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Bodenheim, Germany

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Sep 2022 - Present

Technical Senior Tester and Test Manager

Christian Wegener Beratung

Position summary
Technical Senior Tester and Test Manager at Christian Wegener Beratung
Industries
Information Technology
Transportation
Business areas
Information Technology
Quality Assurance
  • Creation and review of test conditions

  • Execution of functional tests

  • Defect management

  • Supplier management

  • Team coordination

  • Estimation of test effort and reporting

  • Test planning

  • Further development and new development of integrated schedule systems

  • Java web client/Linux server, Oracle Instantclient/Oracle Database Appliance Server, Unix, ESB – Enterprise Service Bus, SQL, TIBCO EMS – Enterprise Message Service/JMS, REST, Impero Guest

  • HP ALM / Micro Focus Quality Center, Citrix, JIRA, XRAY, Impero Guest, MobaXTerm, Confluence, Sharepoint, MS-Teams, MS-Office

Sep 2021 - Jul 2022

Technical Senior Tester

Christian Wegener Beratung

Position summary
Technical Senior Tester at Christian Wegener Beratung
Industries
Transportation
Business areas
Customer Service
Information Technology
Quality Assurance
  • Creation and review of test conditions

  • Execution of functional tests

  • Defect management

  • Supplier management and customer support

  • Further development of an integrated schedule system and its interface partners

  • Quintiq technology, IBM Mainframe MVS, TSO, ISPF, DB2, XML

  • HP ALM / HP Quality Center, DB Visualizer, IBM Host Mainframe, Host on Demand, MS-Office, JIRA, Confluence

Jul 2020 - Aug 2021

Test Automation Engineer

Christian Wegener Beratung

Position summary
Test Automation Engineer at Christian Wegener Beratung
Industries
Information Technology
Business areas
Information Technology
Quality Assurance
  • Conversion of functional manual test cases into automated test cases

  • Test automation of portfolio projects

  • Quintiq technology, Java

  • HP ALM / HP Quality Center, DB Visualizer, IBM Host Mainframe, Host on Demand, MS-Office, JIRA, Confluence

Apr 2018 - Jun 2020

Test Manager and Tester

Christian Wegener Beratung

Position summary
Test Manager and Tester at Christian Wegener Beratung
Industries
Transportation
Professional Services
Business areas
Information Technology
Quality Assurance
  • Creation and review of test conditions

  • Execution of functional tests

  • Estimation of test effort and reporting

  • Defect management

  • Team coordination

  • Supplier management and customer support

  • Training of new employees

  • Test automation

  • New design and implementation of a backend system to decouple order and capacity planning and to exchange messages with European transport partners

  • Java

  • Camunda, HP ALM / HP Quality Center, DB Visualizer, IBM Host Mainframe, Host on Demand, MS-Office, JIRA, Confluence

Mar 2017 - Mar 2018

Test Manager and Tester

Christian Wegener Beratung

Position summary
Test Manager and Tester at Christian Wegener Beratung
Industries
Information Technology
Professional Services
Business areas
Quality Assurance
  • Creation and review of test conditions

  • Execution of functional tests

  • Estimation of test effort and reporting

  • Defect management

  • Team coordination

  • Supplier management and customer support

  • Training of new employees

  • Replacement of a mobile software solution with current technology

  • Android, Java web client

  • HP ALM / HP Quality Center, Clear Quest, DB Visualizer, IBM Host Mainframe, Host on Demand, MS-Office

Oct 2014 - Feb 2017

Team Leader Functional Testing and Tester

Christian Wegener Beratung

Position summary
Team Leader Functional Testing and Tester at Christian Wegener Beratung
Industries
Information Technology
Transportation
Business areas
Project Management
Quality Assurance
Supply Chain Management
  • Creation and review of test conditions

  • Execution of functional tests

  • Estimation of test effort and reporting

  • Defect management

  • Team coordination

  • Supplier management and customer support

  • Conducting workshops and onboarding new employees

  • Redesign of an integrated supply chain management tool for the introduction and support of a new business model

  • Further development of an integrated timetable system and its interface partners

