Mohammed Abu-rugaya
Consultant Test Management and Test Environment Management
Consultant Test Management and Test Environment Management
BITMARCK Holding GmbH
Tracking and monitoring releases and system updates, including the electronic patient record and the core system 21c and NG, on BITMARCK's and health insurers' test environments. Test management consulting.
Key tasks include communication with technical teams such as IT admins and test environment provisioning. The goal is to ensure that the health insurers’ test environments are always available and receive all releases and system updates. Additionally, communication with the health insurers was continuously maintained, informing them about the status and availability of the test environments.
Test Manager CRT, BRT, LRT, (E2E), IRT
Telefónica Germany GmbH & Co. OHG
Parallel project. Set up, structure, and coordinate the entire test management process across test phases for the fiber network implementation in the Deutsche Telekom AG context. Work with external partners in the E2E test phase with a hands-on approach, as in all phases. Status meetings with the business and DTAG, serving as the DTAG SPOC for solution-oriented cooperation. Defect management in this subproject. Test Manager for the following test phases:
- Customer Readiness Test (CRT)
- Business Readiness Test (BRT)
- Launch Readiness Test (LRT)
- End-to-End Test with external partners (E2E)
- Issue Resolution Test (IRT) Team: 4 testers / 1 test analyst.
- Conception
- Planning
- Organization
- Resource management
- Coordination
- Defect / incident management
- Reporting
- Primary interface to Deutsche Telekom AG
Tools used:
- MS Office (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
- Jira
- Confluence
- Teams
Client internal tools:
- SALCUS
- GIS
- SOM, COM
- eCare
- webShop
- etc.
Test Manager Mortgage Financing
Deutsche Bank AG
Parallel project – emergency cover. Structuring test case creation, review process through to test execution. Stream lead Test Manager in emergency cover. Team: 15 people.
- Took over test management during setup and structuring of the test case creation process through test start.
Tools used:
- MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
- HP-ALM (complete management including defect management, customizing, reporting etc.)
Test Manager / Interface Manager
umlaut Energy GmbH
Parallel project – emergency cover. Test management and coordination / interface management. Test Manager / Interface Manager. Team: 2 testers.
- Standardization of the existing IT test concept
- Test coordination
- Interface management
- Reporting
Tools used:
- MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
- Jira – user stories
- Confluence
Business Analyst, Process Consultant, Developer and Automator
Volkswagen Financial Services – Digital Solutions GmbH
ITSCM Process Management IT Operations (business analysis, development, test and process automation). Standardization of IT test concepts and development of test and process automation. Business Analyst, Process Consultant, Developer and Automator.
- Standardized IT test concepts
- Conducted market study to evaluate a suitable automation tool for standardizing test concepts
- Created milestone plan for the development process
- Built and developed new test and automation processes
- Structured the overall test process
- Restructured and rebuilt test plans in Micro Focus ALM
- Automated test plan and test case creation in Micro Focus ALM
- Automated test set creation in Micro Focus ALM
- Developed a wizard for automatic setup of the above automations
- Prepared recommendations for migrating data from Micro Focus ALM to XRay via Atlassian Jira
Tools used:
- MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
- Micro Focus ALM
- Atlassian Jira
- XRay
Development:
- VBA
Test Manager Sales & Services
Deutsche Bank AG
Built new target architecture. Stream lead Test Manager. Team: 6 people.
- Planned and designed organizational test specifications according to ISO 29119
- Created a test concept per ISO 29119 and the related test process
- Planned infrastructure for the test environment
- Created a test schedule
- Coordinated and ordered test data
- Coordinated decommissioning or relocation of various systems
Tools used:
- MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
- Jira – user stories
- Confluence
- HP-ALM (complete management including defect management, customizing, reporting etc.)
Development:
- Java
Test Manager Risk & Regulations
Santander Consumer Technology Services GmbH
Delivery of various projects in the “Risk & Regulations” area. Test Manager Risk & Regulations. Team: 12 people.
