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Dennis Kehl

Test Coordinator

Dennis Kehl
Wülfrath, Germany

Experience

Apr 2025 - Jan 2026
10 months
Stuttgart, Germany

Test Coordinator

Banks & Financial Services

  • Preparing the TestPool and TestLab of the two former clients as a test case consolidation template for the business unit
  • Coaching and supporting the business unit in creating new acceptance-relevant test cases (progression and regression test cases)
  • Setting up the new test sets in the QC TestLab or test cases in the TestPool
  • User management and support for test access and permissions in the time travel environment
  • Coordination with contacts at the financial services provider on test prerequisites, test progress, and external defect status
  • Transferring test documentation from the business units into QC
  • Consolidating the status between recorded defects and test documentation
  • Adjusting test case scenarios in QC; ensuring efficient and consistent preparation for future acceptance cycles
  • Designing and implementing Jira workflows for acceptance procedures and defects in upcoming OSPlus releases
Jun 2024 - Oct 2025
1 year 5 months
Stuttgart, Germany

Test Manager & Test Coordinator

Banks & Financial Services

  • Creating the cross-project test concept, including the test strategy for use in the overall project
  • Supporting the setup of the required test environment, including coordination with test managers from the building society and the financial services provider
  • Setting up a status reporting system
  • Setting up a defect management workflow and creating a corresponding Jira project
  • Supporting business units in creating test cases and training them on effective prioritization
  • Managing defect management during test merges
  • Advising business units on test case documentation
  • Monitoring test progress and controlling test activities
  • Coordinating with the financial services provider’s project work package on test prerequisites, test progress, and external defect status
  • Training business units on creating defects
  • Consolidating defects in Jira with the documented test executions in the test management tool (TVT)
  • Moderating a weekly exchange with business units and work package leaders on test topics
  • Supporting business units during the dress rehearsal and cut-over weekend with checks and tests
  • Analyzing current project structures and identifying improvement potential for testing
  • Defect and incident management during the dress rehearsal and cut-over weekend
  • Attending regular status meetings with project management
  • Creating status reports on test progress and an overview of current defects
  • Preparing materials for exchanges with internal audit and external auditors
Dec 2023 - Jun 2024
7 months
Münster, Germany

Test Lead & Test Coordinator

Banks & Financial Services

  • Planning and coordinating test activities, including functional and non-functional (load) tests
  • Identifying and defining test objectives, scope, and criteria for risk-based testing in coordination with stakeholders
  • Monitoring and controlling test progress, identifying and managing test risks
  • Reporting test results and defects to project management and stakeholders
  • Coordinating communication and collaboration between test teams, developers, and project participants
  • Conducting test reviews and quality checks
  • Continuous improvement of test processes and methods
  • Creating and maintaining test documentation
  • Advising on defining clear goals and tasks for the team
  • Planning and conducting team meetings and workshops
  • Identifying and resolving conflicts and obstacles within the team
Jun 2023 - Dec 2023
7 months
Hanover, Germany

Test Coordinator

Banks & Financial Services

  • Mapping new test sets in the QC TestLab as well as maintaining and structuring test cases in the TestPool
  • User management and support for test access, and controlling permissions in the time travel environment
  • Interface management: coordinating with the financial services provider on test prerequisites, test progress, and external defect status
  • Consolidating the status between recorded defects and test documentation to ensure audit compliance
  • Quality assurance: transferring and validating technical test documentation into QC
  • Test case optimization: consolidating the test case library at project close and adjusting the reusable set to reduce preparation effort
Apr 2023 - Dec 2023
9 months
Hanover, Germany

