Zephyr for Jira Experts in Germany

• Introduced a unified test strategy to establish quality gates and define test activities for the 'ICaruS' subproject of the Bundeswehr

• Built and implemented manual and automated tests, set up the test infrastructure, and introduced test management tools

• Established KPIs and dashboards to present and distribute test metrics to project team members and stakeholders

• Technologies used: Playwright, TypeScript, REST, PEGA Systems, Jira, HP ALM, GitLab Runner, Kubernetes, Git, VS Code, Angular, Scrum

• Industries: Energy, Telecommunications, Manufacturing
• Transformation & Change: Supported complex IT and digital transformation programs as Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Change Manager and RTE Consultant at Siemens Energy (global SAFe rollout), E.ON (sales technology platform), Schneider Electric (S/4HANA transformation DACH) and Vodafone (Operational Excellence)
• Agile Roles: Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Product Owner, Business Analyst, RTE Consultant in cross-functional and scaled teams (SAFe, Scrum, Spotify Model)
• Procurement Excellence: Strategic purchasing consulting with a focus on cost optimization, supplier management, digitalization and organizational development, including building supplier scorecard models, AI-supported procurement approaches and process automation in purchasing
• Managed functional leadership of interdisciplinary project teams of up to 12 people in national and international settings
• Successful launch of several global ARTs at Siemens Energy with improved coordination across sites
• Increased change acceptance and established communication structures in the S/4HANA program at Schneider Electric
• Introduced agile methods, OKR frameworks and KPI dashboards at E.ON, increasing velocity and transparency
• Reduced purchasing costs through strategic sourcing and supplier optimization
• Implemented process innovations in close cooperation with IT and business teams

• 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.

• Independently managed the POS tender for in-store catering.
• Structured requirements gathering (functional and technical).
• Created a management-ready specification to guide decisions for leadership and IT.
• Market overview of relevant POS providers.
• Close coordination with Galeria's IT and business departments.

• Built a modular C++ 20 embedded Linux acquisition system on a Raspberry Pi, synchronizing IMU and dual-camera data streams to sub-millisecond accuracy.
• Integrated retro-reflective and contrast sensors to trigger acquisition and detect gaps between sorter rails.
• Implemented SPI & I2C sensor communication, GPIO interrupt handling with libgpiod, and CSV & JSON output.
• Designed a multi-threaded acquisition pipeline and an SPSC queue between acquisition and writer threads.
• Built a Python/HTML/CSS based web-server and validated the prototype in a DHL warehouse for defect detection.
• Documented software behavior, configuration, and results for maintainable handover and further development.

• Analysis of the regulatory requirements from the DORA regulation

• Structured derivation of the necessary measures for development & operations

• Setup of an organization-wide Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC)

• Creation of policies, documentation, and governance processes

• Alignment with business, IT, compliance, and governance stakeholders

• Support in tool selection (including static code analysis, vulnerability management)

• Setup of a standardized, traceable process for secure software development in line with DORA requirements. The focus was on requirements analysis, policy creation, stakeholder alignment, and structured process design for two independent financial institutions.

• Methods & tools: regulations (DORA), requirements management, process design, Confluence, Jira, SharePoint, MS Office

• Analyzing, aligning and modeling business processes (BPMN 2.0) for the 'The New Retail' program in the areas of invoicing, tax, customs and accounting
• Tracking user stories and their impact on processes
• Point of contact for preparing the tool migration from Symbio to Signavio for the mentioned areas
• Power user after the introduction of Signavio, point of contact and coach for other process modelers

• Design, planning, and test case analysis
• Integration testing
• Coordination of UAT in the lab and on site
• Creation of HW and SW test catalogs
• Communication of test results from REST services with the SAP team
• Support for branches in the EU until rollout
• Coordination of defect management and SW updates with the involved vendors
• Checking the configuration of the charging stations in the backend software for different countries
• Continuous reporting of the quality status to project management
• Documentation of the user manual in English and German
• Tools: Confluence, be.Energised, OCPP Postman, OPI, CCV (payone.elavon), Excel, it4you

• Set up GUI test framework for testers and developers to easily create GUI tests
• Implemented automated GUI tests with QF-Test for stock trading software and PDF file comparisons
• Created comparison runs between different versions

Used technologies: QF-Test, Java, Jython

• Consulting and development of customized test strategies, quality concepts, and quality governance frameworks
• Advising on the use of artificial intelligence with a focus on AI-driven test strategies (test design, tools, automation)
• Testing AI systems and AI-powered solutions (e.g., guardrails, nondeterministic behavior, ethical and adversarial scenarios)
• Consulting and development of AI governance and compliance guidelines
• Analysis, design, and optimization of test processes
• Planning and conducting quality audits
• Preparation and facilitation of quality workshops
• Test management for digital ecosystems
• Quality management: business and process analysis
• Change, transition, and project management
• Identification and provision of suitable specialist resources
• Training seminars and courses for quality and test managers, product owners, and project managers on effective QA strategies and methods
• Professional mentoring and consulting for leaders in quality-focused management roles
• Teaching test fundamentals, design, and methods to IT professionals or career changers

• Introduction of giro card with Visa Debit card payment function (Combocard) for Commerzbank
• Support for the Card Processing Team (card processing; Clearing & Settlement incl. Dispute Management teams) in project work
• Creation of requirements for the Clearing & Settlement team, Authorization team (AZ) and Card Production team (KP) as part of a requirements catalog
• Requirements engineering (requirements management) with business contact person
• Participation in workstream meetings between VISA Inc., SRC Security Research & Consulting GmbH, Commerzbank AG and consulting firms (PwC and Senacor Technologies AG)
• Sprint planning with Jira tickets of type Task and use of Confluence
• Creation and presentation of weekly status reports for the Clearing & Settlement, Dispute Management and Reporting & GUI workstreams
• Coordination with network and file transfer teams for connection tests of new interfaces, e.g. setup of host keys, use of VPN or sipnet connections
• Coordination of the delivery of test files, e.g. exchange rates (FX rates; TC 56 of VISA rates), VISA Debit and Credit transactions (format Base II) and EANSS/ISS Base II clearing files to the Debit Clearing System (DCS)
• Conducting coordination meetings on the use of Visanet Settlement Service (VSS) and PSD2 reports and payment traffic statistics (ZVS)
• Organizing workshops with FiServ (First Data) on Dispute Management and complaint handling
• Setup and maintenance of Open Point List (OPL) in Confluence
• Technologies/methods: Jira, Confluence, giro card, VISA Debit card, payments, Kanban board, BIN, routing, CIQ, VPAY, ScalaTest, Dispute Management

• 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

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

• Requirements analysis and objective setting
• Developing test strategy and approach
• Standardizing test processes
• Selecting test tools and technologies
• Test planning and control
• Quality assurance and test metrics
• Risk and defect management
• Tools: Atlassian Jira, Confluence, MS Office