Steffen S.

Senior Tester (remote)

Igersheim, Germany

Experience

Mar 2023 - Present
2 years 8 months
Remote

Senior Tester (remote)

Deutsche Bundesbahn

AC-Trasse

  • Creation, automation and execution of regression tests
  • Execution of manual, automated, as well as load and performance tests

Technologies used:

  • Micro Focus Silk Central Testmanagement Tool
  • AWS Workspace
  • Kubernetes
  • Postman
  • OPENLens
  • Gitlab
  • CI/CD
  • sharepoint
  • confluence
  • jira
  • Postgre
  • 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 über Accenture

Vehicle tax

  • Creating a SOAPUI test suite for automating tests of microservices
  • Providing or generating test data for testing the microservices via SOAPui
  • Creating the business-oriented test cases and aligning the test strategy

Technologies used:

  • SOAPui
  • HPALM
  • 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 Carmen Common Offer System (CCOS) / CRM)

  • Creating test cases (HPQC) based on requirements (in the Agile process, partly solution-based)
  • Manual testing with SOAPui, frontend and backend
  • Test coordination with the Indian and Hungarian test and development teams
  • Setup and maintenance of test environments (test data provisioning and import)
  • Participation in sprint planning and review, refinement, product owner presentations
  • Defect management / retesting with Jira
  • Process testing
  • Interaction with the business unit – 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

  • User story analysis and deriving test cases
  • Creating test cases in Jira/Zephyr
  • Automating the test cases
  • Reviewing test cases
  • Executing test cases (FRT, sprints)
  • Daily sprint meetings, weekly analysis with architects and developers
  • Test lead for customer, customer booking and dunning
  • Test management reporting
  • Defect management, creating bug tickets and retesting
  • End-to-end testing
  • Backend and frontend testing

Technologies used:

  • Jira
  • Zephyr
  • Oracle 12c
  • PLSQL
  • Java
  • SharePoint
  • TOAD
  • Confluence
Nov 2015 - Feb 2016
4 months
Vienna, Austria

LTE Engineer, IREG Test

T-Mobile Austria

LTE International Roaming (adding more international roaming partners). Otherwise same as the 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)

  • Setting up technical connections (incl. system and E2E testing) to new international LTE roaming operators
  • Performing LTE roaming tests (based on a defined test protocol) with international roaming partners
  • Troubleshooting and tracing E2E call flows in a mobile network (E-UTRAN, LTE, UMTS, GSM)
  • IP (Diameter, etc.) and SS7 protocol analyses
  • System and E2E call flow analysis and documentation
  • Organizing, coordinating and status reporting of LTE tests for DTAG's major customers
  • 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
  • F5 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 rolling out new requirements for tracking portals

  • Providing a tracking portal for private and business customers
  • Quality assurance of tracking portals according to ISTQB, reviewing all requirements and deriving test scenarios
  • Creating acceptance criteria and test concept (test environment, test design techniques, scope, metrics)
  • Creating test cases in HP-ALM
  • Executing functional and technical test cases
  • Smoke tests, integration tests, black box tests, exploratory tests
  • Testing website functionality on different browsers
  • Technical analysis of error states and error impacts
  • Error tracking and analysis
  • Retesting defects
  • Communication with software vendors
  • Test data provisioning, test data generation (XML events)
  • Automated test execution with TOSCA Testsuite

Technologies used:

  • Teradata DBMS
  • Java (Servlets) (Struts framework)
  • SOAP
  • Web services
  • MQ
  • Apache (Tomcat)

Tools used:

  • GIT
  • HP-ALM
  • DASS (web services test tool)
Oct 2013 - Dec 2014
1 year 3 months
Neckarsulm, Germany

Oracle Consultant / International IT Support

LIDL Stiftung & Co. KG

DB and application support, testing web application frontend (JavaScript) in an agile environment, specification for central Europe-wide building management system, automated consumption data collection and evaluation from network-connected embedded Linux boxes.

