Carsten B.
Test engineer / Test engineer
Experience
Test engineer / Test engineer
DAT
The DAT (Deutsche Automobil Treuhand GmbH) provides services and data for the automotive industry, with a focus on vehicle valuation (e.g., residual value calculations), damage estimation (software like SilverDAT), and technical vehicle data. Insurers use DAT for claims settlement, while repair shops rely on it for repair cost calculation. Additionally, DAT supports vehicle trade through residual value forecasts, market analysis, and digital tools for vehicle management. As a partner of the automotive sector, it promotes digitalization and optimizes processes in workshops, car dealerships, and manufacturers. Gold.dat.de is a platform for managing claims. My responsibilities included quality assurance through manual testing and the automation of key processes using the AI tool ASKUI.
Manual tests: Claim setup: validation of login, input masks, document uploads, and claim number generation. Forwarding: checking data transmission to insurance companies, status changes, and notifications. Repair cost calculation: reviewing the logic for repair and replacement costs and the correct generation of reports. Parts selection: validating the spare parts assignment by vehicle manufacturer and direct ordering functions. Logging: ensuring complete and correct documentation of all processes.
Automation with ASKUI: Test Automation: Automating tests for login, claim creation, calculations, and parts selection. ASKUI for User Interaction Simulation: Using ASKUI to simulate user interactions (e.g., drag-and-drop). CI/CD Integration: Incorporating tests into CI/CD pipelines for early error detection.
Executed over 50 test scenarios and identified critical defects.
Reduced test time by 50% through automation.
Improved platform quality and user-friendliness.
Team: 7 tester and engineers
Test objects: WEB application
Test levels: Development tests, system tests, system integration tests, preproduction tests
Test disciplines: Functional tests, smoke tests, interface test, regression tests
Systems / tools: ASKUI, Jira, Xray, MS Office (Excel)
Programming languages: Typescript
Used languages: German, English
Test engineer / Test engineer
BKA
Test automation of the web presence for internal queries regarding Europe-wide searches in the police environment. Creation of a framework for automating regression tests on the GUI. Modular structure of libraries with functional building blocks for reuse in different scenarios and data transfer via Excel files from the ALM module, resources. The artifacts stored there are linked with the UFT test cases. The data in Excel is line by line, each representing a test case. This allows different variations of tests to be created via a script. The respective entry in Excel then controls the process, thus constituting a Data-Driven Testing (DDT) approach. Night runs from ALM on multiple environments and evaluation the following day. Documentation with screenshots controlled from UFT and embedded for review in the Result Viewer. High performance through continuous optimization of scripts. Close collaboration with all parties involved (developers) and management in an Agile environment.
Establishment of QA services with automated tests for the BKA WEB ServiceDesk.
Team: 10 tester and engineers
Test objects: WEB application
Test levels: Development tests, system tests, system integration tests, preproduction tests
Test disciplines: Functional tests, smoke tests, interface test, regression tests
Systems / tools: UFT ONE, ALM, Jira, Confluence, MS Office (Excel)
Programming languages: VBS, HTML, CSS
Used languages: German, English
Test engineer / Test engineer
Schwäbisch Hall
Execution and evaluation of manual to automated test cases. Creation and embedding into UFT as scripted modules within a framework, including the execution of regression tests using various software testing tools (Micro Focus, UFT (14.53, 15), and ALM, Excel).
Automation of regression tests, including integration into the system landscape. Continuous professional development. Handover to the project team and documentation regarding project status. Use of descriptive programming in UFT together with VBS, ALM, Excel, and scripting for dynamic object recognition of the SAP FIN application in subsystems (Java) as end-to-end.
Further development of product quality.
Test team: 8 testers and engineers
Test objects: SAP FIN for real estate lending
Test levels: integration tests, system tests, preproduction tests
Test disciplines: Functional tests, interface test, regression tests
Systems / tools: UFT ONE, ALM, MS Office (Excel)
Programming languages: VBS/VBA
Documentation languages: German, English
Test engineer / Test engineer
DB Systel
As an external employee in the test automation area for bahn.de, tasks included test execution with Microfocus Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and test evaluation, as well as the further development, maintenance, and adaptation of test cases and the underlying framework functions.
Further developed the test execution documentation in ALM and improved or completely resolved various programming problems in test automation.
Analysis and further development of the existing framework. Adaptation of artifacts as VB scripts to changes within the test environment, including documentation and evaluation.
