Steffen Schwarz
Senior Tester (remote)
Experience
Mar 2023 - Present
2 years 5 monthsRemote
Senior Tester (remote)
Deutsche Bundesbahn
AC track
- Creation, automation and execution of regression tests
- Manual, automated, load and performance test execution
Technologies used:
- Micro Focus Silk Central Test Management Tool
- AWS Workspace
- Kubernetes
- Postman
- OPENLens
- GitLab
- CI/CD
- SharePoint
- Confluence
- Jira
- PostgreSQL
- Oracle
- SQL
- SAFe
Apr 2022 - Dec 2022
9 monthsRemote
Senior Tester (remote)
Deutsche Bundesbank
National payment systems
- Regression tests
- Migration tests
- Problem management
- Test case creation and execution
Technologies used:
- SQS-Test Professional
- Box
- Jira
- SWIFT
Sep 2021 - Dec 2021
4 monthsRemote
Senior Functional Tester (remote)
ITZ-Bund via Accenture
Vehicle tax
- Created a SOAPUI test suite for microservice automation
- Provided and generated test data for microservices tests via SOAPUI
- Wrote business test cases and aligned test strategy
Technologies used:
- SOAPUI
- HP ALM
- Jira
- UC4
- SQL Developer
- PuTTY
- WinSCP
Aug 2020 - Jul 2021
1 yearSabbatical
Corona break
Jan 2018 - Jul 2020
2 years 7 monthsBonn, Germany
Senior Software Test Analyst/Agile Tester
Deutsche Telekom
Service oriented testing for Carmen Common Offer System (CCOS/CRM)
- Wrote test cases in HPQC based on requirements (Agile, partly solution-based)
- Manual testing with SOAPUI, frontend and backend
- Test coordination with teams in India and Hungary
- Set up and maintenance of test environments (data provisioning and import)
- Participated in sprint planning, review, refinement and PO demos
- Defect management and retest with Jira
- Process testing
- Interaction with business – story reviews, problem management
- Project language English/German
Technologies used:
- SOAPUI
- SOA Backplane
- REST API
- XML
- WSDL
- HPQC
- UNIX
- Jira
- Oracle 12c
- SQL
- SQL Developer
- SharePoint
- Confluence
- CCOS expert system (Java)
Mar 2016 - Oct 2017
1 year 8 monthsWeiden in der Oberpfalz, Germany
Agile Senior Software Test Analyst/PL/SQL Tester
Witt-Gruppe Weiden (Otto Group)
Host migration of a merchandise management system
- Analyzed user stories and derived test cases
- Created test cases in Jira/Zephyr
- Automated and reviewed test cases
- Executed tests (FRT, sprints)
- Daily sprint meetings, weekly analysis with architects and developers
- Test lead for customer booking and dunning domain
- Test management reporting
- Defect management, ticket creation and retesting
- End-to-end testing
- Backend and frontend testing
Technologies used:
- Jira
- Zephyr
- Oracle 12c
- PL/SQL
- Java
- SharePoint
- TOAD
- Confluence
Nov 2015 - Feb 2016
4 monthsVienna, Austria
LTE Engineer, IREG Test
T-Mobile Austria
LTE international roaming (adding new roaming partners) similar to project from 04/2015 to 11/2015
Apr 2015 - Nov 2015
8 monthsBonn, Germany
LTE Engineer, IREG Test
Deutsche Telekom AG
LTE international roaming for eCall automotive project
- Technical connection setup (including system and E2E testing) to new LTE roaming operators
- Executed LTE roaming tests with partners using defined protocols
- Troubleshooting and tracing E2E call flows in mobile networks (E-UTRAN, LTE, UMTS, GSM)
- IP (Diameter, etc.) and SS7 protocol analysis
- System and E2E call flow analysis and documentation
- Organized and reported LTE tests for DTAG’s large clients
- Mobile testing, M2M, IREG, TADIG
Technologies used:
- Netscout
- Daromo
- Diameter
- SS7
- S6a/S8
- MS Office
- Citrix
- NSN HLR
- DNS
- Wireshark
- Polystar OSS
- HSS
- F5 DEA/DRA
- Huawei MME