- Led multiple parallel subprojects on Capital Tools (Cargabal, Feeding Gaps, Days Past Due, Standard Engine, CAT – Credit Assessment Tool – plus four more), Segmentation 5 (BASEL), Obligation 5 and 16 (bond business)
- Coordinated all necessary business and technical processes to design a test strategy per ISO 29119 with business and IT
- Cycle planning for all projects with project management
- Planned load and performance tests considering timings, database availability, application availability, batch runs, and job chains
- Planned and coordinated test case creation using specification-based test design (ISO 29119) with IT and business
- Collected data needed for test planning and test case creation per the agreed structure-based test design
- Defined all test-case-based conditions and documented them in the test design specification
- Derived and documented test cases in test case specifications
- Planned and implemented test automation for mass tests and regression tests
- Planned and led test status meetings
- Monitored and controlled test execution, load & performance tests, and test automation
- SOAP web services testing (interface tests, data delivery, data validation)
- Created defects in test systems
- Logged incidents in production systems
- Test case qualification
- Verified test evidence
Tools used:
- MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project)
- GIT
- ServiceNow
- Remedy ITSM (application management, service management, defect & incident management, user management)
- Jira – user stories
- Confluence
- HP-ALM (complete management including defect management, customizing, reporting etc.)
- Jenkins
- HP LoadRunner
- HP UFT for test automation
Development:
- C#
- Java
- JSP
Global Test Manager (SCRUM)
Deutsche Bank AG – Wealth Management
Introduction, customizing, and rollout of the CRM and sales platform “Salesforce”. Global Test Manager (Germany / Switzerland / India). Team: 10 people.
- Coordinated processes to design a global test strategy per ISO 29119 across three subprojects
- Analyzed structural requirements and conditions of the three subprojects
- Aligned functional requirements with business teams and ensured quality via smoke tests
- Synchronized resource planning with global project management
- Assigned work packages like topic-based test case creation to available resources
- Analyzed and gathered functional requirements from stakeholders and ensured acceptance criteria
- Documented functional requirements in Word and user stories in Jira
- Held alignment meetings with developers about release content
- Coordinated with Scrum Masters for sprint content and schedules across subprojects
- Aligned interfaces with environment managers and Scrum Masters
- Regular participation in Scrum meetings
- Created test plan covering all phases: system integration, acceptance, regression, and rehearsals
- Risk analysis and documentation of mitigation approaches
- Developed and implemented escalation plan
- Conducted smoke tests on a separate environment for documented functional requirements
- SOAP web service tests for interfaces feeding content management systems (data delivery, validation)
- Planned and monitored load & performance tests considering database, application, and admin availability
- Collected data for test planning, test case creation, regression test planning, selection, execution, and automation
- Introduced and implemented regression test automation: feasibility study, tool analysis, coordination with automation developers, selection of regression test cases, setup management, scripting
- Created Jira dashboards and Confluence documentation
- Prepared and moderated test management reporting
- Developed governance reporting focusing on test management
- Produced test reports including defect and incident reporting
- Joined global test management status calls, partly moderating
- Conducted workshops
Tools used:
- ServiceNow
- MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project)
- Jira – user stories
- Confluence
- GIT – version control
- HP-ALM (complete management including defect management, customizing, reporting etc.)
- HP LoadRunner
- HP UFT
- Selenium
Test Management Stream Lead
Fidelity Information Services GmbH
Test management with 10 team members. Connecting a bank to the Core24 core banking system. Stream lead Test Manager. Team: 10 people.
