Ulrich Seidel

Senior Tester

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Mannheim, Germany

Experience

Jun 2024 - Jun 2025
1 year 1 month

Senior Tester

Arvato Systems GmbH

  • Planning, defining, and executing test cases for product creation, measurement data upload, and chart verification
  • Developing keyword driven function tests using Robot Framework
  • Defining and generating realistic test data with Python
  • Implementing data-driven and REST API interface tests
  • Performing image comparison tests based on OpenCV
  • Developing load tests for various environments
  • Conducting regression and end-to-end tests, reporting results, and managing defects
  • Systematic expansion of test coverage
  • Integrating Jenkins with Xray for test management
  • Managing tickets with JIRA and documenting in Confluence
  • Used Robot Framework, Playwright, Python, VS Code, Prectavi, JIRA, Confluence & Xray, Bitbucket, GitHub, Jenkins, MS Office 365, and Teams in an agile project.
Jul 2023 - Sep 2023
3 months

Senior Tester

SOKA-BAU

  • Defining and executing test cases for document processing in the central printing line
  • Maintaining and extending existing keyword driven tests in Robot Framework and Python
  • Generating test data for functional tests and automating test script creation
  • Implementing data-driven and REST API interface tests
  • Conducting regression and end-to-end tests, reporting results, and managing defects
  • Ensuring a quality-assured application
  • Managing tickets with JIRA and documenting in Confluence
  • Used Robot Framework, Python, SAP CRM, VS Code, Enterprise Service Bus, git, Bitbucket, Jenkins, MS Office 365, and Teams in an agile project.
Oct 2022 - Jun 2023
9 months

Senior Tester

Techem Energy Services GmbH

  • Defining and executing test cases including functional, business process/workflow, data migration, integration, REST API, Business Objects, and Data Layer tests
  • Conducting system, system integration, exploratory, end-to-end, usability, and performance tests
  • Estimating and refining user stories
  • Using Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management for test planning
  • Managing tickets with JIRA and documenting in Confluence
  • Conducting defect analysis and retesting
  • Used BSI CRM, SAP CRM, techem Heiztec/3, Postman, SOAP UI, Tibco Queues, Miro Board, MS Office 365, Teams, and Yammer in an agile project.
Jun 2021 - Sep 2022
1 year 4 months

Expert for System Level Testing and Test Automation

BHS Intralogistics GmbH

  • Executing system tests on API endpoints and GUI
  • Creating test suites with Robot Framework in Docker environments
  • Conducting regression tests, including MQTT-broker data exchange
  • Performing sanity tests with PostgreSQL database interaction
  • Analyzing and visualizing time series multi-dimensional measurement data
  • Introducing and building a test automation solution with Robot Framework
  • Conducting black-box tests and defect analysis in GitLab Runner
  • Proposing functional and user experience improvements
  • Managing tickets with JIRA in an agile approach
  • Used CI/CD with GitLab Pipelines, Camunda, Docker, Swagger, PostgreSQL, pandas, matplotlib, MQTT.fx, Atlassian JIRA & Confluence, MS Office 365, MS Teams, Slack, GitHub, Sourcetree, and .NET technologies.
Apr 2018 - Jan 2021
2 years 10 months

Software-Tester

KVN - Kassenärztliche Vereinigung Niedersachsen

  • Planning, executing, and reviewing software tests including exploratory, smoke, regression, and black-box tests
  • Creating test cases with and without database queries and configuring manual and automated tests
  • Managing and transforming test data for master data, physician registry, and historical billing data
  • Conducting acceptance tests for physician inquiry data across thousands of practitioners
  • Documenting results and workflows in various documentation systems
  • Performing complex defect analysis after data transfer and export processes
  • Testing and documenting rule creation and multiple versions of the master data standard
  • Writing detailed reproduction steps and tracking deviations in a ticket system
  • Generating test reports and functional and cross-functional documentation
  • Collaborating with business units, QA team, and external software providers
  • Suggesting usability improvements
  • Used Oracle SQL, KVN master data management, process control, physician inquiry, Atlassian JIRA, Confluence, and imbus TestBench.
Jan 2018 - Mar 2018
3 months

