Test Manager

A new non-linear rights management system was connected to the Full Episode Distribution System in order to enable it to create compliant orders for downstream systems. Interface, Architecture and business processes needed to be designed, implemented and tested. In this project I did the analysis for and with the affected business departments and technical implementation teams, oversaw the implementation and supported the E2E testing process.

Business Analyst for connecting a new rights management system:

• Architecture design, interface design, support for business units and technical implementation teams
• Business requirements analysis of transactions
• Implementation support and clarification of open issues between two development teams
• Preparation, coordination and follow-up of end-to-end testing

Solution Consultant for standardizing the broadcast planning system and replacing the program planning system:

• As part of consolidating the system landscape, a legacy planning system is to be merged into another already used system, which will be reverted from previous customizations back to the standard product functions
• Business process analysis, standard vs. custom research
• Interface redesign
• Redesign of numerous business processes to fit a standard installation

Partner onboarding, receivables purchase, online payment processing

• Integration of a major payment service provider with our services for processing open-invoice transactions.

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

• International project context with a US client.

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

• Test coordination and execution including client integration.

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

• SAP test environment setup.

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

• Test case specification for manual and automated tests.

• Establishment of 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, schedules

• Interface migration to new technologies and integration into the corporate infrastructure.

• Use of these new interfaces as part of an automation of trailer planning.

• Classic waterfall project with analysis, design, implementation and testing, agile in nature due to cooperation with adjacent projects.

• Analysis as part of various development initiatives.

• Test design 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 broadcast scheduling software with extensive customization and integration into a complex system infrastructure.

• Optimized numerous business processes in program and broadcast scheduling, weighing tool customization vs. process adjustment.

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

• Test management for various system components in asset, content, and contract management, ad sales, and regional channels.

• ERP integration testing.

• Test planning and coordination for these components.

• Managed acceptance tests for the whole project with a testing team of more than 50 specialized testers.

• Defect management and coordination of retests.

• Smalltalk

• Java

• XML

• Jira

• MS Office

New vehicle devices release for the German toll system

• International project to meet European interoperability requirements of various 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, and more.

• Test documentation and result reporting.

• MW/IR tools for onboard unit communication

• Microfocus ALM

• ClearQuest

• Jira

Sales system for ad time marketing

• Mission-critical project for continuous improvement of ad time marketing, ad creative allocation and document generation. Offshore collaboration in software development, with numerous interfaces to other systems.

• Test planning and specification for software releases.

• Test execution.

• Monitoring defect fixes and retesting.

• Planning and coordinating acceptance tests of the sales system with multiple business testers.

• Java

• XML

• Jira

• MS Office