Franziska K.
Strategy Consulting
Experience
Strategy Consulting
AXA Germany
- Developing a new test strategy for AXA Germany
- Analyzing the existing strategy and identifying current pain points
- Creating a survey to determine the status quo of current testing activities for each application system in the group
- Building a business case as a decision template for the executive board
- Developing a roadmap and related capacity planning to implement the new test strategy
- Optimizing internal planning processes regarding test capacities
- Coordinating offshore activities and serving as the interface between the onsite team and offshore experts
Deputy Delivery Manager
AXA AG
- Full responsibility for compliance with all contract components across all 3 subprojects
- Quality assurance of deliverables
- Budget and personnel planning
- Stakeholder management
- Conflict management
- Creating management reports
- Establishing new reporting structures
- Process analysis & optimization (internal team and collaboration with external teams)
- Coordinating with offshore
- Removing technical impediments
Test Manager
AXA AG
- Creating test strategies
- Coordinating with development teams
- Setting up a defect management process
- Setting up JIRA boards including dashboards and reports
- Removing technical impediments
- Restructuring teams and processes to optimize collaboration
- Creating management reports
- Quality assurance of deliverables
- Coordinating with offshore
Functional Project Lead and Subject Matter Expert
ALH Group
- Defining project goals
- Defining and prioritizing work packages
- Project planning & control (budget, capacities, timing)
- Creating management reports
- Conducting steering committee meetings
- Conflict management
- Stakeholder management
- Coordinating with the technical project team
- Conducting requirements workshops
- Functional concept design
- Optimizing business processes
- Setting up and establishing a regression test
- Adapting processes to agile working methods in a corporate environment
- Supporting the business department through requirement specification, business analysis, and test activities
PMO, Business Requirements Engineer, Scrum Master, Delivery Committee Member
AXA AG
Requirements analysis
Creating interface analyses including a 'big picture'
Creating test strategies
Acting as a liaison to the responsible parties in the integration teams and between the onsite and offshore teams
Defining and conducting the onboarding process
Creating training materials for employees
Conducting employee training and team workshops
Introducing agile working methods for 2 Scrum teams and one agile Kanban team
Establishing all Scrum events
Supporting the Product Owners in defining the product backlog
Setting up team-specific Scrum and Kanban boards
Monitoring Jira boards including dashboards and reports
Tracking and increasing team velocity
Mentoring and conflict management
Supporting the agile transformation in cooperation with other Scrum Masters
Restructuring teams and processes to optimize collaboration
Planning and progress tracking
Creating management reports
Quality assurance of deliverables
Coordinating with offshore
Stakeholder management
Budget and personnel planning
PMO
STRABAG Property and Facility Services GmbH
- Organizing steering committees and team meetings, including preparing presentations, taking minutes and follow-up
- Managing internal and cross-program project communication, including with external service providers
- Maintaining and managing project folders
- Establishing and maintaining a project activity list
- Risk management and risk analysis
- Stakeholder analysis and stakeholder management
- Creating project plans and tracking milestones
- Preparing project status reports
- Preparing decision templates
- Preparing training materials for employees
- Creating the program newsletter for internal staff
Business Analyst & PMO
Allianz Deutschland AG
- Coordinating, planning, and aligning implementation options with clients, users, functional design, and architecture
- Preparing subproject descriptions and defining work packages
- Analyzing the organizational and process aspects of requirements, assessing feasibility including cost-benefit, and estimating time and effort
- Monitoring project progress
- Developing implementation concepts, business rules, and use cases
- Supporting the IT team during implementation
- Ensuring quality and managing tests, including defining, executing, and documenting test cases in coordination with the Indian test center
- Conducting client acceptance tests
- Resolving issues in operational processes
- Planning and documenting the project
- Logging tasks and time in Planview
- Preparing status reports and taking minutes
- Identifying risks and plan deviations, reporting them to project management
- Onboarding and training new employees
Summary
In her previous projects, Ms. Knoblauch was always able to impress with a combination of project management skills and insurance knowledge.
With her structured approach, she always keeps the project goals in view, recognizes interdependencies, and sets the right priorities. In addition, she dives deep into the topics and can thus contribute to project success with her professional know-how.
Languages
Certifications & licenses
Certified SAFe® 5 Agilist
Scaledagile.com
Digital Process Management
ManagementCircle
IPMA Level D (Project Management Specialist) GPM®
Professional Product Owner
Scrum.org
Professional Scrum Master
Scrum.org
Similar Freelancers
Discover other experts with similar qualifications and experience
- English
- Deutsch
2025 © FRATCH.IO GmbH. All rights reserved.