Mohamed Elsayed
Test Manager & Defect Manager
Experience
Sep 2023 - Oct 2024
1 year 2 months Germany
Test Manager & Defect Manager
BMBF
- Planning and control of test activities and support of the specialist team
- Reviewing requirements, user stories, and test cases
- Responsible for preparing test environments and test data
- Creating test sets and executing tests in XRay
- Defect analysis, deviation management, and reporting results
- Coordination with other business and technical project teams
- Tools used: Jira, Confluence, XRay
- Standards used: Scrum, Kanban
Sep 2023 - Aug 2024
1 year Germany
Test Analyst & Coordinator
Telekommunikation
- Creating a test specification for each release
- Analyzing requirements to derive additional user stories and test cases
- Conducting acceptance tests according to the created specification
- Creating defect reports in the software supplier’s bug tracking system
- Participating in bi-weekly sprint reviews
- Preparing acceptance reports
- Tools used: Jira, Confluence, XRay
- Standards used: Scrum, Kanban
Jul 2023 - Aug 2023
2 months Germany
Test Automation & Test Manager
Sparkasse
- Test planning, conception, and control of test activities
- Reviewing requirements, user stories, and test cases
- Responsible for preparing test environments and test data
- Creating test cases, test sets, and executing tests
- Defect analysis, deviation management, and reporting results
- Tools used: Jira, Confluence, Appium, Android Studio, Docker, GitLab
- Standards used: Scrum, Kanban
May 2022 - Mar 2023
11 months Germany
Test Manager, Coordinator and Defect Manager
Telecolumbus PYUR
- Planning and control of test activities and support of the specialist team
- Reviewing requirements, user stories, and test cases
- Responsible for preparing test environments and test data
- Creating test sets and executing tests in XRay
- Defect analysis, deviation management, and reporting results
- Tools used: Jira, Confluence, XRay
- Standards used: Scrum
May 2018 - Apr 2022
4 years Hamburg, Germany
Senior Software Tester & Automation Expert
Hamburg Süd
- Test process analysis and consulting
- Analyzing requirements and coordinating with the business team
- Test case design, creation, and preparation for test execution
- Smoke test, system test, integration test, regression, and UAT
- Test automation process analysis and consulting
- Meetings with international stakeholders and alignment
- Managing and tracking defects
- Test automation with Java and Selenium
- Supporting test and development teams & knowledge transfer
- Tools used: Jira, Confluence, Selenium, TestRail, Solman, Cypress
- Standards used: Scrum, Kanban
Sep 2017 - Apr 2018
8 months Germany
Functional Tester, Test Coordinator
Volkswagen AG
- General coordination with the business team, product owners, and offshore team
- Analyzing system specifications and aligning with product owners
- Maintaining and analyzing ALM
- Meetings with international stakeholders and alignment
- Planning test cycles: system, integration, regression, UAT
- Managing offshore test team, training, and knowledge transfer
- Managing and tracking defects
- Reporting and analysis
- Tools used: HP-ALM, Jira, Confluence, XRay
- Standards used: Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall
Dec 2016 - Aug 2017
9 months Germany
Functional Tester, Tosca Test Automation Expert
Hermes GmbH
- Analyzing requirements and creating test cases
- Creating logical and concrete test cases
- Developing and optimizing automated test cases
- Solving complex automation issues with Tosca
- Test data collection and manipulation in MySQL
- Defect management in Jira
- Regular participation in all Scrum activities
- Tools used: Jira, Tosca, XRay, MySQL
- Standards used: Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall
Feb 2016 - Nov 2016
10 months Germany
Functional Tester, Test Coordinator
Volkswagen AG
- General coordination with the business team, product owners, and offshore team
- Analyzing system specifications and aligning with product owners
- Maintaining and analyzing ALM
- Meetings with international stakeholders and alignment
- Planning test cycles: system, integration, regression, UAT
- Managing offshore test team, training, and knowledge transfer
- Managing and tracking defects
- Reporting and analysis
- Tools used: HP-ALM, Jira, Confluence
- Standards used: Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall
Dec 2014 - Jan 2016
1 year 2 months Germany
Mobile Apps Tester
Vodafone
- Analyzing requirements and aligning with the business unit
- Creating test cases and checking test coverage
- Preparing test data and environments
- Test execution: system test, integration test, regression, and UAT
- Defect management: analyzing, logging, and tracking defects
- Close collaboration with business unit and developers
- Tools used: Jira, Confluence, Appium
- Standards used: Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall
Sep 2013 - Nov 2014
1 year 3 months Germany
Manual Tester, Tosca Automation Tester
Allianz
- Analyzing system specifications and aligning with the business team
- Creating logical user stories
- Aligning with the business team on completeness and coverage
- Creating detailed manual test cases
- Executing manual tests and reporting results
- Defining test automation processes
- Designing and developing automation scripts and modules in Tosca
- Deviation management
- Tools used: Tosca, Jira, HP-on Demand
- Standards used: Waterfall
Feb 2013 - Aug 2013
7 months Germany
Test Analyst
Voith Group
- Analyzing project requirements
- Creating user stories and test cases
- Smoke test, system test, integration test, regression, and UAT
- Executing manual tests and reporting results
- Capturing, analyzing, logging, retesting, and reporting defects
- Tools used: Jira, Confluence, HP-ALM
- Standards used: Waterfall
Jan 2013 - Present
12 years 7 months Hamburg, Germany
IT Consultant, Software Tester, Test Automation Expert, Test Coordinator
- Requirement management
- Creating and optimizing test concepts
- Planning and executing test automation
- Introducing test tools and processes
- Serving as test coordinator and/or quality manager in various projects
- Defect management
Jan 1999 - Dec 2014
14 years Egypt
Tour Guide and Sightseeing Guide, Translator and Interpreter (Freelancer)
Summary
Test automation, test analysis, exploratory testing, end-to-end, integration test, regression test, UAT, requirements analysis, process optimization.
Many years of experience in different areas of the IT industry
Cross-industry IT experience (logistics and transport, automotive, banking, telecommunications, insurance, international trade, mechanical engineering IoT, ERP, finance).
Languages
Arabic
Native
German
Advanced
English
Intermediate
Education
Sep 1996 - Jun 2000
Al-Azhar University
German Studies and Translatology · Egypt
Sep 1992 - Jul 1996
Giza Secondary School
High School Diploma (Abitur) · Giza, Egypt
Certifications & licenses
ISTQB® Certified Foundation Level Extension Agile Tester
ISTQB®
Tosca® Test Professional
ISTQB® Certified Tester, Foundation Level
ISTQB®
PractiQ® - Certified Foundation Level
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