Test Coordinator

Banks & Financial Services

  • Setting up a defect management workflow
  • Supporting business units in creating test cases and coaching on prioritization
  • Acting as central contact for participating savings banks on test environment setup, test users, permissions, test execution, and documentation
  • Moderating exchanges on test obstacles between the savings bank and service provider
  • Managing deviations during test merges
  • Controlling and tracking test activities
  • Advising business unit representatives on documenting test executions
  • Training all savings banks during the cut-over weekend
  • Supporting savings banks during the dress rehearsal and cut-over weekend
  • Participating in regular status meetings with project management and business unit representatives
Jul 2020 - Mar 2023
2 years 9 months
Münster, Germany

Test Coordinator

Banks & Financial Service Providers

  • Central point of contact for the test coordinators of the eight state building societies and the test managers at the financial service provider
  • Support for customers in release approvals (workshops, content, environments, test users)
  • Planning, conducting, and moderating workshops with test coordinators from all state building societies
  • Assisting customers with aligning on common issues
  • Updating the existing test concept
  • Coordinating data reloads on acceptance institutes
  • Coordinating and managing the team supporting the acceptance institutes and their booking days
  • Planning and coordinating client changes on acceptance institutes
  • Planning and implementing a changed access to test systems for around 200 users
  • Aligning with test managers on the testing approach, QC usage, and key topics of the release approval
  • Creating institute profiles of the test institutes
  • Planning and coordinating the end-to-end business process test
Feb 2020 - Apr 2020
3 months
Münster, Germany

Test Coordinator & Test Manager

Banks & Financial Service Providers

  • Creating and maintaining the test plan, status overviews (test progress), and final reports
  • Describing the testing approach in the test plan and aligning with the project manager, quality officer, and testers
  • Coordinating and reviewing the handling of test activities and deviation management
  • Coordinating test case creation, test execution, and testers
  • Preparing and supporting the external acceptance with the customer
  • Planning and conducting the external remote acceptance
  • Adhering to and using the PMOplus workflows and tools
Dec 2018 - Mar 2019
4 months
Münster, Germany

Test Coordinator, Test Manager & Functional Test Specialist

Banks & Financial Service Providers

  • Getting familiar with the framework conditions (project assignment, application, and test process)
  • Creating and maintaining the test plan, status overviews (test progress), and final reports
  • Describing and aligning the testing approach
  • Submitting the test plan for review to the project manager and quality officer
  • Coordinating test case creation, test execution, and testers
  • Aligning the acceptance-relevant test case set with the customer
  • Planning and conducting the external multi-day acceptance with the customer
  • Methodical test case identification
  • Conducting manual progression tests
  • Analyzing the test results and test documentation
Jul 2018 - Mar 2023
4 years 9 months
Münster, Germany

Test Coordinator & Test Manager

Banks & Financial Service Providers

  • Coordinating and leading the 'Time Travel Acceptance Institutes' team
  • Facilitating regular status quo meetings between eight client entities and the financial service provider
  • Coaching team members
  • Optimizing existing testing processes
  • Central point of contact for the customer
  • QC support
  • Designing, aligning, and implementing the harmonization of external acceptance test cases for all building societies
  • Assisting in developing a booking days calendar to simulate a year-end using time travel
  • Managing the data reloads of the eight LBS time travel institutes (data extraction, anonymization, commissioning)
  • Coordinating and supporting test users
  • Providing methodological support in revising the central acceptance test case set
  • Supporting the multi-month external acceptance
  • Reporting test progress
  • Handling defect management
  • Assisting in resource planning for year-end
  • Designing and introducing the use of Jira & Confluence
  • Creating and maintaining the test plan and final reports
  • Describing the testing approach in the test plan and aligning with the project manager and quality officer
  • Coordinating test case creation, test execution, and testers
Dec 2016 - Jun 2018
1 year 7 months
Cologne, Germany

Test Coordinator, Test Analyst

Retail

  • Coordinating the test team
  • Optimizing existing testing processes
  • Reviewing requirement documents
  • Defining test cases based on requirements
  • Executing the agreed test cases
  • Documenting test results
  • Reporting test progress to stakeholders
May 2016 - Nov 2016
7 months
Cologne, Germany

