Xray Experts in Hamburg
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Hamburg, who have recently used Xray
Christian F.
Last position:
Department Head (Interim) at Municipal utilities and transport company
- Defined and established the areas of responsibility
- Built a governance model for the department and its areas of responsibility
- IT strategy, project management, process management, and quality and sustainability management
- Developed a communications strategy for the group
- Created the IT strategy
- Designed templates, guidelines, and processes for consistent ways of working
- Recorded strategic guidelines and grouped ongoing projects – derived a roadmap for strategic planning
- Reviewed ongoing projects
- Prepared staffing calculations and capacity planning
- Defined job profiles
Aiman R.
Last position:
Test Manager and Test Automation Engineer at Warehouse Management Company
- Introduced test management with SolMan
- Implemented test automation with TOSCA
- Analyzed, created, and automated test cases
- Built regression test portfolio
- Stakeholder meetings and alignments
- Financial management
Anastasiia K.
Last position:
Senior Test Automation Engineer at E.ON
- Reviewing functional and technical requirements from a testing perspective
- Creating test cases and automated tests to validate requirements
- Performing manual and automated functional, end-to-end, and regression tests
- Documenting test results and tracking defects
- Using models like GPT-4, BERT, and Hugging Face Transformers for automated test case generation, analysis of test results, and improving test coverage, including bias checks and security reviews
- Techs: MS Office, Jira, Zephyr, Confluence, Tosca, stakeholder communication, Agile, Kanban, Scrum, OpenAI API, Hugging Face, PyTorch, LangChain.
Holger G.
Last position:
Test Automation Engineer, Quality Assurance Consultant at T-Systems
- Poliks – State Police System for information, communication, and case management and other state variants (ViVa, Bravo, customs)
- Developed a test framework for test automation to replace an existing proprietary test client for new developments, focusing on easy maintenance and simple extensibility for new technologies
- Designed the architecture
- Implemented the architecture
- Created a proof of concept by migrating existing test cases into the new test framework
- Platform: C#, .NET, Jira, XRay, Confluence, Playwright, Selenium, UI Automation, Appium, HTML, Git, VMWare, Windows 11, Linux
Walid H.
Last position:
Senior Tester within the IT & Digital Roadmap at VTG-Aktiengesellschaft
- Consulting, planning, and adapting (extension and rebuild) of the existing test framework to cover necessary test cases as part of quality assurance for initiative implementations
- Executing cross-team manual test cases during regular sprint cycles
- Setting up test automation
- Advising front-end and back-end development on quality assurance aspects
- Building a framework for end-to-end test cases
- Performing software quality assurance across various projects within a program
- Supporting the creation of test cases
- Coordinating within the team with all relevant stakeholders
Mohamed E.
Last position:
Test Manager & Defect Manager at BMBF
- Planning and coordinating test activities and supporting the specialist team
- Reviewing requirements, user stories, and test cases
- Preparing test environments and test data
- Creating test sets and executing tests in XRay
- Performing defect analysis, deviation management, and reporting results
- Coordinating with other functional and technical project teams
Bilal O.
Last position:
Test Analyst / Test Engineer at von der Qualidence Consultancy GmbH
- Manual acceptance testing of web and Swing clients as well as mobile applications across different teams/products
- Requirements management, test analysis, and submission of review results
- Preparation and execution of smoke, regression, and user acceptance tests
- Test case design using test design techniques for user stories with acceptance criteria in XRay; import of Excel test sheets into Jira XRay
- Creation, preparation, and execution of API tests with Postman and documentation in Jira XRay
- Taking on greenfield projects for the acceptance of the web app
- Proactive collaboration with the team (developers, POs, and test manager)
- Acceptance of development and deployment of content elements on the web with TYPO3 CMS
- Tools used: Jira + XRay, Postman, Confluence, web & Swing applications, mobile app, BrowserStack, Figma, Robot Framework, Excel
Christian R.
Last position:
Freelance Test Manager / Requirements Manager at Self-employed
- Consulting in test management, test design, test automation, test process optimization for national and international clients
Stefan F.
Last position:
Application Manager Atlassian at PI GmbH
- Administration of Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence, ITSM and Bitbucket)
- Sole point of contact for all Atlassian topics across the company
- Stakeholder management and requirements management
- Planning and execution of the migration to the cloud (all applications)
- Server to cloud migration
- Consulting and optimization of various business processes (procurement, HR, IT)
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Statistics of experts using Xray
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
18 years (Germany: 21 years)
Position duration
1.7 years
Positions per freelancer
16
Top business areas
Information Technology, Quality Assurance, Project Management
Top industries
Information Technology, Automotive, Professional Services
Certification focus areas
Quality Assurance, Project Management, Product Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
63% (Germany: 87%)
Master's degree or higher
25% (Germany: 39%)
Doctorate
13% (Germany: 7%)
Certifications per freelancer
5 (Germany: 4)
Most common languages
German, English, Arabic
Speak two or more languages
100% (Germany: 95%)
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 Hamburg 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 Hamburg 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 19 Sep 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.