- BMC Remedy (ITSM)
- @vantage Commander NSN OAM Control Center V11
- Huawei Operations
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
1 monthBonn, Germany
Test Manager
Deutsche Post IT Brief GmbH
Test manager for new requirements in tracking portals
- Delivered tracking portal for private and business customers
- Quality assurance per ISTQB, reviewed requirements and derived test scenarios
- Created acceptance criteria and test concept (environment, design methods, scope, metrics)
- Wrote test cases in HP-ALM
- Executed functional and technical tests
- Smoke, integration, black box and exploratory tests
- Cross-browser testing of portal features
- Technical analysis of defects and impacts
- Defect tracking and analysis, retesting
- Communication with software vendors
- Test data provisioning and generation (XML events)
- Automated tests with TOSCA Testsuite
Technologies used:
- Teradata DBMS
- Java Servlets (Struts)
- SOAP/Webservices
- MQ
- Apache Tomcat
Tools:
- Git
- HP-ALM
- DASS (webservices test tool)
Oct 2013 - Dec 2014
1 year 3 monthsNeckarsulm, Germany
Oracle Consultant/IT Support International
LIDL Stiftung & Co. KG
DB and application support, tested web application frontend (JavaScript) in Agile
- 2nd level support for international customers (Europe-wide)
- PL/SQL scripts and procedures, SQL queries, test catalogs
- Created specs and change requests
- Tested DB packages and JavaScript GUI
- DB optimizations, performance improvements
Technologies used:
- Windows Server 2008
- Oracle 11g
- Jira
- PL/SQL
- SQL
- LANDesk Service Desk
- Omada Identity Suite
- Grid Control
- Nagios
Jan 2013 - Sep 2013
9 monthsRüsselsheim, Germany
Software Tester
Syniverse Technologies
Mass regression tests for RAEX rating in Agile migration
- Compared production rates with migrated XML-RAEX
- Defect analysis and tracking
- Created test CDRs, plans and requirement matrix in HPQC
- Automated tests (shell and SQL scripts)
- Requirements analysis
Technologies used:
- Sun Solaris
- Oracle
- Altova XMLSpy
- RAEX
- XML/XLS transformation
- TRAC
- BMC Remedy
- HPQC ALM
- SwiftALM
- C++
Jan 2004 - Jan 2012
8 years 1 monthBonn, Germany
Test Manager/Software Tester
T-Mobile
Test management and coordination for partner billing in Carmen project
- Wrote test concept, system and integration tests, plans and cases
- Executed tests and automated with shell, Perl and SQL scripts
- Load and performance tests with daily production loads and custom scripts
- Environment coordination, defect management and reporting
- End-to-end and interface tests (SAP DWH, mediation)
- Acceptance tests with business teams
- Test data creation and anonymization in ASN.1 (TAP) format
Projects included ROSE (GSM-Roaming rating), cInterconnect, WLAN roaming, AroamA billing tool
Technologies used:
- ClearCase/ClearQuest/ClearDDTS
- CVS
- Rational TestManager/Mercury TestDirector/HPQC
- ASN.1, TTT, TAP
- Oracle V.x–11.x
- Java, C++, bash, Perl
- UNIX (Solaris, HPUX, Linux, Tru64)
- Crystal Reports
- Siemens IPSL Simulator
- EDIFACT, INTEC Interconnect V7.1
- Custom TAP tools
- SQL, PL/SQL
Sep 2001 - Dec 2003
2 years 4 monthsBonn, Germany
Product Manager
T-Mobile
Project coordination for interconnection rating and billing
- Business analysis, system architecture design, specs
- Feasibility studies, project organization, requirements analysis
- Coordinated dev, QA, business and ops
- Change management, monitoring revenue assurance (Perl)
- Wrote user and ops manuals
Technologies used:
- MS Project/Office
- Perl, shell scripts
- Oracle, SQL
- UNIX
May 2000 - Aug 2001
1 year 4 monthsBonn, Germany