Functional Test Specialist

Retail

  • Setting up the project's methodological realignment
  • Participating in planning, refinement and bucket estimation
  • Aligning and creating internal team agreements (Definition of Done, Definition of Ready, reviews)
  • Deriving test cases based on requirements and acceptance criteria
  • Training and supporting the in-house test automation tool
  • Further developing the test automation strategy
Feb 2015 - Apr 2016
1 year 3 months
Cologne, Germany

Business Analyst, Test Manager

Retail

  • Creating requirements specifications and aligning with the client
  • Gathering, executing and documenting test scenarios
  • Designing and implementing a test automation strategy
  • Training and supporting the use of test automation
  • Coordinating requirement implementations
  • Creating and adjusting business rules using tools
  • Analyzing production deviations
Aug 2014 - Dec 2014
5 months
Münster, Germany

Functional Test Specialist

Banks & Financial Service Providers

  • Systematically deriving test cases based on the interface specifications
  • Executing batch functional tests on the z/OS host
  • Analyzing test results
  • Recording findings in the client's system
  • Documenting tests in HP Quality Center
Apr 2014 - Jul 2014
4 months
Großostheim, Germany

Project Manager

Logistics

  • Acting as a liaison between the business unit, marketing, external development vendors and the client
  • Aligning release contents with the business unit
  • Planning releases
  • Managing the external development vendor
  • Documenting the project
Oct 2013 - Apr 2014
7 months
Großostheim, Germany

Test Manager, Functional Test Specialist, Project Manager

Logistics

  • Defining an appropriate test strategy
  • Detailed planning of test activities
  • Creating and documenting functional test cases
  • Executing the defined test cases
  • Preparing test reports
  • Managing deviations (coordination and retest)
  • Planning releases (contents and timelines)
  • Serving as an interface between the business unit, development and the client
  • Onboarding and coaching the project team
Jun 2012 - Sep 2013
1 year 4 months
Bonn, Germany

Test Coordinator, Functional Test Specialist

Logistics

  • Definition and specification of end-to-end business processes
  • Identifying and creating business process tests
  • Test execution and evaluation
  • Test automation
  • Interface responsibility for external interfaces and service providers
  • Setting up a documentation structure for test objects and topics in SharePoint and Confluence
  • Aligning and coordinating team activities in a SCRUM environment
  • Acting as a deputy for the functional test team lead
Aug 2011 - May 2012
10 months
Bonn, Germany

Test Coordinator, Functional Test Specialist

Logistics

  • Team leadership and coordination
  • Effort estimation by the test team for test phases
  • Managing the test team
  • Reporting on test progress
  • Coaching team members on test case identification methods
  • Coordinating the optimization of the regression test suite (test scope definition, evaluation, and consolidation)
  • Systematic test case identification for a browser-based portal application
  • Test case execution and evaluation of the functional test
May 2011 - Aug 2011
4 months
Darmstadt, Germany

Test Coordinator & Functional Test Specialist

Logistics

  • Design and consulting for HP Quality Center projects
  • Upgrading HPQC from version 9.0 to 10.0
  • Individual training for developers, testers, and clients
  • Consulting on the test process for various projects
  • Creating functional test cases
  • Conducting and coordinating functional system tests
  • Cross-project acceptance support
  • Deviation management
May 2009 - Mar 2011
1 year 11 months
Düsseldorf, Germany

Release Manager

Wholesale and Retail

  • Aligning release milestones for individual systems
  • Facilitating coordination meetings
  • Escalation point for milestone delays
May 2005 - Mar 2011
5 years 11 months
Düsseldorf, Germany

