IBM Rational ClearQuest Experts in Munich

• Analysis of affected business processes taking numerous stakeholders into account
• Interface analysis, architecture and system design
• Communicating and coordinating various subprojects and interface partners
• Creating epics and user stories, maintaining the backlog, workshops and review presentations
• Support during implementation between business departments and development
• Test management including strategy and approach definition
• Test case definition, execution and approval
• Cross-team organization of integration and acceptance tests
• Support of test environments
• Technologies and tools: Java, Angular, Kubectl, REST, AWS SNS/SQS, Kafka, S4/HANA, Bruno

• Management of internal and external optics, electronics, and software developers and the subproject managers throughout the entire development process up to handover to production
• Conducting RfP and contract negotiations with German, Chinese, and Japanese manufacturers and tracking the agreed deliverables
• Conducting quality gates throughout the development process
• Responsibility for meeting commercial, technical, and schedule requirements (resource and budget planning)
• Continuous monitoring of potential project risks during all phases
• Ensuring compliant development (RoHS & REACH) and documentation for worldwide CE marking
• Project status reporting to upper management and the company board
• Central point of contact for third-party contractors and their coordination in the project

• Experience in testing of Body Control Module (BCM) using Dspace, Control Desk and EXAM in GHIL (Gesamt HIL).
• Led a team of 8 engineers and managed end-to-end execution of software for each release, from requirement analysis to final validation and release.
• Coordinated with function specialists (Fachabteilung) to analyse requirements and derive test cases.
• Developed test specifications and maintained bidirectional traceability between requirements and test cases.
• Automated test cases and built library functions using EXAM (Audi and VW customer-specific tool for test automation).
• Organised GHIL testing activities for both manual and automated test execution.
• Evaluated and analysed test reports generated from night runs in EXAM.
• Identified software and GHIL issues based on report analysis and created bug tickets for traceability.

• Designed and built from scratch the automation framework using Playwright, Typescript, JavaScript, Gherkin, Cucumber, BDD, Maven, IntelliJ IDEA
• Defined, developed and maintained test plans, test scripts, reports and other QA documentation in Confluence
• Created and maintained test data with SQL Server Management Studio, Toad and Faker.js
• Performed web services and API testing using Swagger Open API, SoapUI, JSON, HTML and XML
• Executed functional, smoke, regression, black box, GUI, cross-browser, UAT and E2E testing using CrossBrowserTesting and Safari Web Inspector
• Integrated and maintained automated scripts within sprints following Kanban, CI/CD, GitHub, Docker, Azure Pipelines, Agile, Scrum, Kafka and Kibana
• Raised and managed defects in Azure DevOps
• Conducted mobile testing with Robot Framework and Appium

• Customer interface and relationship management
• Requirements management and work coordination
• Technical and functional support focusing on automotive Ethernet

• Pre-assessments and review of functional safety status for ADAS ECUs and body controller components
• Conduct functional safety audits
• Review the functional safety status of the E3 1.2 in a pre-assessment
• Document interviews
• Document findings and generate internal reports

Methods:

• ISO26262
• Automotive SPICE Level 2, 3
• Agile methods, SAFe

Tools:

• DOORS
• Enterprise Architect
• JIRA & Confluence
• IQ-FMEA
• Isograph

• Transformation project to S/4HANA
• Test management and coordination of functional tests for SAP
• Preparation and support of tests (SIT 1+2, MOCK 1+2, UAT) as part of the SAP S/4HANA rollout (SD, MM, FI/CO, MD)
• Creation of test strategies, test plans, and test cases to ensure system quality
• Monitoring and compliance with service level agreements (SLAs) as well as ensuring the timely delivery of agreed performance indicators
• Coordination of the approach with test managers from other regions (US, JP)
• Planning of European test activities in the SAP implementation project in cooperation with test managers from the supplier
• Coordination of interdisciplinary business and technical test teams in Europe
• Business collaboration with global implementation partners
• Use of Tricentis qTest and ValGenesis as test management tools (for validation-relevant processes)
• Training functional consultants in testing and test tools
• Creation and evaluation of change requests, including effort estimation, prioritization, and tracking
• Reporting on test progress

• Designing and implementing an interactive evaluation system for top executives to rate core competencies such as goal orientation, team culture, and strategic alignment.
• Integrating control mechanisms to enforce feedback limits and store evaluations in a central system to ensure data integrity.
• Optimizing data processing for personnel development by automating the merging of various information sources for form letters.
• Implementing technical data preparation and analysis for the annual compensation comparison in the financial sector.
• Developing automated processes for data preparation in Excel using Power Query, ensuring data integrity and anonymization according to data protection requirements.
• Automating personnel cost analysis by developing a solution to process data from the Paisy system into an SAP-compatible Excel file.
• Creating test cases, user documentation, and test plans for all developed systems.
• Technologies: Power Query, MS Office 2016 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Paisy, SAP, VBA.

• SBAM (Sendungsbasiert Auftragsmanagement System) is the core component responsible for splitting customer deliveries into individual letters based on contractual agreements (OLA/SLA).
• Transformation from proprietary host-based AS/400 applications to a modern stack using Java, PostgreSQL, Apache Kafka, MinIO S3, Red Hat OpenShift, Keycloak SSO, Salesforce and Angular Material GUI.
• Application design, solution architecture, use case specification and OLA/SLA concept for end customers.
• Conduct solution architecture/design and requirements engineering (elicitation, documentation, validation, negotiation and ongoing management) in Confluence, including UML/BPMN process models.
• Development and analysis according to Scrum using Jira and Confluence.
• Design user journeys and UI experience; wireframing with Balsamiq and Figma.
• Document requirements as user stories and epics in Jira; create stakeholder and technical design documents.
• Participate in end-to-end solution design, architecture and event-driven messaging design.
• Perform process modelling (UML/BPMN with Draw.io), application internal architecture design and ERM/SERM data modelling.
• Lead sprint planning, story refinement, estimation, retrospective and review meetings; deliver C-level management presentations on OLA/SLA and order management.

• Evaluation of RAG for legal advisory (build or buy)
• Evaluation and POC of RAG for an ERP time tracking module
• Consulting on foundation model selection
• Setup AI development environment (eliminating shadow AI)
• AI strategy consulting
• AI-assisted code creation and context engineering make change sets larger
• Strong software engineering expertise, code reviews and safeguarding through pipelines and domain-specific automated test cases