Organizer

seidel.graphics

  • Conceiving and launching an international canon competition for J. S. Bach’s 333rd birthday
  • Creating marketing materials and appointing a jury
  • Managing submissions and producing an animation film for a mathematics and music exhibit
  • Collaborating with the IMAGINARY mathematics platform and the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
  • Used Adobe Photoshop and Lilypond.
Nov 2017 - Dec 2017
2 months

Quality Management Tester

Engel & Völkers

  • Conducting end-user tests in multiple languages across various browsers
  • Reproducing defect scenarios and proposing functional and user experience improvements
  • Managing tickets with JIRA and following agile practices
  • Creating test cases in TestRail to prepare for Robot Framework automation
  • Used Atlassian JIRA, TestRail, and Robot Framework.
Nov 2016 - Oct 2017
1 year

Digital Artist / IT Consultant

seidel.graphics

  • Visiting trade shows and participating in design competitions
  • Exhibiting digital work at the German Patent and Trademark Office and the Long Night of Sciences
  • Networking with mathematicians, artists, architects, and filmmakers, and presenting at international conferences
  • Creating graphics and decor for consumer goods and hosting a vernissage
  • Used Adobe Creative Suite, JIMDO, and WordPress.
Jan 2014 - Oct 2016
2 years 10 months

Principal Consultant

Scheer GmbH

  • Providing first and second level support in German and English, administering user accounts and permissions, and verifying licenses
  • Standardizing and optimizing support operations and assisting internal projects
  • Creating and executing release test cases, managing tickets with JIRA, and diagnosing and resolving defects in Process Apps
  • Automating software tests using Selenium and Karma
  • Producing automated documentation with Confluence and authoring user and administrator manuals
  • Implementing VBA solutions for support visualization
  • Used Excel VBA, Selenium, Karma, Scheer BPaaS, SAP ESS, Atlassian JIRA, and Confluence.
Jan 2010 - Dec 2013
4 years

Senior Consultant

IDS Scheer

  • Coordinating first and second level support for over 25 customers and contributing to proposals and estimates
  • Supporting release improvements of a procurement solution with conceptual work and testing
  • Performing unit and integration tests, creating project and test plans, and tracking open issues with Track+
  • Collaborating closely with developers in a Scrum environment
  • Writing documentation and guides with Labcase and developing training materials
  • Designing and delivering workshops and multi-day training sessions for support staff
  • Conceptualizing application enhancements and new components
  • Used Track+, Labcase, IDS Procurement Solution, and IQuisition.
Apr 2000 - Dec 2009
9 years 9 months

Systemadministrator für SAP / E-Commerce-System

DKFZ – Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum

  • Conceptualizing and planning catalog and SAP SRM functionality in collaboration with business units
  • Creating project and test plans and performing unit and integration tests, tracking progress with SharePoint
  • Administering user roles, supporting go-live and early watch sessions, and producing documentation and training materials
  • Implementing supplier relationship management workflows and release upgrades
  • Managing catalog content, data import, and punchout integrations for numerous suppliers
  • Administering electronic data interchange with SAP Business Connector
  • Establishing quality guidelines for catalog data and supporting Euro and VAT transitions
  • Delivering system presentations, workshops, and user training
  • Used MS SharePoint, SAP SRM, Requisite, eMerge, and SAP Business Connector.
Dec 1996 - Mar 2000
3 years 4 months

Consultant

COMPEX Systemhaus GmbH

  • Developing and enhancing logistics software in C under UNIX and performing error analysis
  • Implementing customer requirements with 4GL tools, creating GUIs and reports
  • Conducting white-box, unit, module, and integration tests
  • Performing data migrations and writing shell scripts
  • Developing a test tool for predefined system states and maintaining the data dictionary
  • Creating technical documentation and supporting on-site software deployments
  • Implementing order management, goods receipt and issue processes, inventory management, and MDE-based stock counting
  • Used Oracle SQL, 4GL tools, C, and UNIX.