- Information Technology (100%)
- Automotive (78%)
- Professional Services (78%)
- Banking and Finance (56%)
- Insurance (56%)
- Retail (56%)
- Energy (44%)
- Government and Administration (44%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
What Xray does
Xray is a test management solution built into Jira. It helps teams plan tests, record evidence, manage defects and trace requirements through releases. Xray supports manual and automated testing across software products, regulated systems and complex delivery programs.
Jira-based test management
Xray uses Jira issues and workflows to connect requirements, test cases, executions and defects. Teams can organize coverage by projects, releases, folders, plans and environments while keeping test activity inside familiar Jira processes. Reports show progress, coverage and unresolved quality risks.
Ecosystem and tooling
Xray works with Jira Cloud and Jira Data Center and connects with common delivery and automation tools. Strong specialists understand REST APIs, Jira workflows, permissions, dashboards and test-result imports, as well as tools such as:
- Cucumber and Gherkin for behavior-driven testing
- Playwright, Selenium or Cypress for browser automation
- Jenkins, GitLab CI or GitHub Actions for pipeline execution
- REST integrations and formats such as JUnit, NUnit and TestNG
When companies need expertise
Companies often bring in freelance Xray specialists during a Jira rollout, migration, audit or major change to their quality process. They can also help when test data is inconsistent, automation results do not reach Jira correctly or teams lack a clear view of release readiness. In Hamburg, this support can fit local product, logistics, manufacturing and software teams through on-site workshops or remote collaboration.
Typical project deliverables
- A test model aligned with requirements, risks and release stages
- Reusable test sets, plans, executions and traceability views
- Jira workflows, screens, permissions and reporting dashboards
- Stable imports from automated suites and CI/CD pipelines
- Migration plans for legacy test cases and historical evidence
What strong specialists bring
Strong Xray professionals design a usable information model before configuring fields and screens. They distinguish test design from execution data, keep automation results readable and make reports useful for product, delivery and compliance decisions. They also document governance, coach teams and validate integrations with realistic project data. Experience with Jira administration, API work, exploratory testing and quality assurance helps them solve issues beyond basic configuration.
Frequently asked questions
Questions about Xray? Start with the answers below.
Xray is used to manage test cases, test plans, test executions, defects and requirement traceability within Jira. It gives teams a shared view of coverage and release quality while supporting both manual and automated testing.
Xray keeps testing close to Jira issues, workflows and permissions, which can reduce context switching for Jira-centered teams. Dedicated tools may offer different reporting or collaboration models, so the right choice depends on existing systems, scale and integration needs.
A strong Xray specialist usually understands Jira configuration, REST APIs, test automation and CI/CD pipelines. Knowledge of Cucumber, Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, JUnit or similar result formats is useful when automated evidence must flow into Jira.
The required experience depends on the scope of the work. A simple workflow adjustment may need focused Jira and Xray knowledge, while a migration or enterprise rollout calls for someone who has designed test models, permissions, reporting and integrations in comparable environments.
Xray can receive results from automated suites through supported formats, APIs and CI/CD integrations. A specialist should verify mapping, execution context, environments and failure handling so imported results remain meaningful instead of creating duplicate or unclear test records.
Xray is well suited to remote work because configuration, test design and reporting happen in Jira-based systems. Hamburg companies can combine remote delivery with on-site discovery sessions when stakeholders need workshops, process alignment or German-language communication.
Review whether requirements, tests, executions and defects remain traceable without unnecessary duplication. A quality Xray implementation has clear naming, practical workflows, useful reports, controlled permissions and reliable automated-result imports.
Xray Cloud runs with Jira Cloud, while Xray Data Center is used with self-managed Jira Data Center environments. The choice affects administration, integrations, migration planning and available platform capabilities, so a specialist should assess the Jira hosting model first.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Hamburg, Germany who have used Xray in their recent projects is 94 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 748 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Hamburg, Germany who have used Xray in their recent projects, 63% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 25% hold at least a Master's degree, and 13% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Hamburg, Germany who have used Xray in their recent projects have 18 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 1.7 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Hamburg, Germany who have used Xray in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and Arabic (44%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Hamburg, Germany who have used Xray in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Automotive (78%), and Professional Services (78%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Hamburg, Germany who have used Xray in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Quality Assurance (89%), and Project Management (67%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Xray
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