Cucumber Experts in Austria
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Austria, who have recently used Cucumber
Jaroslav A.
Last position:
Child care, personal development and learning
Namik D.
Last position:
Test Manager / Test Automation Engineer at Sky Deutschland GmbH
- Implemented and maintained 443 automated test cases with a 99% pass rate (441/443)
- Enabled CI for test automation: automated runs on review/merge, reporting via Xray
- Introduced accessibility and performance checks and established them in reporting
- Served as QA lead in daily operations with stand-ups, Kanban progress tracking, prioritization, and targeted task distribution
- Handled defect triage and stakeholder communication with daily triage, QA status analysis, and actionable recommendations
- Developed and maintained a stable regression suite for CRM/Salesforce flows (UI/E2E and near-API validations)
- Integrated CI/CD using Jenkins pipelines with Groovy (IaC)
- Maintained QA documentation, test conventions, and processes in Confluence, aligned across the team
- Conducted Salesforce Einstein chatbot testing with intent/topic validation and output checks, and used Robot Framework/Python suites for continuous quality monitoring
- Technology stack: Jira, Xray, Confluence, Jenkins, Groovy, Git, Java, Selenium, Playwright, Cucumber, TypeScript, Postman, REST, Salesforce, Google Cloud, Lighthouse, Evinced, Scrum/Kanban, BDD (Gherkin)
Thomas P.
Last position:
QA Tech Lead at ready2order GmbH
- Leading a team of QA Engineers
- Implementing effective test strategies, driving the test automation strategy forward
- Hands-on testing for the web and mobile application (iOS, Android)
- Creating, maintaining, and executing test plans as well as documenting test results (Testrail)
- Evaluating and integrating new tools to improve the testing process (e.g. Playwright)
Joseph W.
Last position:
Freelancer Cloud / Solution Architect (AWS) at A1 Bank
- I am responsible for providing solution architecture and technical assistance for a migration initiative aimed at transitioning to a new core banking system.
- The project involves replacing in-house development with a commercially available off-the-shelf core banking system operated as SaaS on AWS.
- Duties encompass solution design, technical coordination, supporting development teams, and providing IT support and troubleshooting.
- Managing over 10 global vendors and partners is crucial to project success.
- Technologies: VMWare ESXi, AWS, EKS Kubernetes, Mastercard Payment Transaction Service, Avaloq, A1 Telekom Austria infrastructure, CheckPoint FW, F5, Site-to-Site VPNs, PingID, Futurae SDK, Airlock, UC4/Automic, Firebase, iOS/Android lifecycle management, AWS IAM, AWS AppStream, AWS S3, AWS Transfer Family, QlikView, OpenAPI.
Vladislav F.
Last position:
Senior Test Automation Engineer / Test Manager at Stadt Wien – WUKSEA
- Creating test scenarios, manual test cases and test data using boundary value analysis and equivalence classes
- Executing functional and non-functional tests (manually with Postman and web application, automated with WebDriver, JUnit and NUnit)
- Setting up, automating and maintaining the test automation framework with Java, Spring Boot, Selenium and Cucumber in IntelliJ (system, regression, smoke, UI and integration tests for web front-end and SOAP API backend interfaces)
- Automating backend NUnit test cases in Visual Studio
- Test management: developing and implementing test strategy and test plans, controlling tests, quality ownership and prioritizing risk-based tests, as well as maintaining documentation in Confluence
- Detailed analysis and quality assurance of requirements
- Creating and maintaining Jenkins pipelines, ensuring quality in build & deployment
- Close collaboration with business analysts, developers, testers and test management
- Identifying, creating and tracking defects/bugs, with thorough test documentation
- Reporting test results and defect reports
- Monitoring test processes and continuous improvements
- Reviewing test data and test results in PostgreSQL database via pgAdmin
- Supporting effort estimation and backlog prioritization
- Analyzing and debugging development code System environment: Java, JUnit, Spring Boot, Selenium, Cucumber, JavaScript, Jenkins, C#, NUnit, Postman, Bitbucket, Confluence, Jira, xRay, pgAdmin, PostgreSQL, SonarQube, Maven, IntelliJ, Visual Studio, CI/CD, SOAP API interfaces
Nedim K.
