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Marc Smyk

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Fullstack Engineer | Java & Spring Boot | Angular | System Integration

Leverkusen
Marc Smyk

Last position:

Fullstack Developer at PLANT-MY-TREE

PLANT-MY-TREE®-per-order

The application enables Shopify merchants to automatically place tree-planting orders for every incoming order. By integrating ecological contributions directly into the purchase process, the manual effort for tracking and billing reforestation initiatives is eliminated. The system increases transparency for end customers through real-time visualizations of the ecological impact directly in the storefront. The architecture is based on a modular monolith with Spring Boot in the backend and an integrated React app inside the Shopify admin area. The solution uses webhooks to capture order data in an event-driven way and integrates the weclapp ERP system for automated monthly invoicing. An app proxy mechanism provides dynamic statistics such as CO2 compensation and planted trees without any performance loss for the merchant shop.

Tasks:

  • Design of the modular software architecture based on Spring Modulith to ensure high maintainability
  • Development of the event-driven business logic for evaluating Shopify orders via webhooks
  • Implementation of automated invoicing by connecting the weclapp REST API
  • Building the frontend using React Router and Shopify App Bridge for native integration
  • Design of the database model and implementation of the persistence layer with JPA/Hibernate and Prisma
  • Integration of internationalization processes for global use in the frontend and email communication
  • Automation of deployment processes using Docker and GitLab CI/CD

Project skills: Java 25, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Modulith, Hibernate, JPA, REST API, PostgreSQL, Maven, Liquibase, React, TypeScript, React Router, Vite, Node.js, Prisma, Zod, Docker, Docker Compose, GitLab CI/CD, Shopify CLI, Shopify App Bridge, Polaris, weclapp, i18next, Lombok, Vitest

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Rainer Langbehn

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Senior IT Consultant, Senior Software Architect, Senior Software Developer, Senior DevOps Engineer

Cologne
Rainer Langbehn

Last position:

Senior IT Consultant, Senior Software Architect, Senior Software Developer, Senior DevOps Engineer at Techniker Krankenkasse

  • Automation of the database major / minor releases for the TKeasy project

  • Concept for database major / minor release automation

  • As-is analysis

  • Evaluation of Redgate Flyway functionality

  • Concept creation

  • Products: Redgate Flyway, GitHub, Quest, Erwin Data Modeller, Oracle, Atlassian Jira, Atlassian Confluence

  • Skills: Docker, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Redgate Flyway, Major Releases, Minor Releases

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Thomas Pawlitzki

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Freelance Software Architect

Köln
Thomas Pawlitzki

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Freelance Software Architect at Self-employed

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Markus Glagla

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Full Stack Developer

Frechen
Markus Glagla

Last position:

Full Stack Developer at REWE Digital

  • A warehouse valuation system was reimplemented using Java, Spring Boot, and Camunda. The backend solution focuses on integration and batch calculations, the frontend on managing formulas and reviewing results.
  • Java 21
  • Spring Boot
  • JPA
  • Maven
  • REST
  • Kafka
  • PostgreSQL
  • DB2
  • Liquibase
  • Google Cloud Storage
  • Keycloak
  • GitLab CI/CD
  • Helm
  • Terragrunt
  • SonarQube
  • Angular
  • IntelliJ
  • JUnit 5
  • Mockito
  • Open API
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Jens Hagemeyer-Lee

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#52 Test Manager in Safety-Critical Infrastructure

Köln
Jens Hagemeyer-Lee

Last position:

#52 Test Manager in Safety-Critical Infrastructure at Telecommunications Company

  • Network elements, network, operational and operator-related systems
  • Supporting around 20 different products (managed agile)
  • Requirements analysis and management (functional and non-functional)
  • Test concept and planning (scope, test phases, effort, schedule, resources, organization, etc.)
  • Aligning approach with clients and service providers
  • Managing and assisting in creation of test cases for system, integration and end-to-end tests
  • Guiding and supporting test execution
  • Defect management and planning bug fixes with external providers
  • Preparing and facilitating workshops
  • Regular reporting and creating automated test reports
  • Further development of agile testing methodology and configuration of supporting tools
  • Conceptual support in developing a quality seal for rating product and service quality of internal and external providers
  • Requirements engineering based on ISO/IEC 25010, Scrum, SaFE
  • BMC Remedy, Atlassian Confluence, Atlassian Jira (including plugins Xray, Structure), Microsoft Office (incl. Visio), Obsidian, doxis document management system, Gitlab, Obsidian
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Ayhan Gezer

