Steffen Schwarz

Senior Tester (remote)

Igersheim, Germany
Experience
Mar 2023 - Present
2 years 5 months
Remote

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 months
Remote

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 months
Remote

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 year

Sabbatical

Corona break

Jan 2018 - Jul 2020
2 years 7 months
Bonn, 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 months
Weiden 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 months
Vienna, 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 months
Bonn, 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 month
Bonn, 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 months
Neckarsulm, 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 months
Rüsselsheim, 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 month
Bonn, 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 months
Bonn, 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 months
Bonn, 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 months
Leverkusen, 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 year
Bonn, 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 years
Würzburg, 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 year
Würzburg, 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 months
Hanau, Germany

Study Project

Fa. Weco

File transfer between IBM System/36 and Novell NetWare

Feb 1992 - Jun 1992
5 months
Würzburg, Germany

2nd Semester Internship

Ebbinghaus-Team GmbH

DWH and data dictionary development with POWERFLEX-4GL

Jan 1991 - Dec 1993
3 years
Würzburg, 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 months
Munich, Germany

1st Semester Internship

SOBA EDV Beratung GmbH

IBM AS/400 OS/400 with RPG III WMS

Jun 1987 - Oct 1988
1 year 5 months
Boxberg, Germany

Clerk (Accounts Receivable)

Fa. Hofmann Menü

Accounts receivable bookkeeping

Apr 1984 - Mar 1986
2 years
Niederstetten, Germany

Service Member (Data Processing)

Bundeswehr

Data processing

Languages
German
Native
French
Advanced
English
Intermediate
Spanish
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

...and 2 more
Certifications & licenses

INTEC-Interconnect V7.1

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