Last position:
Manual Tester and Test Automation Engineer at IT-Systemhaus der Bundesagentur für Arbeit
- Design appropriate test cases to verify the GUI in Azure Test Plans
- Creation and execution of manual test cases
- Test design for user stories to be implemented in the current sprint
- Analysis of deviations/bugs based on log files and Kibana dashboards
- Creation of bug tickets with error description, screenshots, and short videos
- Prioritization of open bug tickets together with the PO
- Retest of bugs and hotfixes
- Execution of manual tests to ensure a 100% fulfillment rate of all functional requirements
- Selection, installation, and maintenance of a test automation tool (Selenium)
- Implementation of automated regression tests
- Continuous expansion of the object repository and adaptation of automated test cases (acceptance, integration, and system tests)
- Creation of test logs before each sprint change
Kurt B.
Last position:
Backend / Microservice Developer, DevOps, Test Automation at RCA, Rail Cargo Austria AG
- Backend / Microservice Developer, DevOps, Test Automation
- ~100 Devs, ~10 Teams, per team: 1 PO, 1 Scrum Master, 1 UX, 1 Developer, 1 Tester
- .net core 8, 9, C#
- Microservices, Clean-Architecture, MediatR, CQRS
- GraphQL, REST, SDL
- Azure DevOps, CI / CD-pipelines, Azure-Service Bus, Rabbit-MQ, Kafka, Azure App Configuration, Azure KeyVault, Azure Kubernetes AKS
- Splunk, dashboards, custom metrics, Elastic-Search, Kibana (ELK)
- Azure SQL-Databases, Azure Cosmos DB
- Architecture decisions, event governance, COP (Backend, DevOps, FrontEnt, Test Automations)
- AI, Copilot, creating test templates
- Scheduler, Hangfire, Quartz
- Automated unit and integration tests
- Automated E2E tests, Playwright test automation, BDD, Gherkin, Cucumber
- Tracking of shipments
- GIS, GPS data, geofence, geo search, position tracking, asset positions
- Jira, Confluence
- Focus on high-performance message-oriented architecture (~xx million messages per month per service)
- Structured logging, Serilog, OTel, Splunk, Application Monitoring
- Integration of different position data sources (GPS-based data) into Azure Data Lake
Javid A.
Last position:
B2B Contract - Senior Fullstack developer (Java + Angular)
- Project: E-Platform with 100k users
- Skills: Java, Spring, Spring Boot
- TechStack: Angular 18, Java 17, Spring Boot, Oracle DB, Spring Data, JPA, Hibernate, Oracle, Postgres, SQL
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Statistics of experts using Cucumber
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
18 years
Position duration
2 years
Positions per freelancer
10
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Quality Assurance
Top industries
Information Technology, Insurance, Transportation
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Quality Assurance, Product Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
86%
Master's degree or higher
57%
Certifications per freelancer
4
Most common languages
German, English, Bosnian
Speak two or more languages
100%
Based on our profile pool as of 19 Sep 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of freelancers in this technology in Austria are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows how many freelancers charge within that range.
Average rates of experts in Austria using Cucumber
Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.
The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.
The median daily rate is the middle value of all daily rates — half of comparable freelancers charge less, half charge more. Unlike the average, it is barely affected by outliers.
Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 19 Sep 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
Cucumber experts industry focus
See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.
- Information Technology (100%)
- Insurance (63%)
- Transportation (63%)
- Banking and Finance (50%)
- Manufacturing (38%)
- Telecommunication (38%)
- Education (25%)
- Government and Administration (25%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
Behaviour-driven testing
Cucumber is a behaviour-driven development framework that expresses software behaviour in plain-language scenarios. Teams write Given, When, Then steps in Gherkin, then connect those steps to executable code. This creates a shared specification that product owners, specialists and technical teams can review together.