  • 2nd level support for international customers (Europe-wide country and branch support)
  • PL/SQL scripts and procedures, SQL queries, test case catalogs
  • Creating specifications and change requests
  • Performing software tests (DB packages, JavaScript web application GUI)
  • Database optimizations
  • Creating procedures and objects for performance improvement

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

Bulk regression testing of RAEX rating in an agile environment (migration), comparing and checking production rates with the migrated XML-RAEX rating

  • Error analysis
  • Creating test CDRs
  • Defect tracking
  • Test automation (shell script - SQL)
  • Requirements analysis
  • Test case design and test planning
  • Requirement matrix in HP Quality Center

Technologies used:

  • Sun Solaris
  • Oracle
  • Altova XML-Spy
  • RAEX
  • XML
  • XLS transformation
  • TRAC
  • BMC Remedy
  • HPQC ALM
  • SWIFTALM (defect/test management)
  • C++
Jan 2004 - Jan 2012
8 years 1 month
Bonn, Germany

Test manager, Software tester

T-Mobile

Test management and coordination in partner billing for the Carmen project (Customer Administration, Relationship Management & eCare Network – CRM)

  • Test concept creation
  • Executing system and integration tests
  • Creating test cases and test plans
  • Executing tests
  • Test automation (shell script, Perl, SQL) at the server batch level using custom tools for expected-actual comparison
  • Load and performance testing by loading daily production data, manual result comparison using custom SQL/script tools, measuring process deviations and throughput, and monitoring database performance
  • Coordinating test environments
  • Defect management
  • Reporting (communication with project management, development, and partner systems)
  • Conducting end-to-end tests
  • Interface testing (SAP DWH, etc.)
  • Conducting acceptance tests with the business side
  • Test coordination with billing mediation device, clearinghouse, and customer billing system
  • Creating test case catalogs
  • Generating and anonymizing test data in ASN.1 format (TAP-Structure 3.x)
  • Creating use cases and test cases

For the following projects:

  • Project ROSE – GSM roaming and interconnection billing system (Rating of GSM, GPRS, UMTS, LTE, MMS, SMS)
  • Project cInterconnect – quality assurance for INTEC's ICT product, interconnect billing for T-Mobile Czech Republic and England (standard billing system)
  • Project WLAN – quality assurance for WLAN billing in an international roaming environment (WRIX)
  • Project AroamA – quality assurance for a billing verification tool in a roaming environment (web application on Linux, Oracle DB, and mediation)
  • Executing system and integration tests for projects: PLK price list conversion, JULIA invoice control, FREEMOVE closed user group repository, PRT permanent regression test

Technologies used:

  • Clearcase
  • Clearquest
  • ClearDDTS
  • cvs
  • Rational Testmanager
  • Mercury Test Director
  • HP Quality Center
  • ASN.1
  • TTT
  • ORACLE V.x-V11.x
  • Java
  • C++
  • bash
  • perl
  • UNIX
  • Solaris
  • HPUX
  • LINUX
  • Compaq Tru64 Unix
  • Crystal Report
  • Siemens IPSL-Simulator
  • EDIFACT
  • INTEC-Interconnect V7.1
  • TapTestingTool
  • TaPir
  • TAP
  • ASN.1
  • Roaming
  • SQL
  • PL-SQL
Sep 2001 - Dec 2003
2 years 4 months
Bonn, Germany

Product Manager

T-Mobile

Project coordination – interconnection rating and billing analysis

  • Business analysis of rating and billing
  • System architecture design
  • Functional and IT concept design
  • Specification
  • Feasibility studies
  • Project organization
  • Requirements analysis
  • Coordination of development, QA, business side, and operations
  • Operational change management
  • Developing monitoring for revenue assurance (Perl)
  • Creating user and operations manuals

Technologies used:

  • MS-Project
  • MS-Office
  • perl
  • shell script
  • ORACLE
  • SQL
  • UNIX
May 2000 - Aug 2001
1 year 4 months
Bonn, Germany

Software Tester

T-Mobile

  • Executing system and integration tests
  • Creating test plans and test cases

Project BAPSI – interconnection billing system (voice and data) Project ZTS – central telephone check server

Technologies used:

  • Digital-Unix-Server
  • Oracle-8.1.7
  • C++
  • Java
  • Perl applications
  • 3-Tier client-server technology
  • Windows NT client
  • Netscape iPlanet Web Server
Jan 1999 - Mar 2000
1 year 3 months
Leverkusen, Germany

Second Level Support HP-UX/ Oracle

Bayer

Managing about 120 HP-UX customer production servers with Oracle databases and applications of different versions in a second-level support role.

  • Installing operating systems, databases, and applications, applying updates and patches.
  • Analyzing and resolving errors, providing production support.
  • Setting up and administering peripherals.
  • Administering databases and connecting them to IBM host systems.

