer in computers.
ISTQB-CTFL.
9 years experience in software and Hardware testing.
Fields: Prepress, CTP (computer to plate) and digital equipments for the graphic arts. Main expertise: Building and managing system testing groups.
System Section Head in Kodak IL. |
 Mr. Gari Brizinov, ISTQB-CTFL,MSM degree in Quality and Project Management of Polytechnic University branch, N.Y
18 years of experience in high scale Project Management and Testing & Quality Management. Establishment and Management of 7 testing teams, based on embedded software, hardware and network-management systems. Automated tools development for diverse testing platforms and aspects.
Main expertise: Building , managing and coaching SQA teams, Testing techniques, methodology aspects , automation design , quality management and product life cycle. Well familiar with Japanese quality culture and testing methodology mindset - excellency in Quality.
Director of Software Quality Assurance at Corrigent Systems |
 Ms. Dakar Shalom, ISTQB CTFL , Has 18 years experience in Software testing and QA from tester to senior project manager and methodology implementation. Served as division test manager of 50 testers in amdocs and managed up to 6 different QA projects worldwide in parallel. Dakar main specialized areas of consulting and training are: test strategy, test management, automation strategy, defect management and analysis, building & maintaining effective and efficient testing teams, risk based testing and TPI. In addition Dakar is coaching, executive management, test managers and test leaders on cross QA and testing strategic topics. |
 Ms. Galit Zucker (LLB), ISTQB-CTFL, SCRUM Master Galit is an ALM expert and Quality Assurance professional with an extensive background in leading compound processes, various software & hardware activities and global, multi–group management.
Galit Zucker has comprehensive background in building and repositioning QA and Testing groups. She specializes in establishing testing practices and environments, automated testing and complex testing projects management (including off-shore).
Currently Galit Zucker is a freelancing consultant, providing PLC improvement services as well as Test Management and QA ramp up training support. |
 Mr. Joel Montvelisky, ISTQB-CTFL, has spent over 12 years in the QA & Software Testing Areas, working on diverse companies and positions from Small & Dynamic Internet Start-Ups, and all the way to managing a QA Team for one of the biggest QA Tool Makers in the World. Today, Joel works mainly in two fronts. As a founder and Solution Architect in PractiTest, Joel is helping to develop a next-generation top-of-the-line QA Management Platform for Testing & Development Teams worldwide. Additionally, Joel provides consulting services to local and international companies in the areas of QA Management and Tool Deployment. |
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