Xray Experts in Austria
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Austria, who have recently used Xray
Marko A.
Last position:
Program Lead | Agile Transformation Coach at EnBW
Technologies: Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence, Office 365 (Teams, PowerPoint, Copilot, Excel, SharePoint, Forms, OneNote, PowerAutomate, Word), DataDog, Conceptboard, Python, AWS, Claude, Perplexity Methodology: Scrum
- Steering and supporting the organization in introducing Scrum and a SAFe-inspired quarterly roadmap and portfolio planning at program level.
- Servant leadership for Scrum teams and managers to achieve quarterly goals and measurably increase value creation for internal and external customers.
- Designing and building efficient communication and collaboration structures between multiple development teams and central stakeholders in the organization.
- Moderating and facilitating cross-functional workshops and management meetings to align on shared goals.
- Coaching leaders, Product Owners, and development teams on agile values, role understanding, and scaled ways of working (Scrum, SAFe, Business Agility).
- Removing structural obstacles at team and organizational level through targeted impediment management and escalation processes.
- Enabling teams to become more self-organized, accountable, and end-to-end responsible along the value streams.
- Individual coaching of key people (Product Owners, Chapter Leads, Scrum Masters) to strengthen their impact in the transformation program.
- Organization-wide identification, planning, and implementation of process, structure, and tool improvements to sustainably increase efficiency, throughput, and value creation.
- Close support for Product Owners in stakeholder management, business value prioritization, product strategy, roadmap planning, and effective collaboration with development teams.
- Introducing, governing, and scaling Azure DevOps as the central project and product management tool, including coaching the organization on usage, reporting, and alignment at all levels.
Achievements:
- Clear increase in visibility, transparency, and perceived value creation of the development teams within the overall organization.
- Noticeable improvement in communication between development, business, and other stakeholders.
- Optimization of work processes, workflow, and backlog structures, which reduced lead times, sharpened priorities, and sustainably increased team effectiveness.
Christian P.
Last position:
Migration Lead for Accounting & Year-End Closing Tests at Raiffeisenverband Salzburg
- Project and test management for the accounting migration
- Coordination of resources
- Planning, creation and alignment of scenarios with functional experts and IT product owners
- Responsibility for accounting KPIs of the migration cockpit
- System environment: Jira, XRay, Confluence
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)
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
Cédric M.
Last position:
Senior Tester at Public Sector
- Analysis, design and implementation of acceptance tests
- Test execution and reporting
- Defect reporting and retesting
- Tools: Xray, Jira, Confluence, OpenText Content Server, Scrum
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Statistics of experts using Xray
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
18 years
Position duration
2.2 years
Positions per freelancer
11
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Quality Assurance
Top industries
Banking and Finance, Information Technology, Transportation
Certification focus areas
Quality Assurance, Information Technology, Project Management
Bachelor's degree or higher
100%
Master's degree or higher
80%
Doctorate
20%
Certifications per freelancer
5
Most common languages
German, English, Croatian
Speak two or more languages
100%
Based on our profile pool as of 14 Oct 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of experts in this technology in Austria are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows the share of experts charging within that range.
Average rates of experts in Austria using Xray
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 14 Oct 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
Xray experts industry focus
See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.
- Banking and Finance (83%)
- Information Technology (83%)
- Transportation (67%)
- Government and Administration (67%)
- Telecommunication (50%)
- Education (33%)
- Energy (33%)
- Insurance (33%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
Xray for Jira
Xray is a test management app for Jira that brings manual and automated testing into the same work environment as requirements, defects, and releases. Teams use Xray, also called Xray Test Management or Xray for Jira, to plan test work, record evidence, and trace quality decisions through delivery.
Core test model
Xray adds structured Jira issue types and relationships for tests, preconditions, test sets, test executions, and test plans. A sound setup connects business requirements to test cases and results, while keeping reusable tests separate from execution-specific evidence. This supports clear coverage without turning Jira into an unstructured checklist.
Delivery workflows
Xray fits teams that release web products, APIs, mobile applications, enterprise software, and regulated systems. Common work includes:
- Designing test plans, test sets, and execution workflows
- Linking requirements, defects, risks, and test evidence
- Importing or synchronizing automated test results
- Building release views and coverage reports
- Establishing reusable manual test steps and preconditions
Ecosystem and tooling
Strong Xray work combines Jira configuration with practical testing knowledge. Specialists may connect Xray to CI pipelines, Cucumber, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, REST APIs, and automated frameworks such as Selenium, Cypress, or Playwright. They also understand Jira permissions, workflows, custom fields, dashboards, and data migration concerns.
When expertise matters
Companies often bring in freelance expertise when an existing Jira project has inconsistent test records, weak traceability, or reporting that cannot support a release decision. Support is also useful during a move from spreadsheets or another test tool, a major Jira redesign, an automation rollout, or a merger of teams. In Austria, remote collaboration is common, while workshops and governance sessions may still benefit from on-site availability and clear German or English communication.
What strong experts deliver
Effective Xray professionals start with the team’s delivery model rather than copying a default configuration. They define useful test states, naming rules, permissions, and reporting before importing large volumes of data. They can explain the difference between test design and test execution, keep automated results trustworthy, and leave behind documentation that teams can maintain after the engagement.
Frequently asked questions
The facts hiring teams ask for most often when it comes to Xray.
Xray is used to manage manual and automated tests inside Jira. It connects requirements, test cases, executions, defects, and release evidence so teams can assess coverage and make informed quality decisions.
Xray for Jira keeps testing close to Jira issues, workflows, permissions, and release planning, which can reduce context switching for Jira-based teams. A separate test management tool may offer a different user experience or deeper specialization, so the choice depends on existing processes, reporting needs, integrations, and governance.
A strong Xray Test Management expert usually understands Jira administration, test design, requirements traceability, defect workflows, and release governance. Experience with REST APIs, CI pipelines, Cucumber, and automated testing frameworks is valuable when results must flow into Xray.
The right level depends on the scope. A simple project configuration may need focused knowledge of Jira and Xray, while a migration, multi-team rollout, or automation integration calls for an expert who has designed information models, permissions, reporting, and adoption processes.
Xray is well suited to remote collaboration because configuration, test design, and reporting can be reviewed in shared Jira projects. Austrian companies should agree on workshop times, access controls, documentation standards, and whether German or English is required for stakeholder communication.
Xray for Jira can receive automated test results through supported formats, integrations, APIs, and CI workflows. The important point is not only importing results but also mapping them correctly to tests, executions, environments, requirements, and defects.
Ask the Xray expert to explain the proposed test model, traceability rules, reporting logic, and migration approach in concrete terms. Good work produces useful release evidence, avoids unnecessary custom fields, handles permissions carefully, and remains understandable to the team that will maintain it.
Xray Test Management may be a poor fit when a team does not use Jira, needs a highly specialized standalone testing environment, or wants to avoid managing test information as Jira data. A qualified expert should compare the workflow, integration, reporting, and maintenance trade-offs before recommending it.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Austria who have used Xray in their recent projects is 108 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 867 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Austria who have used Xray in their recent projects, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 80% hold at least a Master's degree, and 20% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Austria who have used Xray in their recent projects have 18 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.2 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Austria who have used Xray in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and Croatian (67%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Austria who have used Xray in their recent projects are Banking and Finance (83%), Information Technology (83%), and Transportation (67%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Austria who have used Xray in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (83%), and Quality Assurance (83%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Xray
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
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