Execution of tests using Microfocus UFT and Application Lifecycle Management (TestPlan | TestLab) of ALM. Continuous optimization and adjustment of test cases from the suite of test cases.
Automated generation of test reports and documentation, including screenshots taken during the runtime of the AUT (Application Under Test). The GUI objects of the HTML application bahn.de are directly accessed through specific functions (Set, Click, etc.), without utilizing a repository.
The test workflows mimic the behavior of customers using bahn.de, for example:
Connection Search: Simulating the process of searching for train connections.
Ticket Booking: Automating the ticket purchase process.
Payment Module Usage: Interacting with payment modules like PayPal.
Successful implementation of test cases for automation using UFT and nightly execution followed by analysis in a complex environment.
Test team: 7 testers and engineers
Test objects: Online Ticket
Test levels: integration tests, system tests, Preproduction tests
Test disciplines: Functional tests, interface test, regression tests
Systems / tools: AWS, ALM, UFT,Excel, GIT / GITLab, MS Office, Confluence
Programming languages: VBS/A, HTML, XML
Documentation languages: German, English
Management Consultant
Ergo IT
Planning and creation of test automation within the scope of CRM in web and client environments. Development of the proof of concept (POC) for an internal solution regarding keyword-driven test case creation. Planning and management of test executions. Close collaboration with all relevant project teams, application managers, and departments within the framework of test strategies, concepts, and plans. Definition of test environment requirements in coordination with relevant stakeholders. Review of business concepts for their suitability as a test basis.
Successful implementation of the keyword-driven test approach. Sustainable improvement of product quality through optimization of development processes based on insights from detailed test results and subsequent analyses.
Test team: 6 testers and engineers
Test objects: Application Desktop Client
Test levels: System tests, system integration tests
Test disciplines: Static analysis, Functional tests, interface tests
Systems / tools: MS Excel, ALM, UFT one
Programming languages: JScript, VBA/S
Documentation languages: German, English
Test Automation Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
VBL
- Set up and introduced test automation using Hewlett Packard Enterprise Unified Functional Tester 12.5 (HP UFT) for the project "Selection and introduction of a solution for test automation of SAP CRM 7.0".
- Built a framework for modular test case creation in HP UFT using libraries in VBS for reusable functions.
- Developed cross-system test scripts for a NetWeaver Business Client (NWBC) SAP CRM as well as SAP ERP system.
- Modular design of test scenarios and parameter passing of variants from Excel tables.
- Documented the HP UFT-based framework and its extension to "Test Driven Development" as well as the libraries with the functions.
- Extended the framework for configurable adaptation to different runtime environments and software versions.
- Coaching and handover of the framework to the test team.
- Introduction of a test report based on HP Reports.
- Ensuring software and system quality according to requirement specifications.
- Designing and advancing auto-mated software tests.
- Performing tests such as integration testing, system testing, and end2end tests.
- Documenting, reporting, and analyzing test results.
- Scripting in VBS by UFT of test cases for regression testing in System Integration Testing and System Testing.
- The result was a framework where data from Excel tables was input across the entire application and subsequently verified throughout the workflow.
- Test team: 7 testers and engineers
- Test objects: SAP CRM
- Test levels: System tests, system integration tests
- Test disciplines: Functional tests, interface tests, regressions Tests
- Systems / tools: ALM, SAP Solution manager, MS Excel, UFT
- Programming languages: VBS
- Documentation languages: German
Test engineer / Test engineer
KfW Frankfurt
- Data migration of data warehouse systems.
- SQL queries generated in HP-UFT using ADODB and VBS for Oracle and IBM DB.
- Using UFT to import macros into Excel for comparing data and data states.
- Defining steps in ALM to fully describe the test.
- Review of reports, documents, test cases, etc.
- Developing test scripts and creating an automation framework for modular tests in HP UFT using Excel and HP ALM and uploading the analysis from Excel to ALM after testing.
- Test case derivation and documentation.
- The professional project controlling with its reporting framework and standardized measurement system ensures the continuous assessment of all projects within the program. The establishment of a professional test organization with a testing team of about 10 Test engineers and associated testers ensures effective and transparent quality assurance – from component to system landscape level. The test automation rate (based on all test cases of the test levels component to system integration test) is more than 80%.
