Matthias G. - Requirements Engineer and Test Manager

Palma, Spain

Experience

Mar 2024 - Present

1 year 7 months

Requirements engineering, testing and application support for a control unit planning software used by automotive manufacturers.

Work packages in requirements engineering, documentation, administration, support and testing/QS
Facilitating stakeholder workshops to gather requirements and additional information
Collecting information through system archaeology and stakeholder interviews
End-to-end requirements engineering
Conceptual work for requirement preparation (UML, tables, etc.)
Defining acceptance criteria for requirements
Defining test cases and test steps from acceptance criteria
Test management, testing, and documentation
Working with agile methods (user stories, sprints, Kanban) and test management (Zephyr for Jira)

Dec 2023 - Apr 2024

5 months

Analysis and business case development for the European used car sector.

Analyzing data flows, business processes and cost structures in the used car market of European countries
Communicating with stakeholders at all levels in a European context
Analyzing and preselecting suitable technical partners for the use case implementation
Developing the business case as a decision basis for the board

Feb 2023 - Dec 2023

11 months

Rollout of harmonized Jira and Confluence configurations and processes in over 10 solution trains including data and user migration.

Learning the company's specific Agile SAFe configuration independently and quickly
Understanding and categorizing existing roles
Routine use of SAFe artifacts and ceremonies
Close and direct collaboration with the Product Owner
Joint definition and elaboration of SAFe features for PI planning
Clarifying project progress and impediments in the daily scrum
Refinement and prioritization of backlog items and change requests
Developing the roadmap and ensuring timeline adherence
Supporting cost and resource planning
Creating presentations for management
Process analysis and optimization
Determining the status quo of processes and configurations in Jira and Confluence
Standardizing and optimizing processes
Drafting rollout plan for data and user migration
Monitoring compliance with all process steps, deadlines and defined migration milestones
Stakeholder management
Stakeholder analysis, management and ongoing communication with management, migration candidates and the development team
Establishing communication channels
Early communication and objection handling with migration critics
Ensuring all migration candidates can work effectively
Conducting live training sessions and providing training videos
Creating and updating documentation in the onboarding portal
Risk analysis
Identifying and evaluating risks as part of PI planning
Continuous risk mitigation
Controlling and reporting
Regular project reporting to PO, PM, solution and cross-solution management as well as business owner

Jan 2019 - Dec 2023

5 years

Sep 2018 - Present

7 years 1 month

Demand management / requirements analysis
Change management
Identifying growth opportunities and process optimizations
Developing new business areas
Applying agile methods (Scrum, SAFe, Kanban, epic and user story definition, product backlog maintenance)
Planning and conducting workshops and training sessions
Stakeholder management
IT project management

Feb 2014 - Aug 2018

4 years 7 months

Karlsruhe, Germany

HR platform for job seekers and companies.

Developing a scalable business model
Defining and communicating the product vision
Building and leading a team of over 50 employees
Gathering and defining requirements for the in-house developed online marketplace
Coordinating all stakeholders (development team, departments, customers)
Implementing a CRM tool including API interface definitions
Introducing agile structures (daily scrum, Lean Startup, OKR management framework)
Establishing and continuously optimizing all operational processes
Creating KPI dashboards using SQL queries
Financial planning and controlling
Building a customer base of 1000+ clients (including EnBW, Lenovo, Stihl, Stadtwerke Karlsruhe, L-Bank)
Project planning and management including communication
Planning and conducting strategy and vision workshops
Facilitating retrospectives
Providing methodological coaching to teams
Introducing the OKR framework to align the team
Designing reporting for process control
Developing global and employee-specific dashboards (accessing relational database data via SQL queries)
Cross-departmental budget planning