  • Quintiq technology, IBM Mainframe MVS, TSO, ISPF, DB2, JCL / Batchjobs, Oracle DB, XML

  • HP ALM / HP Quality Center, Clear Quest, SOAP UI, DB Visualizer, IBM Host Mainframe, Host on Demand, Lotus Notes, MS-Office

Sep 2013 - Sep 2014

Tester

Christian Wegener Beratung

Position summary
Tester at Christian Wegener Beratung
Industries
Banking and Finance
Business areas
Information Technology
Quality Assurance
  • Creation and review of test conditions and test concepts

  • Execution of functional tests

  • Defect management and test documentation

  • Documentation review

  • Reporting, analysis

  • Further development of a portfolio management system

  • IBM Mainframe MVS, TSO, ISPF, DB2, JCL / Batchjobs, Oracle DB, XML

  • Connection to an ERP system: SAP R/3, Oracle DB, XML-Messaging, Webservices, Java

  • HP ALM / HP Quality Center, JIRA, SoapUI, Hermes JMS, DB Visualizer, SQL Developer, Sharepoint, Quick 3270-Emulation, Lotus Notes, MS Office

Jul 2010 - Jun 2013

Test Manager and Tester

Christian Wegener Beratung

Position summary
Test Manager and Tester at Christian Wegener Beratung
Industries
Information Technology
Business areas
Quality Assurance
  • Test management (test organization and coordination)

  • Requirements analysis

  • Creation and review of test conditions and test concepts

  • Execution of functional tests

  • Defect management and test documentation

  • Test automation

  • Documentation review

  • Reporting, analysis

  • Supplier management and delivery planning

  • Cross-departmental test coordination and creation of release notes

  • New development of an entertainment application in an agile software development project (set-top box, Scrum)

  • Further development of a configuration and statistics system (browser application)

  • Microsoft Mediaroom presentation framework MPF, XML, Oracle DB, Soap, Webservices, WSDL, Axis2, Tasman, Scrum, HTML, JavaScript, Java

  • HP Quality Center, GARD/JIRA, SoapUI, Selenium, MonkeyTalk, Eclipse, MS Office

Mar 2009 - Jul 2010

Test Manager and Tester

Christian Wegener Beratung

Position summary
Test Manager and Tester at Christian Wegener Beratung
Industries
Information Technology
Business areas
Information Technology
Product Development
Quality Assurance
  • Test management (test organization and coordination)

  • Creation of a test concept

  • Creation and review of test conditions

  • Execution of functional tests

  • Defect management and test documentation

  • Documentation review and system documentation

  • Training of testers

  • Functional design

  • Test automation

  • AIR2 - Further development of a CMS for publishing marketing and corporate activities on the Internet and intranet

  • PHP, ZEND Framework, .NET, HTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, MS SQL DB

  • JIRA, MS Office, MS SQL Server, Selenium

Mar 2008 - Dec 2008

Functional Tester

Christian Wegener Beratung

Position summary
Functional Tester at Christian Wegener Beratung
Industries
Pharmaceutical
Business areas
Information Technology
Quality Assurance
  • Review of the requirements specification

  • Creation of test conditions

  • Review of test specifications

  • Execution of functional tests (pre-test, system test)

  • Defect management and test documentation

  • Redesign of an MES for connection to an ERP system

  • Replacement of the legacy system based on new technologies in compliance with legal regulations (FDA, 21 CFR Part 11, GMP/GAMP, Eudralex)

  • Java-Swing client on Windows XP, Java-Pnuts, MS Windows Server, JBoss Application Server, JDBC, MS SQL Database Server/Oracle DB, XML

  • Rational ClearQuest (Web Interface), UML, Lotus Notes, MS-Office

Sep 2006 - Feb 2008

Team Leader Functional Testing

Christian Wegener Beratung

Position summary
Team Leader Functional Testing at Christian Wegener Beratung
Industries
Information Technology
Transportation
Business areas
Information Technology
Quality Assurance
  • Supporting the overall test lead and reporting to the project management

  • Coordinating test planning and execution with the customer

  • Coordinating cross-functional tests

  • Creating test conditions

  • Conducting functional tests (system and acceptance testing)

