Leo van der Aalst

General

After having gone through the classic path (from programmer to project manager) Leo has specialised since 1990 in the test field, in which he held functions such as test manager, test advisor, research & development manager and line manager.

As business development manager he has been co-author of TMap NEXT and TMap NEXT BDTM and developed amongst others services for the implementation of test organisations and for test outsourcing. Leo has also designed the EXIN tasks for TMap NEXT Test Engineer as well as for the Test Manager exam and he supplies preparation training for these exams. Also Leo is lector "Software Quality & Testing" at Fontys University of Applied Sciences.

His knowledge and experience in the project- and test management field have been used and developed further during a number of international projects and consultancy trajectories (in USA, Germany, Denmark and Austria).

Besides all this, Leo is a much sought-after teacher of test training and a regular speaker on national- and international conferences and he is the author of several articles.

Conferences: a.o. STARWEST and PNSQC (both USA), EUROSTAR (Europe), Test Congress and Test Expo (both UK), Test2008 (India), Quality Week Europe (Belgium), Iqnite and TAV (both Germany), Swiss Testing Day (Switzerland), ExpoQA and QA&TEST (both Spain)

Articles: a.o. software testing as a service (STaaS), calculate the added value of testing, risk based testing, benefits of a test service centre, testing in agile software development environments with TMap NEXT.

Preferred assignment

Leo’s strong characteristics are: enthousiasm, creativity, analytical strength, purposive, communication skills and his capability to realise complex and/or politically sensitive projects. Leo’s functionality is at his best in an environment in which he can use one or more of the above mentioned characteristics.

In short: the assignment has to be challenging.