Technologies used:

  • HPUX
  • ORACLE 8.x
  • ORACLE 9.x
  • Shell script
  • perl
  • SQL
Jan 1998 - Dec 1998
1 year
Bonn, Germany

Test Environment Manager

Postbank Data

Test lab administration, support, and development of the test system for the telephone banking call center database project

  • Coordination of telephone banking test system management
  • Maintenance of the file system (configuration, traces, logs, etc.)
  • Process control, user management, crash management
  • Problem solving and coordination
  • Providing configuration data for disk management (Oracle, EMC)
  • Setting up test and development environments, documentation
  • Oracle installation (V7.3.x, V8.0x) and administration
  • Upgrading and installing call center DB and online server DB, instance management, database support and maintenance, data model maintenance, SQL*Net, SQL programming and queries
  • Creating and maintaining backup call center and online server DBs
  • Documentation

Corba server administration (handling DB access), installation and upgrades, maintenance and analysis of logs and traces, error analysis and correction suggestions, support for functional testers, maintenance of test environments, version control, programming of maintenance and analysis scripts, documentation

  • Installation, upgrade, and maintenance of Visigenic Visbroker (CORBA)
  • Support on cross-team issues, problem analysis and solutions for call center DB, online server DB, and CORBA server, reporting and documentation, production system telephone banking HP9000 cluster, support in all test system tasks mentioned above, manual loading of live data from branch offices across Germany for the telephone banking call center DB
  • Automation of live data loading
  • Providing installation packages from the test system for the production system
  • Applying patches

Technologies used:

  • HP 9000
  • HPUX
  • SQL
  • shell script
  • Visigenic Visbroker
  • CORBA
  • EMC
  • Oracle installation (V7.3.x, V8.0x)
Jan 1996 - Dec 1997
2 years
Würzburg, Germany

Test Manager

Fa. Ebbinghaus Team GmbH

Design and development of various projects: home worker management, inventory management system, management for fruit growing and agriculture, print and transaction servers, financial accounting (FIBU), warehouse management, program generator and data dictionary

Technologies used:

  • 4GL-POWERFLEX-BTRIEVE under Windows for Workgroups, Windows 95, NT, Novell 3.11-4.1
Jan 1995 - Dec 1995
1 year
Würzburg, Germany

Diploma Thesis

Fa. Westernacher EDV-Beratung GmbH

Project: PUZ for ABB, creating and modeling the database, programming data access with embedded SQL

  • Conversion of a personnel and time system from COBOL-ISAM/MS-DOS to ESQL on ORACLE-RDBMS V7/AIX for IBM RISC System 6000
  • Migration of COBOL sources from DOS to IBM AIX 4.2, installation of AIX and Oracle

Technologies used:

  • COBOL-ISAM
  • MS-DOS
  • Embedded SQL for COBOL
  • ORACLE-RDBMS V7
  • AIX 4.2 for IBM RISC System 6000
Mar 1993 - Sep 1993
7 months
Hanau, Germany

Term Paper

Fa. Weco

File transfer between IBM System/36 and Novell NetWare

Feb 1992 - Jun 1992
5 months
Würzburg, Germany

Second internship semester during studies

Ebbinghaus-Team GmbH

Development of DWH and data dictionary with POWERFLEX 4GL

Jan 1991 - Dec 1993
3 years
Würzburg, Germany

Development

Fa. Ebbinghaus Team GmbH

  • Design and development at Fa. 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 practical semester of studies

SOBA EDV Beratung GmbH

IBM AS/400 / OS/400 with RPG III inventory management system

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

Commercial clerk (accounts receivable)

Fa. Hofmann Menü

Accounts receivable accounting

Apr 1984 - Mar 1986
2 years
Niederstetten, Germany

Contract soldier (data processing)

Bundeswehr

Data processing

Languages

German
Native
French
Advanced
English
Intermediate
Spanish
Intermediate

Education

Oct 1988 - Oct 1995

Fachhochschule Würzburg

Dipl. Computer Scientist, Business · Computer Science · Würzburg, Germany

Oct 1986 - Jun 1987

Fachoberschule Bad Mergentheim

Technical college diploma · Business Administration · Bad Mergentheim, Germany

Sep 1980 - Jul 1983

Kaufmännische Berufsschule Bad Mergentheim

Office clerk · Bad Mergentheim, Germany

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Certifications & licenses

INTEC-Interconnect V7.1

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