  • Delivery coordinator for software deliveries

  • Defect management

  • Reviewing test documentation (verification and validation according to CMMI Level 3)

  • Hermes: System for data exchange with international railway companies (web client on Windows NT 4.0, z/OS on MVS host, Cobol, IBM CICS, IBM MQ-Series, JBoss Application Server, EDI/EDIFACT, JCL, DB2, HTML)

  • Performance recording for freight wagons: controlling system (web client on Windows NT 4.0, JBoss Application Server, Oracle DB, Connect Direct, JCL, JDBC)

  • Timetable management: application for visualization and message routing (Powerbuilder client on Windows NT, z/OS on MVS host, Cobol, IBM CICS, IBM MQ-Series, DB2, EDI/EDIFACT, JCL, Sun Solaris, NVS, Connect Direct)

  • HP Quality Center, Rational ClearQuest, Silktest, JCL- & DB2-Utilities, TOAD, IBM Host on Demand, TSO/ISPF, RUMBA, Ultra Edit, DB Visualizer, Lotus Notes, MS-Office

Jul 2003 - Aug 2006

Functional Tester

Christian Wegener Beratung

Position summary
Functional Tester at Christian Wegener Beratung
Industries
Transportation
Business areas
Information Technology
Quality Assurance
  • Creating test conditions

  • Conducting functional and non-functional tests (module group and integration testing)

  • Defect management

  • Test documentation

  • Coordinating tests and deliveries from the offshore partner

  • Training testers

  • Reviewing test documentation (verification and validation according to CMMI Level 3)

  • Loading time monitoring: billing system (Powerbuilder client on Windows NT, z/OS on MVS host, Cobol, IBM CICS, IBM MQ-Series, DB2, JCL, Sun Solaris, Visual Basic)

  • Service booking: application for calculating the optimal transport route (Powerbuilder client on Windows NT, z/OS on MVS host, Cobol, IBM CICS, IBM MQ-Series, DB2, EDI/EDIFACT, Sun Solaris)

  • Cargo Train Path Planning: recording timetable data (Java Swing client on Windows NT, Sun Solaris, Bea Weblogic, z/OS on MVS host, DB2, JCL, IBM CICS, IBM MQ-Series, Connect Direct)

  • Cargo Digital Data Communication: handheld device for mobile data recording (Java frontend on Windows Pocket PC, GSM/GPRS VPN, Bea Weblogic, Sun Solaris, z/OS on MVS host, DB2, JCL, IBM CICS, IBM MQ-Series)

  • Freight Transport Production Procedures: application for executing production processes (Natural client, Adabas, NVS message distribution system, z/OS on MVS host, DB2, JCL, IBM CICS, IBM MQ-Series, Cobol)

  • Rational ClearQuest, JCL- & DB2-Utilities, IBM Host on Demand, TSO/ISPF, RUMBA, Lotus Notes, MS-Office

Mar 2003 - Jun 2003

Functional Analysis and Design

Christian Wegener Beratung

Position summary
Functional Analysis and Design at Christian Wegener Beratung
Industries
Transportation
Business areas
Information Technology
  • Conducting workshops to gather functional requirements

  • Creating functional specifications

  • Presenting developed solutions

  • Customer contact for the design area

  • Shipment Tracking: functional design of an application for monitoring import, export, and transit shipments across Europe against their planned transport schedules

  • Integration into the Railion Service Online portal RSO

Oct 2002 - Feb 2003

Business Process Management/Modeling

Christian Wegener Beratung

Position summary
Business Process Management/Modeling at Christian Wegener Beratung
Industries
Transportation
Business areas
Operations
  • Conducting workshops to gather functional requirements

  • Process modeling to support complex logistics processes in combined rail freight transport with IT

  • Supporting the design team with regard to process mapping in the ordering system

  • Customer contact for the process model area

  • Presenting developed solutions

  • Process optimization at the transshipment port

Industry experience

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Experienced in Transportation, Information Technology, Professional Services, Banking and Finance, and Pharmaceutical.

Transportation
Information Technology
Professional Services
Banking and Finance
Pharmaceutical
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Business area experience

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Experienced in Quality Assurance, Information Technology, Project Management, Supply Chain Management, Product Development, and Customer Service.

