Appointment of Director

SQS Software Quality Systems AG 

("SQS" or the "Company")

Appointment of Director

SQS Software Quality Systems AG (AIM: SQS.L), the world's largest pure play supplier of independent software testing and quality management services, is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr Diederik Vos as Chief Operating Officer with immediate effect. Mr Vos was previously European partner for Telecoms & High Tech at Pcubed, Head of Professional Services EMEA at Avaya and has held a number of roles at INS/Lucent Technologies and AT&T amongst others. Mr Vos has considerable experience in building up and running large service organisations, including offshore centres, and will play a lead role in SQS's strategy to expand its managed services division.

Enquiries:

Jack Rich

AIM Rules Schedule 2 Disclosure - for the purposes of paragraph (g) of Schedule 2 of the AIM rules, the following information is disclosed:

Full name: Diederik Ferdinand Vos

Age: 47

Mr Vos holds or has held the following directorships within the last 5 years:

As at the date of his appointment, Mr Vos was interested in no ordinary shares of Euro 1 each in the SQS share capital.

No further disclosures are required to be made in relation to Mr Diederik Vos under Schedule 2 (g) (iii) - (viii) of the AIM rules.

About SQS

SQS is the world's largest pure play supplier of independent software testing and quality management services. SQS consultants design and oversee quality management processes during the software and IT systems life cycle and test the resulting products for errors and omissions.

Headquartered in Cologne, Germany, SQS has approximately 1,900 employees across Europe, Asia, North America and Africa. The Group has a presence in Germany (Cologne, Munich, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Goerlitz and Hamburg), the UK (London, Woking, Birmingham, Manchester, Belfast), Ireland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Sweden, Norway, Finland, India, Egypt, the United States and South Africa. SQS also has a minor stake in an operation in Portugal and a partnership operation in Spain.

With more than 5,000 completed projects, SQS has a strong customer base including 35 FTSE-100 companies, more than half of the DAX 30 and a third of the STOXX-50. It supports clients in a wide range of industries, including major corporations such as Allianz, Beazley, BP, Centrica, Daimler, Deutsche Post, Generali, JP Morgan, Meteor, Reuters and Volkswagen.