Peter Zimmerer is a Principal Key Expert Engineer at Siemens AG, Technology, in Munich, Germany. He studied Computer Science at the University of Stuttgart, Germany and received his M.Sc. degree (Diplom-Informatiker) in 1991. He is an ISTQB® Certified Tester Full Advanced Level and member of the German Testing Board (GTB).

For more than 30 years he has been working in the field of software testing and quality engineering for object-oriented, component-based, distributed, service-oriented, and embedded software systems. He was also involved in the design and development of several Siemens in-house testing tools for component and integration testing.

At Siemens he performs consulting, coaching, and training on test management and test engineering practices including test strategies, test architectures, test methods, test techniques, test processes, and test automation in real-world projects and drives research and innovation in this area. He is author of several papers and articles and frequent speaker at international conferences, e.g. at Conference on Quality Engineering in Software Technology (CONQUEST), Software-QS-Tag, SIGS-DATACOM OOP, Software Engineering (SE), GI-TAV, Testing & Finance, STEV Austria, Software Quality Days, SQS Software & Systems Quality Conferences (ICS Test), iqnite, SQS Conference on Software QA and Testing on Embedded Systems (QA&Test), TestNet, JAOO Conference, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA), Dr. Dobb’s Software Development Best Practices, Dr. Dobb’s Software Development West, SEI Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN) Conference, Conference on Testing Computer Software, Quality Week, Conference of the Association for Software Testing (CAST), Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference (PNSQC), PSQT/PSTT, QAI’s Software Testing Conference, QAI’s Quality Engineered Software and Testing Conference (QUEST), Software Test Professionals Conference (STPCon), EuroSTAR, STAREAST, STARWEST, Better Software Conference, and Agile Development Conference.