Knut Nickol

Sales system (booking system) in an agile SAFe environment

Professional focus: Tester and Quality Coordinator

Tasks: Creating and executing test cases, including documentation Coordinating QA throughout the entire development process

Responsibilities:

• Manual testing: DB Navigator, bahn.de and employee frontend VSPro
• Requirements analysis, creation, execution, reporting of test cases
• Main contact for QA questions
• Participation in design workshops and identifying risks from a QA perspective
• Conducting DoR checks on requirements
• Checking adherence to deadlines
• Supporting teams from a QA perspective up to acceptance

Methods: SAFe, Kanban, Agile

Results: Test case catalog, test reports Acceptance declarations Service agreements/SLAs with third-party providers QA-secured development: DB Navigator, bahn.de, employee frontend VSPro

Technologies/Tools:

Android Studio, XRAY, JIRA, Confluence, Office 365, Git, Grafana, CI/CD

• On-board staff information system in an agile environment
• Professional focus: Tester, hands-on Test Manager
• Creating and executing test cases, including documentation
• Coordinating quality assurance throughout the entire development process
• Requirements analysis as well as creating and executing test cases for mobile apps
• Coordination of a test team of 5 people
• Creating test reports and release declarations
• Participation in agile meetings
• Customer contact on quality assurance topics
• Methods: Kanban, Agile
• Results: Test reports, release declarations
• Technologies/Tools: Android, JIRA, XRAY, ALM, MS Office

• Requirements analysis of a real estate portal (B2C, B2B) in an agile environment
• Key focus areas: Requirements Engineer, Business Analyst, Business Engineer
• Ensuring business and technical requirements
• Point of contact for product owner and development team
• Requirements analysis and creation of epics and user stories
• Partly taking on the role of Scrum Master
• Communication between development team and product owner
• Methods: Kanban, Agile
• Results: Agile deliverables (epics, user stories), smooth development of the web portal
• Technologies/Tools: JIRA, Confluence, Invision, MS Office

• Quality assurance and testing of the Deutsche Börse AG website
• Key focus areas: Test management, testing, product owner
• Single point of contact to the external web service provider
• Test management and execution of user acceptance tests and end-to-end tests
• Test case creation and reporting of test results
• Communication and coordination with the external provider
• Coordination of development according to release schedule
• Support for rollouts and go-lives
• Execution and management of testing activities
• Methods: Kanban, Agile
• Results: Successful go-lives and rollouts
• Technologies/Tools: JIRA, Confluence, iOS, Android

• QA and testing of Deutsche Telekom billing software
• Deputy subproject lead in the quality assurance environment
• Test planning, test data creation, and test execution
• Planning and execution of migration tests
• Project planning and milestone planning
• Data modeling
• Coordination of test activities and test data creation
• Review of functional specifications
• Creation of test concepts, test plans, and status reports
• Planning and documentation of test cases
• Validation of test results
• Organization and leading of meetings
• Tools: BMC/ARS Remedy, MS Project, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Sybase PowerDesigner, Mercury Quality Center, SoapUI, HP/Mercury Quality Center (user level, reports)

• Time-critical project: redesign of T-Online customer center
• Leading quality assurance for an offshore development
• Ensuring testing activities and measures in the project
• Coordinating testing activities between onshore and offshore teams
• Communication between business units and developers
• Creating and reviewing test scenarios and test cases
• Preparing test data
• Executing system tests and system integration tests
• Configuring the test environment
• Tools: ClearCase, WinRunner, TOAD, PuTTY, UltraEdit, BEA WebLogic, Unix

• Project management and support in new media with focus on QA and testing
• Project management and operational support
• Requirements management and controlling
• Communication between business units
• Consulting on web usability
• UI testing and functionality analysis
• Aligning a style guide for web interfaces
• Conducting and documenting functional tests

• Web interfaces and HTML frameworks for company websites
• Advice on usability, style guide, corporate identity, and corporate design
• Creating HTML templates
• Creating search forms and result lists
• Writing CSS for layout and design
• Writing a compact style guide
• Technologies/tools: HTML, CSS, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Homesite, UltraEdit

• Intranet and Internet projects in a corporate environment
• Web programming, content creation, and graphic design
• Consulting, planning, development, and maintenance of various intranet sites
• Communication between departments
• Creating parts of the internet presence according to internal guidelines
• Setting up multiple online forums (e.g., sales market forum, HR FAQ forum)
• Requirements analysis (business analysis) and creating requirements documents
• Advising on usability and software ergonomics (GUI, style guide, corporate design, branding)
• Installing, administering, and configuring search engines (Verity, ht.DIG) including search forms
• Creating smart forms with JavaScript
• Customizing form mailers
• Creating online help and documentation
• Programming Perl and PHP scripts, MySQL, and JavaScript
• Preparing and creating content as well as editorial tasks
• Graphic and web design
• Technologies/tools: HTML/DHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Perl/CGI, PHP, MySQL, phpMyAdmin, MySQL-Front, Reddot web content management system, Homesite, UltraEdit, Photoshop, MS Office

• Implementing over 100 websites and online shop systems
• Working with systems like Magento, Joomla!, Contao, Typo3, modifiedShop, WordPress, Kunena forum, phpBB forum, phpList newsletter system, and others
• Planning, design, and technical implementation of websites and shops
• Consulting on web technologies, CMS, and online shop systems
• Focus on usability, responsive design, and performance
• Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, responsive design, Linux, Apache

• Thesis in mechanical/aerospace engineering in cooperation with MBB
• Capturing the physical environment of a technical system
• Converting the mathematical description into a numerical model
• Determining useful parametric inputs
• Visualizing processes and results
• Defining optimal parameter settings
• Developing a new solution followed by a patent application
• Documenting the patent application
• Thesis evaluation: Excellent
• Technologies/Tools: QuickBasic, Windows 3.1, MS Word