Summary

Hands-on software tester and data analyst for measurement data and business processes, with a support mindset. Planning and conducting manual function tests, integration, system, and acceptance tests. Testing compatibility (API interfaces), usability, and portability (migrations). Thorough error analysis and tool-based defect tracking. Implementing and maintaining automated tests with Robot Framework and Python. Regression tests for continuous integration/deployment. Many years of experience collaborating with developers, business units, and users, remote/on-site. Industry knowledge in inventory & logistics, e-commerce, commercial vehicles, healthcare (billing systems, pharma measurement data/regulated environment), research, public sector, energy, insurance, real estate, creative industries. Past projects required independent and thorough familiarization with new topics and an analytical, structured approach to represent, test, and communicate complex system relationships. Participation in teams from 3 to over 30 people and projects spanning several hundred person-days. Projects combining software testing, data analysis, and visualization are of special interest to me.

Skills

Products / Standards / Experience

  • 1st Level It Support
  • 2nd Level It Support
  • Billing
  • Adobe Creative Suite
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Aris
  • Atlassian Confluence
  • Atlassian Jira
  • Bitbucket
  • Bsi Crm
  • Ci/cd
  • Data Migration
  • Camunda
  • Docker
  • Ecl@ss
  • Emerge
  • Design And Production Processes
  • Github
  • Gitlab
  • Ids Procurement Solution
  • Iquisition
  • Jenkins
  • Jimdo
  • Json
  • Catalog Data Management
  • Kvai (Gos/ar/a1/a2)
  • Kvn Physician Inquiry
  • Kvn Process Control
  • Kvn Master Data Management
  • Labcase
  • Lilypond
  • Logistics Concept
  • Mac Os
  • Miro Board
  • Ms Office
  • Mqtt.fx
  • Ms Sharepoint
  • Networking
  • Operating Lists
  • Postgresql
  • Requisite
  • Sap Business Connector
  • Sap Crm
  • Sap Ess
  • Sap Mm
  • Sap Srm
  • Scheer Bpaas
  • Scrum
  • Slack
  • Sourcetree
  • Sql
  • System Upgrades
  • Tibco
  • Test Planning
  • Tortoise Svn
  • Track+
  • Unix
  • Video2brain
  • Vs Code
  • Windows
  • Wordpress
  • Xml
  • Yammer

Simulation / Software Testing

  • Imbus Testbench
  • Karma
  • Micro Focus Alm
  • Robot Framework
  • Postman
  • Selenium
  • Soap Ui (Hermes)
  • Swagger
  • Testrail
  • Unit Tests
  • White-box
  • Black-box
  • Module Tests
  • Integration Tests
  • Acceptance Tests
  • Regression Tests
  • Smoke Tests
  • Exploratory Tests

Programming Languages / Frameworks

  • Python (Modules Matplotlib, Numpy, Pandas, Seaborn, Sqlalchemy)
  • Jupyter Notebook
  • Basic Knowledge Of Excel Vba
  • Basic Knowledge Of Oracle Sql

Soft Skills

  • Strong Support Mindset
  • Thoroughness, Reliability, Persistence In Analysis
  • Creative, Associative Thinking With A Structured Approach
  • Independent Work With Team Spirit
  • Quick Learning Of New Topics, Methods, And Tools
  • Create Documentation For Complex And Critical It Processes

Languages

German
Advanced
English
Advanced

Education

Oct 1989 - Mar 1996

University of Karlsruhe (TH)

Diploma in Technomathematics · Study in Technomathematics · Karlsruhe, Germany · Average grade 1.5

Certifications & licenses

Istqb Test Analyst (Istqb Advanced Level)

imbus AG

Istqb Test Automation Engineer (Istqb Advanced Level)

Knowledge Department GmbH, Frankfurt

Certification as Data Analyst with Python

StackFuel, Berlin

TestBench Day 'System Test Nonstop - Agile Tests'

imbus Niedersachsen GmbH, training

Istqb Certified Tester Foundation Level

Knowledge Department GmbH, Frankfurt

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