Quality Assurance
Information Technology
Project Management
Supply Chain Management
Product Development
Customer Service
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Summary

Initiative, commitment and a high degree of independence are part of my daily work with employees and clients. By involving everyone involved (subject matter experts, developers, environment team, project management, Product Owner, etc.), the highest possible quality for the product is ensured.

In addition to a solution-oriented and structured way of working, I am characterized by reliability and a high level of commitment. Due to my strong team spirit, I enjoy familiarizing myself quickly with new contexts.

Skills

  • Design, Preparation And Execution Of Functional Module Group, Integration, System And Acceptance Tests

  • Test Organization And Coordination

  • Documentation For Verification And Validation According To Cmmi Level 3

  • Creation Of Test Conditions And Test Scripts

  • Design, Preparation And Execution Of Functional And Non-Functional Tests Using Static And Dynamic Test Methods

  • Test Management

  • Delivery Coordination

  • Defect Management

  • Test Documentation

  • Review

  • Test Automation

  • Software Design For It Support Across The Entire Logistics Chain

  • Participation In Workshops, Development And Specification Of Customer Requirements

  • Creation Of Functional Concepts

  • Expert Knowledge Of Rail Freight Transport - Logistics

  • Ibm Mainframe Mvs/Cics

  • Ibm Mq-Series

  • Jcl / Batchjobs

  • Visual Basic

  • Cobol, Java, Javascript

  • Quintiq

  • Microsoft Mediaroom Presentation Framework Mpf

  • Db2 And Oracle

  • Sql, Uml, Xml, Html

  • Android

  • Hp Quality Center / Alm

  • Rational Clearquest

  • Jira, Confluence

  • Camunda

  • Selenium

  • Toad, Db Visualizer, Sql Developer

  • Soapui

  • Monkeytalk

  • Ibm Host On Demand

  • Tso/Ispf

  • Aris-Toolset

  • Silktest

  • Sap R/3

  • Ultra Edit, Notepad++, Pspad

  • Lotus Notes

  • Ms-Office

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced

Education

Berufsakademie Mannheim

Diplom Ingenieur, Engineering / Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen, Bestandteil: Software-Engineering · Industrial Engineering · Mannheim, Germany

Certifications & licenses

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Experience

Total positions 14
Experience in Transportation 15 y
Avg length 1 y 7 m
Longest experience 4 y 1 m

Expertise

Recent roles Technical Senior Tester and Test Manager, Technical Senior Tester, Test Automation Engineer
Main industries Transportation, Information Technology, Professional Services
Main business areas Quality Assurance, Information Technology, Project Management

Qualifications

Highest degree Bachelor
Certifications earned 3

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Christian is based in Bodenheim, Germany and can operate in on-site, hybrid, and remote work models.

Christian speaks the following languages: German (Native), English (Advanced).

Christian has at least 23 years of experience. During this time, Christian has worked in at least 10 different roles and for 1 company. The average length of individual experience is 2 years and 8 months. Note that Christian may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

Based on recent experience, Christian would be well-suited for roles such as: Technical Senior Tester and Test Manager, Technical Senior Tester, Test Automation Engineer.

Christian's most recent position is Technical Senior Tester and Test Manager at Christian Wegener Beratung.

In recent years, Christian has worked for Christian Wegener Beratung.

Christian is most experienced in industries like Transportation, Information Technology, and Professional Services. Christian also has some experience in Banking and Finance and Pharmaceutical.

Christian is most experienced in business areas like Quality Assurance, Information Technology, and Project Management. Christian also has some experience in Supply Chain Management, Product Development, and Customer Service.

Christian has recently worked in industries like Transportation and Information Technology.

Christian has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology, Quality Assurance, and Customer Service.

Christian holds a Bachelor in Industrial Engineering from Berufsakademie Mannheim.

Christian has 3 certificates. These include: IREB™ Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering - CPRE-FL, ISTQB™ Certified Tester Advanced Level Testmanager - CTAL-TM, and ISTQB™ Certified Tester Foundation Level – CTFL.

The availability of Christian needs to be confirmed.

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