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Senior QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer / SDET

Cologne
Ayhan Gezer

Last position:

Senior QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer / SDET at Rewe digital

Consulting, designing, and implementing the software testing lifecycle for multiple Android apps and backends Introducing test automation with Appium, SpringBootTest, RestAssured Setting up and managing emulators Developing an E2E library, an integration library, a Testcontainers library, and other libraries Developing, implementing, and advising on CI strategies Building the test environment with Testcontainers and virtualization Developing and implementing test cases for integration tests and end-to-end tests Establishing a maintainable test architecture with low entry barriers to simplify the creation of automated tests Some tools and technologies used: JUnit, RestAssured, Testcontainers, Kubedock, Appium, Android emulator, Jira Xray, Mockito, WireMock, Spring Framework, Kotlin

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Predrag Perovic

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Test Developer | Test Automator

Leverkusen
Predrag Perovic

Last position:

Test Developer | Test Automator at CreditReform

Technologies: Java 25, Selenium, Insomnia, SSO, GitLab, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Jira, IntelliJ, Nexus, Oracle, MariaDB, Spring Boot, Grafana, Concept Board, Vue.js, OpenAPI, Kotlin. Implementation, maintenance, and extension of automated end-to-end regression tests for UI and API interfaces. Appropriate and targeted test automation across multiple software products, including Java-based Windows applications. Automating business processes with Selenium, reset jobs, and DB import jobs, as well as creating test concepts, test case descriptions, and structured bug reporting.

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Alexander Vasiliev

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Software Architect / Software Engineer / Tech Lead

Cologne
Alexander Vasiliev

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Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer at Kaufland e-commerce / real.digital (ex hitmeister.de)

  • Evolved the platform from bare-metal infrastructure with a monolithic PHP application to a hybrid Google Cloud architecture with Go microservices on Kubernetes
  • Managed and scaled a production infrastructure with 300+ VMs and dozens of clusters, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Redis and Elasticsearch clusters
  • Designed architecture, deployment, monitoring, performance analysis, and upgrades for all platform services using Terraform and Ansible
  • Migrated observability systems from ELK and Prometheus to Datadog, managed with Terraform
  • Introduced Jenkins CI/CD with SonarQube integration and automated tests to speed up feedback cycles
  • Containerized the testing environment and implemented GitLab CI pipelines for Docker image builds, static code analysis, and infrastructure tests
  • Performed zero-downtime migrations of MySQL and MongoDB clusters to Google Cloud
  • Developed reusable Ansible roles for database clusters and automated data obfuscation for staging environments
  • Decomposed monolithic databases and migrated to microservice architectures
  • Built tools to detect and optimize slow queries in MySQL and MongoDB
  • Conducted online schema migrations with pt-online-schema-change without downtime windows
  • Developed internal Go applications for batch queries, GitLab-Jira integration, and MongoDB backup recovery
  • Technologies: Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, Go, Bash, Python, PHP, SQL, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Drone CI, MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Nomad, Ansible, Terraform, Grafana, ELK, Prometheus, Datadog, Nagios, Zabbix, Nginx, HAProxy, Vault, Helm, SonarQube, Filebeat, Auditbeat, Google Cloud, AWS
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Vladimir Maznicenko

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Developer

Brühl
Vladimir Maznicenko

Last position:

Developer at Financial services provider

  • Support and further development of a framework for developing applications in a banking association: DynS/OSPE
  • Migration of the framework to Java 11 and Java 17
  • Java8, Java11 and Java17, Spring, Spring-Batch, Spring WebServices, Spring-Security, Spring-Data, JPA, Hibernate, OpenSource libraries etc.
  • XML, JAXB, JSON, REST and SOAP services, DB2, Oracle, WebSphere or Liberty AS, FreeMaker, Junit, mock libraries, JaCoCo, Maven, IntelliJ, Eclipse, GitHub, SVN, Jira
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Louis Nguenkam

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Specialist in Adobe Experience Manager & Microservices