Test Manager & Functional Test Specialist

Wholesale and Retail

  • Coordinating the customer acceptance test and working with the client on functional and content-related questions
  • Developing project-specific test strategies in line with ISO 9001
  • Overseeing test processes and preparing test closure reports
  • Coordinating among development, operations, and support teams
  • Coordinating and coaching an international test team
  • Reviewing and analyzing functional and technical concepts
  • Developing and running SQL validation scripts on Teradata
  • Designing test and analysis reports in MicroStrategy
  • Creating and executing test cases for web-based applications for permission assignment and data warehouse maintenance
  • Coordinating the integration test and testing internal portal software for user creation and permission assignment
Apr 2004 - Mar 2011
7 years
Düsseldorf, Germany

Defect Manager

Wholesale and Retail Trade

  • Coordinating bug tracking between the test team, development, and customers
  • Defining a project standard for bug tracking in Mercury TestDirector, including introducing a defect management process
  • User training and support for test procedures and tools
  • Customizing and project administration of HP Quality Center
Jan 2004 - Apr 2005
1 year 4 months
Düsseldorf, Germany

Software Developer

Wholesale and Retail Trade

  • Designing and expanding software for mobile data capture
  • Connecting databases using ActiveX Data Objects
  • Developing and updating Oracle Forms and Reports for the main cash register reporting system
Sep 2001 - Jan 2004
2 years 5 months
Düsseldorf, Germany

Trainee IT Specialist in Application Development

Wholesale and Retail Trade

  • Software development for cash register software
  • Working in C, C++, Java, and Visual Basic

Summary

Senior Test Manager & Test Coordinator with over 20 years of experience in quality assurance of complex IT landscapes. My focus is on the banking and building society savings sector (OSPlus), supplemented by solid knowledge in retail and logistics. I combine methodical expertise according to ISTQB with deep operational routine in managing business-critical acceptance cycles. Thanks to confident communication in international environments and a systemic coaching approach, I also guide distributed teams safely through demanding transformation projects.

Skills

Core Competencies & Expertise

  • Strategic Test Management & Governance

  • Designing And Establishing Scalable Istqb Test Processes To Increase Release Reliability.

  • Standardizing Company-wide Defect Management Processes And Tool Landscapes.

  • Audit Readiness: Ensuring Compliance With Audit Requirements (Especially In Banking And Building Society Savings).

  • Operational Management & Tool Expertise

  • End-to-end Coordination Of Complex Acceptance Cycles (E.g. Annual Account Statements / Year-end).

  • Many Years Of Experience In The Methodical Use And Structuring Of Quality Center / Alm.

  • Agile & Classic: Confident Use Of Methods In Scrum And V-model Environments.

  • Data Validation: Sql-based Verification Of Test Results And Ensuring Data Consistency.

  • Team Leadership & Organizational Development

  • Enablement: Methodical Coaching And Training Of Teams On New Test Standards And Toolsets.

  • Intercultural Leadership: Managing International Test Teams And Coordinating External Service Providers.

  • Transformation: Coaching, Change Management & Value-driven Team Development.

  • Interface Moderation: Central Communication Between Business Units, It, And Management.

It Knowledge & Methodology

  • Strategic Test Planning And Test Design, Test Coordination, Test Management, Defect Management, Quality Center / Alm, Inflectra Spiratest, Atlassian Jira & Confluence (> 20 Years)
  • Istqb Full Advanced Level, Ireb, Qamp Quality Assurance Management Professional, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, V-model (> 20 Years)
  • Sql (In-depth Use For Result Verification), Teradata, Oracle, Xml, Db2 (> 15 Years)
  • Building Society Savings Sector, Osplus (Core Banking), Time Travel Environments, Interface Validation, Geoblocking, Z/os Host (8 Years)
  • Spiral Dynamics (Values), Systemic Coaching, Change Management (Advanced)

Languages

German
Native
English
Intermediate

Education

Sep 2001 - Jan 2004
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IT Specialist in Application Development · Düsseldorf, Germany

Certifications & licenses

IREB

ISTQB Full Advanced Level

QAMP® Quality Assurance Methodology

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