Open to test management and senior QA roles

Eighteen years making software quality a managed outcome.

I'm a test manager and QA automation engineer based in Berlin. I've led test strategy across agile release trains, built and managed testing teams at Daimler and HERE, and stayed hands-on with the automation and CI/CD pipelines that make quality measurable rather than assumed.

CV — Test Management CV — QA & Automation LinkedIn Email
18 yearsIn software quality
3 industriesTelecoms, automotive, banking
5 teamsLargest ART test strategy scope
Berlin · CETEnglish, Danish, German (B2)
Two tracks, one practice

I work at both ends of quality — and the combination is the point.

Most organisations hire either a manager who can't read the pipeline or an engineer who won't own the strategy. I've spent my career on both sides, which means test plans that survive contact with the codebase and automation that answers a question leadership actually asked.

Track 01 — Leadership

Test Management & QA Leadership

Owning quality as a delivery function: strategy, planning, people and reporting across multiple teams.

  • Test strategy and QA roadmaps across agile release trains
  • Building, leading and mentoring test teams — up to 7 testers across parallel teams
  • Test planning, release management and go/no-go decision support
  • Defect lifecycle governance, root-cause analysis and triage facilitation
  • KPI tracking and quality reporting that stakeholders act on
  • Single point of contact between test managers, product owners and engineering
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Track 02 — Engineering

QA Engineering & Test Automation

Staying hands-on: the frameworks, pipelines and infrastructure that make quality repeatable.

  • Automation architecture across unit, API, UI and mobile layers
  • CI/CD quality gates in GitHub Actions, GitLab CI and Jenkins
  • Containerised, reproducible test execution with Docker
  • Performance testing with k6 and JMeter against defined SLAs
  • Shift-left security: OWASP ZAP, SAST/DAST, dependency scanning
  • Allure reporting, health dashboards and flaky-test management
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Experience

Where I've done it.

Consultancy, automotive OEM and product engineering — in test management, test leadership and hands-on engineering roles.

Senior Consultant / Test Expert

Sogeti (Capgemini) — Berlin & Hamburg
Feb 2023 – Jul 2025
International technology consultancy, multiple client engagements across German industry.
  • Delivered a unified test strategy across an agile release train of five teams, shortening sprint delivery cycles
  • Acted as single point of contact for client test managers, aligning stakeholders and holding requirement clarity
  • Cut regression cycle time through test automation and CI integration
  • Established ART-wide test reporting and a risk management structure
  • Ran defect management end to end: root-cause analysis, defect lifecycle, triage meetings
  • Coordinated release management — release notes, readiness reviews and rollout communication
Test strategySAFe / ARTRelease managementRisk management

Test Consultant

Hays Solutions — Berlin
Jan 2022 – Oct 2022
Bundling Platform — integration layer for pricing, documents and contract management powering finance, leasing and in-car subscriptions at MercedesPay. 2 teams, 7 testers.
  • Defined QA strategy, test plans and quality standards for supplier teams during the platform's startup phase
  • Introduced Allure-based health monitoring dashboards, improving visibility and accountability
  • Designed and implemented automated API and integration test suites
QA strategySupplier governanceAPI automationBanking / leasing

Expert Test Manager & QA

Daimler AG / MBition — Berlin
Apr 2021 – Jan 2022
MercedesMe mobile app for Android and iOS. 2 teams, 5 testers.
  • Built and led the testing team, creating test strategies and plans tailored to mobile platforms
  • Ran cross-system testing including compatibility with embedded vehicle systems and infotainment units
  • Streamlined defect management and traceability using Xray in Jira
  • Partnered with product owners, release managers and developers to resolve requirement ambiguity
Team leadershipMobile QAXray / JiraAutomotive