- Team lead: 6 testers and engineers
- Test objects: several databases
- Systems / tools: PUTTY, IBM DB2, Oracle DB, DB-Visualizer, Informatica, HP UFT, ALM
- Test levels: system tests, system integration tests
- Test disciplines: functional tests, regression tests
- Programming languages: VBS, SQL
Manual tester / Manual tester
EOS
- Creation of modular test workflows using Enterprise Tester as Application Lifecycle Management.
- Generating test data and querying data states on Oracle DB using SQL.
- Defining steps to fully describe the test.
- Weekly SCRUM status meeting and reporting.
- Effective and transparent quality assurance processes to ultimately meet the agreed user requirements.
- Test object: CRM, database
- Test levels: system tests, system integration tests
- Test disciplines: functional tests, interface tests
- Systems / tools: PUTTY, Oracle DB, TOAD, Enterprisetester
- Programming languages: SQL
- Documentation languages: German, English
Consultant
NTT DATA Deutschland GmbH
- Engaged as a Consultant for a customer-side fixed-price project at Deutsche Bank in Eschborn to introduce test automation for an existing order processing platform.
- Development of test scripts for an Eclipse RCP based end-user frontend using HP UFT.
- Further development and consolidation of an existing LIFT-framework for the modular construction of test scenarios.
- Introduction of a test report based on HP UFT Report-Viewer.
- Extension of the framework for “Test Driven Development” based on test data in Excel Sheets.
- Extension of the framework for configurable adaptation to different runtime environments and software versions of the test object.
- Documentation of the HP UFT based test framework regarding modularization concepts and a tutorial for the use of the framework by the test team.
- Implementation of test scenarios based on the framework from numerous given user stories.
- Participation in weekly status reporting.
- Handover of the framework to the test team.
- The Data Management System is a client/server application with a dialog-driven Java architecture.
- Test team: 10 testers and engineers
- Test objects: Custom Document management tool
- Test levels: system integration tests, User acceptance
- Test disciplines: Functional tests, Interface tests, Regression tests
- Systems / tools: PUTTY, Java, TortoiseSVN, Excel, HP UFT, HP ALM
- Documentation languages: German, English
Test engineer / Test engineer
Sogeti Deutschland GmbH
- Project assignment in the public sector at the Agentur für Arbeit.
- Automation of the initial state setup for regression test preparation.
- Test automation using Silk Central Test Manager.
- Supporting functional testers in the application of the company's own keyword notation.
- Evaluation of the results of automated test runs.
- Revision of faulty test runs.
- Deployment of a CRM system as a client/server application based on a Java architecture.
Test engineer / Test engineer
Siemens Enterprise Network AG
- As a member of the system test group, responsible for test automation.
- Responsible for the quality assurance of the well-known, high-end SIP telephones “OpenStage” and for the preparation and execution of automated tests.
- Successfully worked on the development of a test framework based heavily on the usage of Quick Test Professional.
- Development of modular test automation using a Husim simulation on a PC with QTP (VBS) for various models of the SIP IP Phone 15 / 20 / 40 / 80 from Siemens Network on a server-based architecture.
- Object-oriented designed classes for the SIP/IP phone models and documentation of the framework in QTP, including reports from UFT to ALM.
- Was very efficient in assessing product quality and made excellent use of in-depth knowledge of highly complex Quality Center features to analyze occurring problems and adapt automated tests and the Quality Center environment.
Test Engineer
- Various projects as a test engineer for key accounts in Europe, the UK, and the USA, including Vodafone, British Telecom, Deutsche Bank, and Deutsche Telekom.
- Programmed in Cobol and PL1 for the years 2000 changeover. This was achieved using a framework technique in which the existing two-digits year display was converted into a four-digit one.
Summary
Technically proficient Test engineer with extensive expertise in implementing functional GUI test automation and framework creation for test automation using MicroFocus UFT within Application Lifecycle Management (MicroFocus ALM). An innovative and analytical process optimizer and potential enhancer, skilled in using the VBS programming language and utilizing libraries to manage test objects. Possesses comprehensive knowledge of test automation tools, including Excel, development tools, and test automation frameworks from Micro Focus/OpenText. Expert in creating and programming descriptive function libraries with test scripts for reuse in hierarchical sequences of different test stages.
Languages
Education
IHK
Diploma IT clerk · IT clerk · Munich, Germany
Certifications & licenses
CAT Certified Agile Tester
Certified Product Specialist Test Automation
ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level
OpenText / Mercury / HP(MicroFocus/OpenText) Application Lifecycle Management Essentials
Test Suite Certified Product Instructor
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