- Aligned processes to design a test strategy per ISO 29119
- Analyzed existing banking interfaces
- Coordinated with the Migration stream on migration steps and test cases, securing dates for data migrations and drops
- Coordinated with the Development stream on modules and interfaces to be built and obtained schedules
- Coordinated with the Architecture stream on ordered hardware status and installation progress, gathering architecture diagrams
- Aligned securities management connectivity with online integration interfaces in system integration environments
- Established test case categories for online trading interfaces
- Gathered data delivered via RESTful web services to connected systems
- Aligned RESTful interface coverage
- Mapped test case categories for RESTful tests
- Created test cases by the test team
- Monitored load and performance tests
- Conducted further alignments with other streams to gather data for the test strategy
- Obtained stakeholder approval for all topics
- Documented and aligned functional requirements in Jira
- Performed smoke tests on a separate environment for technical requirements
- Created a test plan covering all phases: component, system, system integration, acceptance, rehearsals
- Management reporting
- Workshops, presentations, and meeting moderation
Tools used:
- MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project)
- GIT – version control
- Jira and Confluence
- Jenkins – automation server
- HP-ALM
- HP LoadRunner
SAP Test Manager - Business Simulations / Incident Manager
Thyssenkrupp Steel Europe GmbH
Test management, data and process harmonization. SAP Test Manager - Business Simulations / Incident Manager. Team: approx. 15 people.
- Planned, coordinated, and managed internal business test preparations
- Planned and managed test resources
- Managed all technical and functional SAP and satellite system requirements for setup
- Coordinated SAP business simulations
- Created and led kick-off presentation and sessions
- Prepared Kanban boards and mapped structured assembly processes
- Developed test plan in coordination with SAP stream leads
- Scheduled test runs in collaboration with the cutover team
- Managed overall flow of business simulations
- Created test cases for production processes in HP-ALM
- Created test sets and compiled test cases into sets in HP-ALM
- Incident and defect management (SAP CORE) with technical support in the team
Used SAP modules for business simulations and test cycles:
- ML – Material Ledger
- RTR-FI – Record to Report – FI
- RTR-CO – Record to Report – CO
- PTP – Purchase to Pay
- TRA – Transportation
- OTC – Order to Cash
- PD – Personal Development
- MTC – Maintenance
- PP – Product Planning
Tools used:
- SAP Solution Manager (test management, incident management, defect management, change request management, data analysis, reporting)
- MS Office (Excel, Access, Outlook, PowerPoint)
- HP-ALM (formerly HP Quality Center)
Test Manager
SUMITS Deutschland GmbH
Test management for SAP Solution Manager release upgrade. Test Manager. Team: approx. 25 people.
- Created test plan
- Developed test strategy
- Prepared and conducted workshops
- Presented and aligned test plan with QA lead
- Maintained Kanban board
- Scheduled change requests and associated test cases
- Analyzed test cases
- Defined test data
- Conducted workshops
- Documented test cases
- Developed test guide
- Created test cases
- Coordinated tests
- Daily test reporting
- Incident and defect management and reporting
- Change request reporting
- Test status reporting
- Liaison to subprojects
- Customer interface
- Incident data analysis and cleanup
In this SAP project for a Solution Manager release upgrade, all SAP modules had to be retested to ensure a complete, error-free production process. Business areas provided production-like test cases, combined into a full test framework and broken down into test cycles.
Tools used:
- SAP Solution Manager (test management, incident management, defect management, change request management, data analysis, reporting)
- MS Office (Excel, Access, Outlook, PowerPoint)
PMO Support / Test Manager
Fidelity Information Services KORDOBA
PMO support, test management – private banking. Migration of retail and corporate banking of a German bank. PMO Support / Test Manager. Team: 10 people.
PMO support:
- Project definition
- Created project plan
- Project coordination and controlling
- Assembled work packages
- Developed project briefs for subprojects
- Conducted market study to evaluate a new test management system
- Time management
Test Manager tasks (led approx. 20 people):
- Developed test strategy
- Created environment plan
- Created test plan
- Planned and monitored load & performance tests
- Incident management
- Test case analysis (retail, corporate banking, securities management, trading platform)
- Test case creation (same areas)
- Created migration test cases using ETL method
- Scheduled and monitored load & performance tests
- Test coordination
- Daily test reporting
- Liaison to subprojects and customer
Tools used:
- HP-ALM (Quality Center)
- HP LoadRunner
- ASSYST – service management (incident, problem management)
- HOST
- GIT
- MS Office (Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel etc.)
