Matthias Geis

Requirements Engineer and Test Manager

Palma, Spain

Experience

Mar 2024 - Present
1 year 5 months

Requirements Engineer and Test Manager

International operating ICT service provider

Requirements engineering, testing and application support for an ECU planning software for automotive manufacturers.

  • Work packages in requirements engineering, documentation, administration, support and testing/quality assurance
  • Moderation of stakeholder workshops, elicitation of requirements and additional information
  • Collection of information through system archaeology and stakeholder interviews
  • End-to-end requirements engineering
  • Conceptual work for requirement preparation (UML, tables, etc.)
  • Definition of acceptance criteria for requirements
  • Definition of test cases and test steps from acceptance criteria
  • Test management, review, and documentation
  • Working with agile methods (user stories, sprints, Kanban) and test management (Zephyr for Jira)
Dec 2023 - Apr 2024
5 months

Business Analyst

European headquarters of a Japanese automotive manufacturer

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

  • Analysis of data flows, business processes and cost structures in the used car market of European countries
  • Communication with stakeholders at all levels in a European context
  • Analysis and preselection of suitable technical partners for use case implementation
  • Business case development as decision basis for the executive board
Feb 2023 - Dec 2023
11 months

Migration & Change Manager in an agile SAFe environment

Software brand of a global automotive manufacturer

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

  • Independent and rapid learning of company-specific agile SAFe configuration
  • Understanding and classification of existing roles
  • Proficient handling of SAFe artifacts and ceremonies
  • Close and direct collaboration with the Product Owner
  • Joint definition and elaboration of SAFe features for PI planning
  • Clarification of project progress and impediments in daily scrum
  • Refinement and prioritization of backlog items and change requests
  • Development of roadmap and ensuring adherence to timeline
  • Support in cost and resource planning
  • Creation of presentations for management
  • Process analysis and optimization
  • Determination of the status quo of processes and configurations in Jira and Confluence
  • Standardization and optimization of processes
  • Development of rollout plan for data and user migration
  • Monitoring compliance with all process steps, schedules and defined migration milestones
  • Stakeholder management
  • Stakeholder analysis, management and continuous communication with management level, migration candidates and development team
  • Establishment of communication channels
  • Early communication and objection handling with migration skeptics
  • Ensuring the ability to work of all migration candidates
  • Conducting live training sessions and providing training videos
  • Creation and updating of documentation in the onboarding portal
  • Risk analysis
  • Identification and evaluation of risks within PI planning
  • Ongoing risk mitigation
  • Controlling and reporting
  • Regular project reporting to PO, PM, solution and cross-solution management and business owner
Jan 2019 - Dec 2023
5 years

Business Analyst and Project Manager

Clients in technology, telecommunications, e-commerce, social media, and Web 3.0 sectors

  • Introduction of new and optimization of existing processes
  • Planning and conducting workshops with relevant stakeholders
  • Conceptualization and implementation of projects
  • Creation and evaluation of reports
  • Setup of an online shop and introduction of logistics and production processes
  • Consulting on topics such as financing/crowdfunding/brand presence
Sep 2018 - Present
6 years 11 months

Business Analyst, Freelancer

Freelancer

  • Demand management / requirements analysis
  • Change management
  • Identification of growth potentials and process optimizations
  • Development of new business areas
  • Application of 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

Managing Director and COO

Campusjäger GmbH

HR platform for job seekers and companies.

  • Development of a scalable business model
  • Establishment and communication of the product vision
  • Team building and leadership of over 50 employees
  • Requirements elicitation and definition for the in-house developed online marketplace
  • Coordination of all stakeholders (development team, business units, customers)
  • Introduction of a CRM tool including API interface definitions
  • Implementation of agile structures (daily scrum, lean startup, OKR management framework)
  • Establishment and continuous optimization of all operational processes
  • Creation of KPI dashboards using SQL queries
  • Financial planning and controlling
  • Acquisition of a client base of 1000+ clients (including EnBW, Lenovo, Stihl, Stadtwerke Karlsruhe, L-Bank)
  • Project planning and management including communication
  • Planning and facilitation of strategy and vision workshops
  • Moderation of retrospectives
  • Methodical coaching of teams
  • Introduction of the OKR framework to align the team
  • Design of reporting for process control
  • Development of global and employee-specific dashboards (access to relational database data via SQL queries)
  • Cross-departmental budget planning
Jan 2013 - Dec 2015
2 years

Business Development, Coaching & Mentoring

Largest regional high-tech entrepreneurs network in Europe

  • Optimization of a CRM system
  • Creation of complex reporting for more efficient analysis of company data
  • Analysis and evaluation of new business ideas
  • Creation of a website based on WordPress and HTML
  • Planning, execution and evaluation of events
Jan 2009 - Dec 2011
2 years

Software Development

Clients in Tourism and IT Services sectors

  • Project planning and implementation of software projects
  • Development of a coding standards validator plug-in for the Eclipse IDE
  • Working with API interfaces (REST, XML, JSON)
  • Further development of an Android app for private accommodation bookings
  • Project presentations at executive level

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
Spanish
Elementary

Education

Oct 2013 - Jun 2016

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

B.Sc. · Industrial Engineering · Karlsruhe, Germany

Certifications & licenses

Project Management Expert