Erik van Veenendaal

Drs. Erik van Veenendaal CISA (Improve Quality Services BV) has been working as a practitioner and manager in the IT-industry since 1987. After a career in software development, he transfered to the area of software quality. As a test manager and test consultant he has been involved in a great number and variety of projects, has implemented structured testing and carried out test process improvements activities, e.g. based on TMMi and/or TPI, in a large number of organisations in different industries. He has also provided requirement engineering consultancy to various companies. He is the author of numerous papers and a number of books on software quality and testing, including the best-sellers ‘The Testing Practitioner’ and ‘Testing according to TMap’.

Erik was the first person to receive the ISEB Practitioner certificate with distinction and is also a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA). He is a regular speaker both at national and international testing and software quality conferences and a leading international trainer in the field of software testing and requirements engineering. At EuroStar’99 (Usability Testing), EuroStar’02 (Risk Based Testing) and EuroStar’05 (Inspection Moderator) he received the best tutorial award. Erik van Veenendaal is the founder and director of Improve Quality Services ltd., a company that provides consultancy and training services in the area of quality management (requirements engineering) and testing.

Erik has also been a senior lecturer at the Eindhoven University of Technology, Faculty of Technology Management for almost ten years. Erik was the vice-president of the International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB) from 2005 – 2009. Het is also the editor of the ISTQB “Standard Glossary of terms used in Software Testing” and the vice-chair for the TMMi Foundation. For his work in the field of testing Erik received the “European Testing Excellence Award” in december, 2007. Outside testing, Erik is a board member of the Hamlet Oasis resort at Bonaire (Netherlands Antilles).