Katalin Balla

Katalin Balla was founding member of SQI-Hungarian Software Quality Consulting Institute Ltd. in 2004, where she has the job of managing director. SQI is an authorized SEI Partner and member of the ESI@net, the European Software Institute’s commercial network. Katalin works as a consultant in software process improvement. She is a qualified ISO 9001:2000, Bootstrap and SPICE auditor, she is a certified SCAMPI LA.

Katalin graduated as an informatician in 1984 from "Babeş Bolyai" University of Science Cluj, Romania. She worked as a programmer and a software system engineer. She attained post-graduate studies in software engineering at Technical University Budapest in 1993, followed by Ph.D. studies between 1994-1997. She obtained her Ph.D. in 2001 at the Technical University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands, in the field of software quality. She worked as a quality director at IQSOFT / IQSYS Ltd., for 11 years (1993-2004).

Mrs. Balla is associate professor at Technical University Budapest, where she developed and teaches courses in software quality management and software testing (in Hungarian and English). She participated in many international research projects.

Katalin lives in Budapest with her husband and their daughter.