Bergheim
Louis Nguenkam

Last position:

Specialist in Adobe Experience Manager & Microservices at Nguenkam Consulting & Engineering

  • Java 11/21

  • Springboot

  • Swagger/OpenApi

  • Azure Pipelines

  • Trivy Integration

  • Apache Sling

  • OSGI

  • Java Content Repository (JCR)

  • Apache Jackrabbit Oak

  • Adobe HTL

  • GraphQL

  • Maven

  • GitLab

  • IntelliJ

  • Azure Cloud

  • Azure DevOps

  • Terraform

  • AEM specialist in the Scrum team

  • Development and deployment of microservices via Open API interfaces

  • Operation of microservices in the Azure Cloud

  • Implementation of AEM modules and integration with microservices

  • Member of the knowledge transfer team and a backend coordination team

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Jacqueline Haefke

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Düsseldorf
Jacqueline Haefke

Last position:

Kitchen Appliance Manufacturer

  • Setting up and enhancing an international subscription management system

  • Migrating and decommissioning a Hybris-SAP system and integrating Zuora

  • Implementing numerous interfaces to various systems (external and internal)

  • Setting up and improving monitoring with Grafana, Prometheus, and Databricks

  • Introducing logging with Loki

  • Implementing business requirements using jQuery, Thymeleaf, Spring Boot, Java, Go, and Python

  • Adjusting and extending the GitLab CI pipelines

  • Setting up and extending infrastructure as code with Terraform and ArgoCD on AWS

  • Setting up and running E2E and performance tests

  • Expanding the Databricks business intelligence solution to provide various KPIs

  • Responsibilities: Architecture, DevOps, development, unit tests, coaching employees and apprentices, E2E, smoke, and integration tests, agile methods consulting (Kanban, Scrum)

  • Technologies and methods: Java, Go, Kotlin, Node.js, Spring Boot, SOAP/REST, Quarkus, Thymeleaf, Vaadin, Slack, Jira, Confluence, IntelliJ, GitLab, SQS, Kafka, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Maven, Gradle, GitLab CI, Databricks

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Vishali Thangalapally

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Senior Analyst

Köln
Vishali Thangalapally

Last position:

Senior Analyst at Accenture

  • Facilitated data retrieval for first-assist applications through an interface that fetches content based on client input criteria and loads it into the database via batch processing.
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Kay Odenthal

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Fullstack Developer

Köln
Kay Odenthal

Last position:

Fullstack Developer at INIT GmbH

  • Development of monitoring and control systems for public transport
  • Development of a platform for real-time monitoring of passenger information and ticketing systems and an application for remote control and status monitoring of access systems
  • Development of dynamic forms, complex tables, real-time dashboards (SignalR), and reusable components in the frontend (using Storybook)
  • Implementation of REST interfaces in the backend
  • Deployment to Microsoft Azure Cloud
  • Technologies used: Angular 20, Angular Material 3, Dev Extreme, Storybook, C#/.NET 10
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Building test automation with Cucumber

Cologne

Last position:

Rewe Digital

  • Creation of Spring Boot integration tests
  • Creation of JUnit tests for the coupon system
  • Creation of component tests for Kafka topics
  • Creation of CI/CD pipeline scripts
  • Creation of UI tests with Playwright
  • Creation of UI tests with Cypress
  • Review of developer unit tests
  • Planning the test architecture for integration tests
  • Creation of the test automation concept
  • Evaluation and creation of test reports

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Statistics of experts using JUnit

Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.

Experience

20 years (Germany: 19 years)

Position duration

1.7 years (Germany: 1.9 years)

Positions per freelancer

14 (Germany: 13)

Top business areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Quality Assurance

Top industries

Information Technology, Retail, Banking and Finance

Certification focus areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Human Resources

Bachelor's degree or higher

100% (Germany: 91%)

Master's degree or higher

69% (Germany: 54%)

Doctorate

15% (Germany: 8%)

Certifications per freelancer

2 (Germany: 3)

Most common languages

German, English, French

Speak two or more languages

100% (Germany: 96%)

Based on our profile pool as of 30 Aug 2026.

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Average rates of experts in Cologne using JUnit

Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.

