The Swiss Testing Board (STB) is a not for profit legal entity according Art. 60ff of the Swiss civil code. It was formed in 2002 and include following roles:

  • Support for ISTQB® certification schemes in Switzerland by:
    • Developing ISTQB® exams (in German language together with German and Austrian Testing Board) for our and other international ISTQB® Exam Boards
    • Developing new syllabi within ISTQB® working groups
  • Provision of accreditation for ISTQB® trainers and training materials in Switzerland via our exam partners
  • Working with testers, employers, education and other standard bodies to advance the professionalism of the software testing profession in Switzerland
  • Leading the industrialization of Software Testing within Switzerland through process consistency and standards adoption.

 

DIRECTORS

Reto Armuzzi

President

Andreas Hetz

Director Accreditation

Renzo Cerquozzi

Director Exam questions

Nishan Portoyan

Director Services

Armin Born

Director Marketing

MEMBERS WITH VOTING RIGHTS

François Martin, SwissQ Consulting

Tobias Horn, Hetz Engineering

Milena Donato, Swisscom Health

Joan Killeen, IPI

Ralf Pichler, SwissQ Consulting AG

Thomas Letzkus, Intersys

Markus Beck, Credit-Suisse

Michel Granjead, Mettler Toledo

Ferdinand Gramsamer, Infogem

Alessandro Sebaste, QSoft GmbH

Patrick Eichhorn, Quickline AG

Suruchi Varshney, UBS

MEMBERS WITHOUT VOTING RIGHTS

Ursula Oberli, SAQ

Sabrina Kordes, iSQI

Anja van Ackern, SwissQ

Kyle Siemens, Brightest

HONORARY MEMBERS

Reto Müller, Synspace

Thomas Müller, Validation

ABOUT STB

The Swiss Testing Board (STB) is a non profit legal entity according Art. 60ff of the Swiss civil code formed in 2002. Since May 2nd 2019 is the Swiss Testing Board Association (STB) with the company code CHE-235.341.626 entered in the commercial register
of the Kanton Solothurn.

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