Test Manager / Business Tester
Fidelity Information Services KORDOBA
Test management support, private banking. Introduction of overnight and fixed-term deposit products for an auto bank. Test Manager / Business Tester.
- Test coordination
- Test planning
- Daily test reporting
- Liaison to subprojects
- Test case analysis
- Test case creation
- Test execution
- Module testing
- System integration testing
- Load & performance test execution and monitoring
- User acceptance testing
Tools used:
- ASSYST – service management (incident, problem management)
- HOST
- GIT
- MS Office (Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel etc.)
Business Analyst / Business Tester
Fiducia IT AG
Business Analyst / test management support, private banking. SEPA implementation for cooperative banks. Business Analyst, Business Tester.
- Data and information gathering
- Data analysis and structuring from the DWH
- Requirements definition and documentation
- Validation with business partners
- Functional documentation and validation
- Test design
- Test case analysis
- Test case creation
- Test execution
- Test reporting
- Test planning
- Test coordination
- Module testing
- System integration testing
- User acceptance testing
Application: Agree BAP (bank workplace). Tools:
- Lotus Notes
- MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
- SQL Developer
- TOAD
- HOST
- Internet Explorer
- Java WebStart
Business Analyst, Coach, Tester
Barclaycard
Test management support, private banking. Implementation of card business application. Business Analyst, Coach, Tester.
- Information and data gathering
- Business requirements elicitation
- Conceptual design and validation
- Coaching several team members
- Test case creation
- Test execution
- Test planning
- Test coordination
Application: BANCOS (banking application by G&H AG, Berlin). Tools:
- MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access)
- Internet Explorer
- Java WebStart
- Jenkins
Business Analyst, Tester
Postbank Systems AG
Test management support. Data delivery. Business Analyst, Tester.
- Information and data gathering
- Business requirements elicitation
- Download and analysis of data structures from the DWH
- Conceptual design and validation
- Test case creation
- Testing
- Test planning
- Test coordination
Tools:
- SAP Solution Manager
- MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access)
- TOAD
- HOST
- Internet Explorer
Business Analyst / Developer
Commerzbank AG
SAP Finance – EC-CS.
- Enhanced and adapted in-house Active-Excel accounting workbooks linked to SAP EC-CS.
- Tested modules, interface functionality, and integration.
- Created test concepts
- Managed derivative financial instruments/products
- Change/issue/release management
Tools:
- SQL Developer
- MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access)
Business Analyst
UniCredit Leasing
AIRBA implementation. Business Analyst.
- Implemented advanced IRB approach
- Business analysis
- Elicited business requirements
- Information and data gathering
- Conceptual design and validation
- Coordinated and moderated meetings
- Created presentations
Tools:
- MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access)
Business Analyst, Coach
UniCredit Leasing
AIRBA implementation. Created an A-IRBA compliant IT guideline. Business Analyst, Coach.
- Developed an A-IRBA compliant IT guideline as reference and support for designing A-IRBA compliant IT concepts
- Coached the entire business and IT team
Tools:
- MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access)
Business Analyst, Consultant
KfW
Financial and funding controlling / liquidity planning. Enhanced the liquidity plan. Business Analyst, Consultant.
- Gathered data from the bank’s DWH using SQL scripts for aggregation and analysis with SAS Enterprise
- Optimized and redesigned liquidity and repayment plans based on DWH data and business requirements
- Translated business requirements into a general concept for IT implementation
- Liquidity controlling
- Supported creation of high-level and detailed liquidity plan concepts
- Produced cash-flow analyses for KfW business units, especially “Financial and Funding Controlling” and subsidiary “IPEX” using aggregated DWH data
- Consulted KfW business units on lending and funding business
- Planned, organized, and moderated meetings for the “Liquidity Plan” project
- Business process management
- IT consulting (SQL, database management, administration, programming)
Tools:
- Lotus Notes
- SAS Enterprise
- HOST
- MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access)
Business Analyst / Developer / Consultant
Commerzbank AG
Market risk controlling / Charisma. Developed a database-driven reporting application. Business Analyst / Developer / Consultant.
