Test Consultant

• Take over operational acceptance tests for internal and external applications in a pre-production environment
• Plan and carry out operational approvals of new services and applications based on load requirements and service levels
• Create test plans and automated tests to support the approvals
• Monitor the systems during acceptance tests, analyze logs, and produce acceptance artifacts (test reports, monitoring charts, acceptance docs, approvals)
• Support rollouts of security and application patches as well as OS upgrades in pre-production
• Perform load and performance tests, including failover and rollback tests across data centers
• Test SOAP and REST APIs (JMeter, Grafana, Kibana)
• Run batch tests with Bash and analyze logs
• Conduct load and performance tests of in-house applications
• Develop and maintain JMeter tests, PyTest scripts, and Bash scripts
• Execute manual cross-system tests and coordinate external service providers

Tools and technologies used:

• OpenShift 3/4
• Kibana, Grafana
• JMeter, PyTest, Ansible
• vSphere, Portainer
• Jira, Confluence
• Bash scripting

• Integrate test results from various frameworks (JUnit, Cucumber, Serenity) and CI toolchains (Jenkins, GitLab CI with Gradle)
• Build visualizations and organize in Jira/Xray (test executions, test plans, dashboards)
• Documentation and reporting

Tools and techniques used:

• VirtualBox VMs
• Jira, Confluence
• Git, GitLab
• Jenkins with Groovy pipelines
• Gradle Tasks Plugin
• IntelliJ IDEA, cURL

Methods:

• Scrum

• Set up the system environment for automated tests in e-commerce, tourism, and aviation
• CI/CD for tests with Jenkins and agents on physical and virtual machines (Windows, macOS, Linux)
• Plan the script architecture (page objects, test data, multilingual support)
• Develop a codebase for different browsers and languages
• Integrate tests and results into TestRail; build TestRail tools via API
• Functional end-to-end tests for Adobe AEM CMS components
• Provide test data via REST API and Node.js, access MSSQL with Node.js
• XML transformation with XSLT

Tools and techniques used:

• Selenium WebDriver, WebdriverIO
• Node.js, npm, Jasmine, Vagrant, VirtualBox
• Mercurial (HG) and GitLab
• Jenkins (matrix, Groovy), Adobe AEM, DBeaver, yEd

Methods:

• Scrum

• Plan and integrate the test process into CI with Jenkins and Selenium WebDriver for desktop and mobile
• Set up a test server environment with Jenkins slaves on Linux
• Develop the test scripting architecture (page objects, data objects)
• Write tests with PHP (Facebook WebDriver) and JS (Protractor)
• Integrate into Testlink and maintain documentation
• Provide manual QA support during go-live on desktop and mobile

Tools and techniques used:

• Selenium WebDriver, Protractor, Composer
• Vagrant, VirtualBox, Docker
• Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Testlink, Jenkins

• Manual and regression tests for a new SOAP interface, including post-live tests and error analysis
• Enhance an energy sales portal with features and third-party interfaces

• Manual acceptance and regression tests for an energy sales portal
• Extend the portal (sales control, provisioning)

• Founded and led PROSEQUM GmbH, handling management, development, consulting, and coaching in test management and test automation

• Uniface presentations and consulting on VAX VMS, Ultrix, Sinix, RS 6000/AIX, DOS/Windows, Sun Sparc Solaris

• Developed an internal knowledge base application and documentation for ISDN terminal adapters
• Administered heterogeneous networks (TCP/IP, Novell, Mac, Sun workstations)