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Daily rate avg. 723 €
Germany avg. 731 €

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Median rate 720 €
Germany median 720 €

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 JUnit is

JUnit is the standard testing framework for Java code. It helps specialists write repeatable unit and integration tests, check edge cases, and catch regressions before release. Teams use it to protect core business logic, APIs, and backend services.

Where it fits

JUnit shows up in modern Java delivery across services, libraries, and platform code. It is often paired with:

  • Maven or Gradle test pipelines
  • JUnit 5 and the Jupiter API
  • Mockito, AssertJ, and Hamcrest
  • Spring Boot test suites and CI runs

Why companies bring in specialists

Companies look for freelance JUnit specialists when test suites are slow, brittle, or missing around critical code. They also bring in outside help during refactors, migrations from JUnit 4 to JUnit 5, and release hardening before a major launch. In Cologne, this is common for teams that need support without adding long internal onboarding.

What strong experts do

Strong professionals do more than write assertions. They structure tests well, isolate dependencies, use parameterized tests where they fit, and keep naming and setup clean. They also spot weak test design, flaky behavior, and gaps in coverage around exceptions, time, and data boundaries.

Common project work

Typical JUnit work includes fixing failing tests, improving build reliability, and creating test patterns for new modules. It also includes reviewing existing suites, adding coverage around service logic, and setting up test execution in CI so teams can trust every merge.

Hiring signals

Bring in a JUnit expert when:

  • Java changes ship without enough automated tests
  • CI fails because tests are flaky or slow
  • a JUnit 4 codebase needs a clean move to JUnit 5
  • Spring or microservice tests need better structure
  • local teams in Cologne need remote or on-site support
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Frequently asked questions

Curious about JUnit? Here are the answers that come up again and again.

JUnit is used to test Java code in a repeatable way. Companies rely on it to verify business rules, guard against regressions, and document how code should behave. It is a core tool for unit tests, but it also appears in broader integration test setups.

JUnit 5 is the usual choice for new work because it is the current model and gives teams the Jupiter API, better extension support, and cleaner test organization. JUnit 4 still matters in older codebases, especially when migration is gradual. A good specialist can keep both running while moving tests forward safely.

JUnit and TestNG both support Java testing, but JUnit is the more common default in many modern Java stacks. TestNG can fit teams that want a different annotation model or test grouping style. The right choice depends on your existing codebase, build setup, and team habits.

A strong JUnit specialist usually also knows Mockito, AssertJ, Hamcrest, Maven or Gradle, and the Java language itself. For Spring-based systems, experience with Spring Boot test slices and context loading is valuable. CI familiarity also matters because tests live inside the delivery pipeline.

JUnit work does not always need a large senior team, but it does need someone who understands test design and Java internals well enough to avoid fragile suites. Simple additions can be handled quickly, while migration or refactoring work needs deeper experience. The harder the production risk, the more important that depth becomes.

Yes. Many JUnit specialists can work remotely as long as they can access the codebase, build tools, and test environments. On-site collaboration in Cologne can help during workshops, migration planning, or when product and backend teams need tight short-term coordination.

Look for tests that are clear, isolated, and stable, not just numerous. A good JUnit professional explains trade-offs, removes duplication, and protects behavior that matters instead of chasing coverage for its own sake. Review how they handle edge cases, naming, setup, and flaky tests.

Common JUnit deliverables include new test suites, migration support from older test code, flaky test fixes, and test reviews for existing Java modules. Many engagements also include build pipeline improvements and advice on where to use mocks versus real components. The best outcomes are practical and easy for the team to maintain.

The average hourly rate of freelancers in Cologne, Germany who have used JUnit in their recent projects is 90 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 723 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers in Cologne, Germany who have used JUnit in their recent projects, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 69% hold at least a Master's degree, and 15% hold a doctorate.

On average, freelancers in Cologne, Germany who have used JUnit in their recent projects have 20 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 1.7 years.

The most common languages among freelancers in Cologne, Germany who have used JUnit in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and French (24%).

The most common industries among freelancers in Cologne, Germany who have used JUnit in their recent projects are Information Technology (88%), Retail (59%), and Banking and Finance (53%).

The most common business areas among freelancers in Cologne, Germany who have used JUnit in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (88%), and Quality Assurance (76%).

Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used JUnit

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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