- Business analysis and data gathering of market risk data
- Analyzed and aggregated data with self-developed SQL scripts
- Enhanced an MS Access-based analysis tool using VBA/SQL
- Developed ad-hoc, sensitivity, backtest, and market risk analyses
Tools:
- MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access)
Business Analyst, Developer
Steria Mummert Consulting AG
RFI-Framework. Developed a benchmarking tool for product selection and evaluation. Business Analyst, Developer.
- Information and data gathering
- Business requirements elicitation
- Conceptual design and validation
- Created presentations
- Coordinated meetings and moderation
- Developed an RFI framework with an MS Excel front end to capture project details and automatically generate question catalogs. Chart analysis and export to PowerPoint are standard.
Tools:
- MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access)
Business Analyst, Consultant
CACEIS Bank
Mass payment processing. Built mass payment system. Business Analyst, Consultant.
- Information and data gathering
- Business requirements elicitation
- Conceptual design and validation
- Created presentations
- Coordinated meetings and moderation
- Planned and built mass payment infrastructure
- Technical support for infrastructure questions
- Developed HOST applications for data feed
- User administration, user management, and support
- Assisted in test management
Tools:
- HOST
- Lotus Notes
- MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access)
Business Analyst, Developer
Postbank AG
Regulatory reporting. Enhanced internal reporting system. Business Analyst, Developer.
- Information and data gathering
- Business requirements elicitation
- Conceptual design and validation
- Created presentations
- Coordinated meetings and moderation
- Enhanced interim MS Access/SQL solution for generating regulatory reports for Postbank and BaFin
- Added administration, archiving, and history features
Tools:
- MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access)
Business Analyst, Developer
Dresdner Bank AG
Expanded reporting in sales controlling. Business Analyst, Developer.
- Information and data gathering
- Business requirements elicitation
- Conceptual design and validation
- Created presentations
- Coordinated meetings and moderation
- Expanded internal sales controlling reports to include bank-wide insurance and sales metrics via automated report generation
- Developed a user manual
- Captured client requirements
Tools:
- Lotus Notes
- TOAD
- SAS Enterprise
- MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access)
Test Manager / Tester
Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM)
Validation of a web-based document management system. Introduced a file management system. Test Manager / Tester.
- Test management
- Test coordination
- Test execution
- Test planning
- Test concept creation
- Test case creation
Tools:
- HP Quality Center
- MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access)
Test Manager
WestLB AG
Rating database. Developed an internal rating database. Test Manager.
- Test management
- Test coordination
- Test execution
- Test planning
- Test concept creation
- Test case creation
Tools:
- MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access)
- Uva.
Risk Analyst
WestLB AG
Credit risk management. Developed and enhanced credit portfolios. Risk Analyst.
- Developed an MS Access application to produce credit portfolio reports focusing on country, industry, and group concentrations for credit and portfolio management
- Business analysis for client-specific data to create functional designs
- Gathered client data for functional design
Tools:
- MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access)
- SAS Enterprise
Risk Analyst
WestLB AG
Integration support and production. International user administration and support in the entire bank. Server support for Windows and Linux, ensuring functionality and backup of Oracle databases. Ensured overall bank application landscape functionality with manual client support and administration. Technical support for software and hardware. Maintained dedicated lines and data feeds to Reuters servers and other external providers. Service areas:
- IT Risk Management (international)
- Data management (international)
- User support (international)
- Server administration
- Client administration (international)
- Hardware support
- Application support (international)
Tools:
- SQL Developer
- Oracle Designer
- Oracle Administrator
- MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access)
- Uva.
Developer
WestAM – Kapitalanlagegesellschaft mbH
Developed an asset reporting database. Developer.
- Developed an MS Access application to enhance internal asset reporting
- Test case creation
- Test coordination and planning
- Test management
- Test execution
- Created user manuals
Tools:
- MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access)
- Uva.
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