Cucumber Experts in Austria
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Austria, who have recently used Cucumber
Namik Delilovic
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 Pacher
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 Wagner
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 Filipic
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 Kupusovic
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 Blumenschein
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 Asgarov
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
Jaroslav Abraham
Last position:
Child care, personal development and learning
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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 30 Aug 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 30 Aug 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
About the technology
What Cucumber does
Cucumber is a behaviour-driven testing tool used to describe software in plain language and turn those scenarios into executable checks. Teams use it to define expected behaviour before or alongside implementation. It helps product, QA, and engineering specialists speak the same language.
Where it fits
- Acceptance tests for web, API, and mobile flows
- Living documentation for business rules
- Regression coverage for critical user journeys
- Specification by example across product teams
Cucumber is often used with Gherkin, and in JVM stacks it appears as Cucumber JVM. In Austria, it is common in distributed product teams that need clean handoffs between business and technical specialists.
Ecosystem and tools
Strong professionals know the full stack around Cucumber: Gherkin syntax, step definitions, hooks, tags, data setup, and reporting. They also work with JUnit, TestNG, Selenium, Playwright, Rest Assured, and CI pipelines so scenarios run in a stable way.
When companies bring help
Teams usually ask for freelance expertise when their scenario suite has become slow, brittle, or too broad to trust. That also happens when they are starting behaviour-driven testing, migrating old tests, or need better structure around reusable steps and test data.
What good specialists deliver
Good Cucumber specialists write scenarios that describe behaviour, not implementation details. They keep step language consistent, reduce duplication, and make failures easy to read. They also know when not to force every check into Cucumber and when another test layer is a better fit.
Working model
For Austria-based teams, Cucumber work can be fully remote or combined with on-site workshops when product, QA, and delivery leads need to align on behaviour rules. The best experts can discuss requirements in clear English and adapt to local team routines. They document decisions so the suite stays useful after handover.
Frequently asked questions
Everything clients usually want to know about Cucumber, in one place.
Cucumber is used to describe expected behaviour in plain language and turn those scenarios into automated checks. Companies use it for acceptance testing, regression coverage, and shared understanding between product and technical specialists.
Cucumber is the testing tool, while Gherkin is the language used to write the scenarios. Cucumber JVM is the Java implementation many teams use in JVM-based stacks. People often search with any of these names when they need the same kind of expertise.
A strong Cucumber specialist helps when the scenario suite is flaky, repetitive, or no longer reflects real business behaviour. Companies also bring in help when they want to start behaviour-driven testing with clear standards for scenarios, steps, and reporting.
Good Cucumber professionals usually know Gherkin, step definition design, test hooks, tags, and reliable test data setup. They often work with Selenium, Playwright, API testing tools, JUnit, and CI pipelines so the suite runs well in delivery workflows.
Cucumber is stronger when the goal is readable business behaviour and cross-team agreement. Unit and integration tests are usually better for lower-level logic and technical coverage. Many teams use Cucumber for a thin behaviour layer and keep the deeper checks elsewhere.
A Cucumber project needs more than someone who can write scenarios. It needs a specialist who understands how to keep scenarios stable, reduce step duplication, and choose the right scope for each check. That matters even more on larger suites.
Yes, Cucumber works well in remote setups because scenarios are easy to review in shared language. Austria-based teams often use remote collaboration for day-to-day work and add on-site sessions when they want to align on behaviour rules or workshop new scenarios.
Look for a Cucumber expert who writes scenarios around outcomes, not implementation details, and who can explain why each scenario exists. Strong candidates can show clean step reuse, readable failure output, and a practical view of where Cucumber should stop and other tests should begin.
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 707 € 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.
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