Ivan Tritchkov received in 2011 from the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen and Nuremberg in Germany a Ms.S. degree in information and communication technologies with focus on mobile communications and transmission technology.
He started his professional career in 2012 at Siemens Corporate Technology as test automation engineer and research scientist for
software testing and quality. In the next years he worked on various projects in the rail automation domain. Since 2015 he has been working as test architect in industry domain. In 2018 he became portfolio manager at Siemens for research and innovations in the area of quality engineering. His current research interests and latest professional experience include software verification and validation of industrial-grade edge and IoT devices, quality assurance of industrial applications and third-party contributions, as well as quality engineering of industrial data. He is a certified test architect and certified iSTQB test manager. Mr. Tritchkov holds several patents in the software testing area.