{"id":8512,"date":"2023-11-15T16:57:36","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T15:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gtb.de\/?page_id=8512"},"modified":"2025-11-06T14:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T13:24:09","slug":"dr-frank-simon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gtb.de\/en\/german-testing-board\/members\/dr-frank-simon\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Frank Simon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Members present themselves<\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
Member of the GTB<\/h5><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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\"FrankQuality assurance is a holistic task, and it has something to do with competitiveness\u201d \u2013 that is beyond question for Dr Frank Simon. This is because holistic quality assurance ensures that software does not \u201cjust\u201d run, but also has other facets, such as being user-friendly, secure, easy to maintain, portable, efficient and so on. Those who can offer such software give themselves and their customers a clear advantage in global competition.<\/p>\n

Quality assurance guided Frank\u2019s graduate and business very early: He wrote his diploma thesis on the ergonomic quality of IT systems and his doctoral thesis focussed on the technical view of systems. After graduating, he moved into the world of business \u2013 and thus also into the world of software testing: Dr Frank Simon joined a large management consultancy, where he became familiar with the various facets of quality management and testing. There, he developed new business areas relating to the quality assurance of very technology-related services (\u201ccode quality management\u201d) and managed corresponding international research projects as well as the entire innovation division of a globally active company.<\/p>\n

After 11 years, he moved to the executive board of a medium-sized service provider for 4 years, where he successively worked on the area of security as an exposed quality characteristic in addition to classic business development.<\/p>\n

He then spent five years at Zurich Insurance Company Germany, where he was responsible for IT security, before becoming IT manager at Bank-Verlag, the IT service provider for German private banks, for three years.<\/p>\n

Since the beginning of 2025, he has been IT manager at Landesf\u00f6rderbank Bayern in Munich.<\/p>\n

Dr. Frank Simon repeatedly emphasizes one important insight: \u201cExcellent training and continuing education are indispensable for sustainable corporate success. This is especially true in the fast-paced field of IT security, which for many seems to be a constant cat-and-mouse game between hackers and IT operators.\u201d In order to promote this type of education throughout the industry, and because he appreciates the ISTQB\u00ae’s holistic view of quality assurance, Dr. Frank Simon is involved in the GTB. He sees the association as an important supporter of the training of suitable specialists for holistically operated quality assurance \u2013 and thus as an important pillar for ensuring the competitiveness of software \u201cMade in Germany.\u201d<\/p>\n

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