Hagen Steinbeck

IT Quality Manager

Steinigtwolmsdorf, Germany
Experience
Jan 2025 - Jun 2025
6 months
Remote

IT Quality Manager

Stadtwerke Bielefeld

The goal of the project is to develop a sustainable and effective IT quality management strategy for the IT department of Stadtwerke Bielefeld. This includes defining relevant roles and stakeholders, setting up an IT QM system, and enabling a new employee to successfully fill and further develop this role.

  • Analysis of the initial situation
  • Inventory of current processes and structures
  • Development of a QM framework
  • Definition of metrics to measure quality
  • Creation of a structured process for IT project quality assurance
  • Development of standards and templates
  • Planning, execution, and follow-up of lessons learned events

Environment: SharePoint, BIC Platform, MS Office, SMAX-ITSM

May 2023 - Mar 2024
11 months
Remote

Test Manager / Coordinator

Stadtwerke Stuttgart

Support of the redevelopment/migration of the entire service portfolio of a regional energy provider. The previous services (meter management, billing, personnel, etc.) were provided by external service providers and are now handled independently within the company's own IT department.

  • Design, setup, and maintenance of test environments
  • Support of interface integration tests
  • Creation and maintenance of the test case portfolio in Xray
  • Training in Xray
  • Monitoring and reporting of test executions, as well as defect and deviation management
  • Defect management

Environment: JIRA, Xray, Confluence, Signavio

Jan 2023 - Present
2 years 7 months
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Freelancer

Apr 2021 - Dec 2024
3 years 9 months
Hamburg, Germany
Hybrid

IT Quality Manager

Dataport

IT Quality Manager in software development. The project develops the platform for online services for citizens, in line with the Online Access Act (OZG). This included defining technical requirements, selecting suitable test infrastructures, and ensuring a stable and scalable environment for system, integration, and acceptance testing.

  • Responsibility for the quality management area
  • Analysis of existing quality requirements
  • Design, setup, and management of test environments
  • Monitoring and reporting of test executions, as well as defect and deviation management
  • Creation of a catalog of quality criteria and derivation of quality gates
  • Participation in regular meetings in development and testing
  • Planning, execution, and follow-up of lessons learned events

Environment: JIRA, Confluence, Azure DevOps, ARIS, MS Office, Ranorex, BrowserStack, SauceLabs

Apr 2021 - Dec 2022
1 year 9 months
Hybrid

Senior Consultant

BQnow – Business Quality now Keil

Jul 2018 - Apr 2021
2 years 10 months
Bautzen, Germany
On-site

Head of Quality Management, Project Manager

DEBAG – Deutsche Backofenbau GmbH

  • Head of Quality Management (07/2018 – 03/2021)

Led company-wide quality management. Established a QM system based on DIN ISO 9001 and carried out internal audits for continuous improvement of quality requirements.

  • Company-wide coordination of QM and QA
  • Analysis, implementation, and control of QM processes
  • Conducting internal and external audits
  • Direct reporting to management
  • Personnel management

Environment: Sage ERP b7, SharePoint, Confluence, MS Office

  • Project Manager (11/2019 – 03/2020)

Project management for the spin-off of a production line. The work included coordination and communication at all involved levels until the line was operational at the new location.

  • Execution of the production line relocation
  • Coordination of internal departments
  • Planning and coordination of external companies and services
  • Controlling time, budget, and resources

Environment: Sage ERP b7, MS Office

Oct 2015 - Jun 2018
2 years 9 months
Allendorf, Germany
Hybrid

Senior Consultant, Team Lead, TOSCA Specialist

VIESSMANN

The client develops components for existing heating systems to make them smart and internet-connected. The project scope ranged from analyzing requirement specifications to defining use cases, deriving test cases, and executing tests on physical systems. This included defining technical requirements, selecting suitable test infrastructures, and ensuring a stable and scalable environment for system, integration, and acceptance testing.

  • Creation of test documentation
  • Design, setup, and maintenance of test environments
  • Analysis of system requirements
  • Planning of test resources (team)
  • Technical contact for test execution
  • Defect management
  • Monitoring and reporting of test executions, as well as defect and deviation management

Environment: JIRA, Confluence, JIRA Xray, TOSCA Testsuite

May 2014 - Sep 2015
1 year 5 months
Hybrid

Senior Consultant, Team Lead, TOSCA Specialist

Stuttgarter Börse

Development of proprietary trading software in collaboration with an international development team. Based on existing use cases, requirements were derived, test cases were defined, and test execution was carried out.

  • Analysis of business concepts in trading
  • TOSCA TestCaseDesign creation
  • Planning of test resources (team)
  • Creation and execution of logical and concrete test cases
  • Maintenance of test data
  • Monitoring and reporting of test executions, as well as defect and deviation management
  • Quality assurance of the test portfolio

Environment: TOSCA Testsuite, MS Office, Confluence

Sep 2013 - Apr 2014
8 months
Munich, Germany
Hybrid

Analyst, Test Designer

Bayerische Landesbank

Support in executing provided test cases. The client supplied test cases based on Excel documentation. An import was created to map the portfolio in TOSCA. Personalized execution lists were then provided to the client for processing.

  • Analysis of business concepts in lending
  • Development of an Excel <-> TOSCA import template
  • Creation of execution lists and test assignments
  • Provision of tenants for test execution
  • Documentation and control of test execution
  • Monitoring and reporting of test executions, as well as defect and deviation management

Environment: TOSCA Testsuite, MS Office

Nov 2012 - Jun 2018
5 years 8 months
Görlitz, Germany
Hybrid

Senior Consultant

QIQ Qcentris intelligent Quality GmbH

Summary

The consultant has solid knowledge in business informatics, quality management, and software development. His expertise is complemented by extensive hands-on experience in project management and test management, always focusing on key aspects such as time, budget, and resources. These skills contribute to a strong leadership profile aimed at comprehensive software quality assurance. He demonstrates high commitment and solution orientation, even in complex tasks. As a dependable team player, he brings deep technical knowledge. He acquired the necessary management tools during his many years as a quality manager. An efficient and goal-oriented way of working is one of his special strengths.

Languages
German
Native
English
Advanced
French
Elementary
Education
Oct 2010 - Jul 2013

State Cooperative Education Academy Bautzen

Bachelor of Science · Business Informatics · Bautzen, Germany

Certifications & licenses

Quality Auditor

TÜV

Quality Officer

TÜV

ISTQB Certified Tester – Agile Tester

Certified Professional for Project Management

ITIL Foundation Level

Tricentis TOSCA Testsuite Certified User, Foundation Level

Trade Fair Management

ISTQB Certified Tester, Foundation Level

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