Test Manager

Partner onboarding, receivables purchase, online payment processing

• Connecting a major payment provider to our services for handling open-invoice transactions.

• Collaboration of multiple engineering teams in a complex, agile overall project.

• International project context with a US customer.

• Test management and design of integration and end-to-end tests.

• Test coordination and execution, including customer integration.

• Building an end-to-end test framework for automated tests with CI/CD integration.

• Setting up SAP test environments.

• SAP FI-GL/-AR/-AP end-to-end test integration.

• Test case specification for manual and automated tests.

• Establishing a company-wide Quality Enabling Team.

• Java

• Kotlin

• PostgreSQL

• Kafka

• REST API

• SAP FI

• Microservices

• Kubernetes

• AWS

• GitHub & Jenkins CI/CD

• Postman

• Jira

• Confluence

• Miro

• IntelliJ

Kafka-based integration of assets, trailers, and schedules

• Interface migration to new technologies and integration into the group-wide infrastructure.

• Use of these new interfaces as part of automating trailer planning.

• Classic waterfall project with analysis, design, implementation and testing, agile character through cooperation with neighboring projects.

• Analysis as part of various development initiatives.

• Test concept and planning.

• Setup and maintenance of Kafka test environment.

• Test coordination with interface partner projects.

• Derivation and documentation of test cases.

• Test execution, reporting, and defect management.

• Smalltalk (trailer planning system) / Java (trailer campaign system)

• Kafka

• Jira

• Confluence

Scheduling system for linear TV

• Introduced a broadcast scheduling software with extensive customizations and integration into a complex system infrastructure.

• Optimized many business processes in program and broadcast planning, balancing tool customization vs. process adjustment.

• Traditional waterfall project with business and requirements analysis, design, implementation, and testing.

• Test management for various system components in asset/content/contract management, ad time sales, and pop-up channels.

• ERP integration testing.

• Test planning and coordination for these components.

• Test management of acceptance tests for the entire project with a team of over 50 testers.

• Defect management and retest coordination.

• Smalltalk

• Java

• XML

• Jira

• MS Office

New in-vehicle device release for the German toll system

• International project to meet European interoperability of different toll systems.

• Release-specific test planning and coordination of a team of 5 testers.

• Testing embedded software of the vehicle devices including OTA updates, microwave and infrared communication, GPS data injection, among others.

• Test documentation and results reporting.

• MW / IR tools for onboard unit communication

• Micro Focus ALM

• ClearQuest

• Jira

Sales system for ad time sales

• Mission-critical project for continuous improvement of ad time sales, asset scheduling, and document generation. Offshore involvement in software development, numerous interfaces to other systems.

• Test planning and specification for software releases.

• Test execution.

• Monitoring defect fixes and retesting.

• Planning and coordination of acceptance tests for the sales system with many specialist testers.

• Java

• XML

• Jira

• MS Office