Software Tester
T-Mobile
System and integration tests, test plan and case creation
Projects BAPSI (voice/data interconnect billing) and ZTS (central phone check server)
Technologies used:
- Digital Unix server
- Oracle 8.1.7
- C++, Java, Perl
- 3-tier client/server
- Windows NT client
- Netscape iPlanet Webserver
Jan 1999 - Mar 2000
1 year 3 monthsLeverkusen, Germany
Second Level Support HP-UX/Oracle
Bayer
Supported ~120 HP-UX production servers with Oracle DBs
- OS, DB and app installations, updates and patches
- Error analysis and fixes, production support
- Peripheral setup and DB admin with IBM host integration
Technologies used:
- HP-UX
- Oracle 8.x/9.x
- Shell scripts, Perl, SQL
Jan 1998 - Dec 1998
1 yearBonn, Germany
Test Environment Manager
Postbank Data
Test lab admin, support and development for telephone banking call center DB
- Coordinated test systems and file system maintenance
- Process control, user/crash management, issue coordination
- Config data for disk management (Oracle, EMC)
- Setup and doc of test/dev environments
- Oracle V7.3/8 installs, DB support and maintenance, data model upkeep, SQL-Net
- Backup DB maintenance and docs
- CORBA server admin with Visigenic Visbroker
- Live data import automation and patch deployment
Technologies used:
- HP 9000, HP-UX
- SQL, shell scripts
- Visigenic Visbroker, CORBA
- EMC
- Oracle V7.3/V8.0
Jan 1996 - Dec 1997
2 yearsWürzburg, Germany
Test Manager
Ebbinghaus Team GmbH
Designed and developed projects: home worker management, WMS, agricultural management, print and transaction servers, accounting, warehouse, program generator and data dictionary
Technologies used:
- 4GL POWERFLEX Btrieve on Win for Workgroups, Win95/NT, Novell 3.11-4.1
Jan 1995 - Dec 1995
1 yearWürzburg, Germany
Thesis
Westernacher EDV-Beratung GmbH
Project PUZ for ABB: DB design and embedded SQL data access
- Ported personnel/time system from COBOL-ISAM/MS-DOS to ESQL on Oracle RDBMS V7/AIX
- Cobol source migration from DOS to AIX 4.2, AIX and Oracle installation
Technologies used:
- COBOL-ISAM, MS-DOS
- Embedded SQL for COBOL
- Oracle RDBMS V7, AIX 4.2 on IBM RISC
Mar 1993 - Sep 1993
7 monthsHanau, Germany
Study Project
Fa. Weco
File transfer between IBM System/36 and Novell NetWare
Feb 1992 - Jun 1992
5 monthsWürzburg, Germany
2nd Semester Internship
Ebbinghaus-Team GmbH
DWH and data dictionary development with POWERFLEX-4GL
Jan 1991 - Dec 1993
3 yearsWürzburg, Germany
Developer
Fa. Ebbinghaus Team GmbH
Concept and development at Ebbinghaus Team GmbH, Würzburg (see above)
Technologies used:
- 4GL POWERFLEX Btrieve on WfW, Win95/NT, Novell 3.11-4.1
Aug 1989 - Oct 1989
3 monthsMunich, Germany
1st Semester Internship
SOBA EDV Beratung GmbH
IBM AS/400 OS/400 with RPG III WMS
Jun 1987 - Oct 1988
1 year 5 monthsBoxberg, Germany
Clerk (Accounts Receivable)
Fa. Hofmann Menü
Accounts receivable bookkeeping
Apr 1984 - Mar 1986
2 yearsNiederstetten, Germany
Service Member (Data Processing)
Bundeswehr
Data processing
Languages
German
NativeFrench
AdvancedEnglish
IntermediateSpanish
Intermediate Education
Oct 1988 - Oct 1995
Fachhochschule Würzburg
Diploma in Computer Science and Business · Computer Science · Würzburg, Germany
Oct 1986 - Jun 1987
Fachoberschule Bad Mergentheim
Technical High School Diploma · Business Administration · Bad Mergentheim, Germany
Sep 1980 - Jul 1983
Kaufmännische Berufsschule Bad Mergentheim
Office Management Certificate · Bad Mergentheim, Germany
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Certifications & licenses
INTEC-Interconnect V7.1
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