Michiel Vroon

Owner, Quaboo Test management and consulting

At the beginning of 1998, Michiel began programming test tools at LogicaCMG, having already spent a number of years working as a COBOL programmer. The acquisition of this knowledge allowed him to become involved in the development of the “Testframe” test method in 1999. As a test consultant Michiel co-authored the book about Testframe and introduced these methods and processes to many organisations. At Capgemini in 2000 he was a test manager responsible for various national and international projects. Towards the end of 2002 while continuing with his job as test manager he was requested to set up a test competence centre and thereafter to run it. The competence centre expanded to employe around 40 staff who carried out projects for customers from the financial world. He eventually became responsible for all the testing services at Capgemini. In mid-2004 he made the move to Business Development at Sogeti. Here he was responsible for the development of new products and services in the specialist areas of quality assurance and testing. He also carried out a coaching and consultative role for the test professionals at Sogeti. At the beginning of 2006 he was one of the initiators and authors of a new version of TMap. This resulted in the publication of the book, “TMap Next for result driven testing” in 2007 and spent the rest of the year introducing this new method. On February 2008 Michiel became an independent test manager and consultant.