Knut Nickol

Development of a comprehensive web SEO tool from scratch. Product Owner, Vibe Developer, Tester

SEO, SEA, GEO, integrations: OpenAI, Google Search Console, PageSpeed API, Google Insight API, Google My Business, SerpAPI, payment provider API.

Claude Code, GIT, GitHub, PHP, MySQL, Alpine.js

Sales system (booking system) in an agile SAFe environment

Focus areas: Tester and Quality Coordinator

Activities: Creating and executing test cases including documentation Coordinating QA across the entire development process

Tasks/Activities:

• Manual testing: DB Navigator, bahn.de and employee frontend VSPro
• Requirements analysis, creation, execution, reporting of test cases
• Central contact for QA questions
• Participation in design workshops and identifying risks from a QA perspective
• Performing DoR checks on requirements
• Checking adherence to deadlines
• Supporting the teams from a QA perspective up to acceptance

Methods: SAFe, Kanban, Agile

Deliverables: Test case catalog, test reports Acceptance statements Service agreements/SLAs with third-party providers QA-secured development: DB Navigator, bahn.de, employee frontend VSPro

Technologies/Tools: Android Studio, XRAY, JIRA, Confluence, Office 365, Git, Grafana, CI/CD

• On-board staff information system in an agile environment
• Focus areas: tester, hands-on test manager
• Creating and executing test cases including documentation
• Coordinating quality assurance across the entire development process
• Requirements analysis as well as creating and executing test cases for mobile apps
• Coordinating the test team of 5 people
• Creating test reports and release declarations
• Participation in agile meetings
• Client contact for quality assurance topics
• Methods: Kanban, Agile
• Deliverables: test reports, release declarations
• Technologies/Tools: Android, JIRA, XRAY, ALM, MS Office

• Requirements analysis for a real estate portal (B2C, B2B) in an agile environment
• Main focus: requirements engineer, business analyst, business engineer
• Ensuring business and technical requirements
• Point of contact for product owners and the development team
• Requirements analysis and creation of epics and user stories
• Partially taking on the Scrum Master role
• Communication between the development team and product owner
• Methods: Kanban, Agile
• Results: agile deliverables (epics, user stories), smooth development of the web portal
• Technologies/Tools: JIRA, Confluence, Invision, MS Office

• Quality assurance and testing of the Deutsche Börse AG website
• Main focus: test management, testing, product owner
• Single point of contact for the service provider in the web environment
• Test management and execution of user acceptance tests and end-to-end tests
• Test case creation and reporting of test results
• Communication and alignment with the external service provider
• Coordination of development according to the release plan
• Support for rollouts and go-lives
• Execution and management of testing activities
• Methods: Kanban, Agile
• Results: successful go-lives and rollouts
• Technologies/Tools: JIRA, Confluence, iOS, Android

• QA and testing of Deutsche Telekom billing software
• Acting subproject management in the quality assurance environment
• Test planning, test data creation, and test execution
• Planning and execution of migration tests
• Project planning and milestone scheduling
• Modeling data models
• Coordinating test activities and test data creation
• Reviewing technical specifications
• Creating test concepts, test plans, and status reports
• Planning and documenting test cases
• Validating test results
• Organizing and leading meetings
• Tools: BMC/ARS Remedy, MS Project, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Sybase PowerDesigner, Mercury Quality Center, SoapUI, HP/Mercury Quality Center (user level, reports)

• Time-critical project: redesign of the T-Online customer center
• Leading quality assurance for an offshore development
• Ensuring test measures and activities in the project
• Coordinating test activities between onshore and offshore teams
• Communicating between departments and developers
• Creating and reviewing test scenarios and test cases
• Generating test data
• Executing system tests and system integration tests
• Configuring the test environment
• Tools: ClearCase, WinRunner, TOAD, PuTTY, UltraEdit, BEA WebLogic, Unix

• Project management and support in new media with a focus on QA and testing
• Project management and operational support
• Requirements management and controlling
• Communication between departments
• Advising on web usability
• UI testing and functionality analysis
• Aligning a style guide for web interfaces
• Conducting and documenting functional tests

• Web interfaces and HTML frameworks for corporate websites
• Consultation on usability, style guides, corporate identity, and corporate design
• Creation of HTML templates
• Creation of search forms and result lists
• Creation of CSS for layout and design
• Writing a concise style guide
• Technologies/Tools: HTML, CSS, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Homesite, UltraEdit

• Intranet and internet projects in a corporate environment
• Web programming, content creation, and graphic design
• Consulting, design, development, and maintenance of various intranet sites
• Communication between departments
• Creation of parts of the website according to internal guidelines
• Creation of multiple online forums (e.g. sales market forum, HR FAQ forum)
• Requirements gathering (business analysis) and creation of specifications
• Consulting on usability and software ergonomics (GUI, style guide, corporate design, branding)
• Installation, administration, and configuration of search engines (Verity, ht.DIG) including search forms
• Creation of smart forms with JavaScript
• Customization of form mailers
• Creation of online help and documentation
• Programming of Perl and PHP scripts, MySQL, and JavaScript
• Content preparation and creation, as well as editorial work
• Graphic and web design
• Technologies/Tools: HTML/DHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Perl/CGI, PHP, MySQL, phpMyAdmin, MySQL-Front, RedDot web content management system, Homesite, UltraEdit, Photoshop, MS Office

• Implementation of over 100 websites and online shop systems
• Implementation using systems such as Magento, Joomla!, Contao, Typo3, modifiedShop, WordPress, Kunena Forum, phpBB Forum, phpList newsletter system and others
• Concept, design and technical implementation of websites and shops
• Consulting on web technologies, CMS and online shop systems
• Focus on usability, responsive design and performance
• Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, Responsive Design, Linux, Apache

• Diploma thesis in mechanical engineering/aerospace in cooperation with MBB
• Capturing the physical environment of a technical system
• Converting the mathematical description into a numerical model
• Determining meaningful parametric inputs
• Visualizing processes and results
• Defining optimal parameter settings
• Developing a new solution followed by a patent application
• Documenting the patent application
• Thesis grade: Very good
• Technologies/Tools: QuickBasic, Windows 3.1, MS Word