What teams build
Cucumber is used to verify business-critical journeys rather than isolated implementation details. Common deliverables include:
- Acceptance tests for web, mobile and desktop applications
- API and service-level scenarios for distributed systems
- Regression suites for releases and critical workflows
- Living documentation linked to executable specifications
- Data-driven scenarios for roles, permissions and business rules
Ecosystem and tooling
Cucumber supports several programming languages, including Java, JavaScript, Ruby and Kotlin. Experts commonly combine it with Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, REST clients or Appium, depending on the application under test. Maven, Gradle, npm, JUnit, TestNG and CI tools help teams execute, report and maintain scenarios across environments.
When freelance expertise helps
Companies often bring in a Cucumber specialist when acceptance tests are growing inconsistently, releases lack dependable coverage or business rules are difficult to document. In Austria, this can be useful for distributed teams that need clear collaboration between German-speaking stakeholders and international delivery groups. Remote work is practical when repositories, environments and review processes are well prepared; on-site workshops can help establish shared language and test conventions.
Skills behind effective scenarios
Strong professionals understand both Gherkin and the application under test. They design concise scenarios around observable outcomes, create reusable step definitions without hiding intent, and separate test data from test logic. They also know how to manage flaky browser tests, asynchronous systems, test isolation, parallel execution and useful reporting.
Choosing the right specialist
Look for someone who can show how Cucumber scenarios improved shared understanding without becoming a duplicate of every implementation detail. Good specialists ask about architecture, release risk, test ownership and the current CI process before proposing a framework. They leave behind readable feature files, stable automation, clear documentation and a maintenance approach the internal team can continue.
Frequently asked questions
Everything clients usually want to know about Cucumber, in one place.
Cucumber is used to express software behaviour as readable Gherkin scenarios and execute those scenarios as automated acceptance tests. It is especially useful for validating customer journeys, business rules, APIs and integrations across a wider system.
Cucumber focuses on shared business-readable specifications, while unit tests usually validate small code units and end-to-end tools drive complete applications. It can work with tools such as Selenium, Playwright or REST clients, but it does not replace lower-level tests or the automation library itself.
A strong Cucumber freelancer should understand the relevant programming language, test design and CI delivery. Experience with Selenium, Playwright, API testing, JUnit, TestNG, version control and test data management is valuable when the work involves a complete automation setup.
The right Cucumber specialist depends on the scope, application architecture and condition of the existing test suite, not on a fixed duration of experience. A smaller scenario refactoring task may need focused automation expertise, while a new BDD approach requires facilitation, framework design and CI knowledge.
Cucumber is well suited to remote collaboration because Gherkin scenarios provide a shared artefact for product and technical discussions. Teams in Austria should agree on language, terminology, review routines and access to test environments; remote delivery works well, while workshops may still benefit from occasional on-site sessions.
Ask a Cucumber specialist to explain how they keep scenarios concise, independent and focused on behaviour rather than implementation. Review the stability of the suite, the clarity of step definitions, failure diagnostics, CI integration and whether non-technical stakeholders can understand the feature files.
Cucumber can describe API scenarios and execute them through suitable HTTP or service-testing libraries, so browser automation is not required. API-focused suites are often faster and more stable when the business behaviour can be validated without rendering a user interface.
A Cucumber suite becomes difficult to maintain when scenarios are overly detailed, step definitions are duplicated, test data is shared or browser interactions are hidden behind vague steps. Clear ownership, stable interfaces, isolated data and regular removal of obsolete scenarios keep the suite useful.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Austria who have used Cucumber in their recent projects is 88 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 706 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Austria who have used Cucumber in their recent projects, 86% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 57% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers in Austria who have used Cucumber in their recent projects have 18 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Austria who have used Cucumber in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and Bosnian (38%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Austria who have used Cucumber in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Insurance (63%), and Transportation (63%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Austria who have used Cucumber in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (100%), and Quality Assurance (75%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Cucumber
Our freelancers and interim experts are at home across the DACH region — available on-site in the major business hubs or fully remote. Choose a location to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.
Countries:
- Germany
- Austria
- Switzerland
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