Test Consultant

Hays Solutions — Berlin
Jan 2021 – Apr 2021
MercedesMe app team. 2 teams, 4 testers.
  • Manual and automated testing of mobile apps across Android and iOS device matrices
  • Field testing on live vehicles — infotainment, test drives and compatibility validation
  • Tested in-car payment and EV charging features
  • Set up mobile device farms and test benches to streamline app validation
Device farmsField testingEV / in-car payments

Agile Coach

HERE Technologies — Berlin
2018 – 2020
Five scrum teams.
  • Coached teams on scrum practice and agile delivery, building toward self-sufficiency
  • Used velocity and burndown metrics to identify bottlenecks and improve team performance
  • Increased delivery velocity through backlog refinement and close partnership with product owners
Agile coachingDelivery metricsScrum

Senior R&D Test Engineer

HERE Technologies — Berlin
2008 – 2018
Mobile and web testing across multiple products over ten years.
  • Lead QA for HERE WeGo, owning both automated and manual testing for the mobile navigation app
  • Coordinated across stakeholders as the single point of contact for test managers
  • Introduced test automation, CI/CD pipelines, shift-left approaches and test pyramid methodology
  • Automated and manual testing of location-based web services for indoor/outdoor wayfinding
  • Produced weekly QA reports tracking quality metrics and release readiness
  • Mentored junior testers and promoted QA best practice across teams
Lead QAMentorshipLocation servicesTelecoms
QA Assessment & Audits

Finding out what's actually wrong with a QA function.

Slow releases and escaped defects are symptoms. The useful question is which part of the system produces them — test design, pipeline architecture, ownership, or reporting that nobody reads. Assessing that honestly is work I've done repeatedly, most recently across an agile release train of five teams.

What an assessment covers

  • Test coverage and pyramid balance — where effort is misallocated
  • Automation health: flake rate, runtime, maintenance burden
  • CI/CD pipeline structure and where quality gates are missing or ignored
  • Defect flow — escape rate, triage discipline, root-cause follow-through
  • Test management tooling, traceability and requirement coverage
  • Ownership: who is accountable for quality, and whether they can act
  • Reporting and KPIs — whether the numbers drive any decision
01

Observe before recommending

Pipelines, test repositories, defect history and release records — plus conversations with the people who run them. Findings come from evidence, not from a maturity-model checklist.

02

Separate symptoms from causes

A slow regression suite and a high escape rate usually share one upstream cause. Fixing the symptom buys a sprint; fixing the cause changes the trajectory.

03

Prioritise by cost of delay

A ranked roadmap: what to fix first, what to stop doing, and what to leave alone. Sequenced so early wins fund the longer work.

04

Leave something operable

Reporting structures and KPIs the team keeps using after the assessment ends — the measure of success is that nobody needs a second audit.

Working stack

Tools I use in anger.

Across the full testing pyramid, integrated into CI rather than run by hand.

Unit

PyTest, JUnit, TestNG

API

REST Assured, Postman / Newman

UI & Mobile

Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Appium

Performance

k6, JMeter

Security

OWASP ZAP, SAST / DAST, dependency & container scanning

CI/CD

GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins

Infrastructure

Docker, Kubernetes (working knowledge)

Management & reporting

Jira, Xray, Allure, JUnit XML, Grafana / Prometheus

Languages: Python (most recent), Java, JavaScript, Bash.

Credentials

Certifications, development and languages.

Certifications

  • Professional Scrum Master I — Scrum.org, 2023
  • ISTQB Certified Tester, Foundation Level — Berlin, 2015
  • Lean Six Sigma White Belt — Aveta Business Institute, 2017

Professional development

  • Google IT Automation with Python — Coursera, 2025
  • Amazon Junior Software Developer, Java — Coursera, 2025
  • Full-Stack Web Development — Udemy, 2025
  • Software Construction, IT — Niels Brock, Copenhagen

Languages

  • English — fluent
  • Danish — fluent
  • German — intermediate (B2)
Contact

Let's talk about your quality function.

Open to test management and senior QA roles — permanent or contract — in Berlin and across the EU. Both CVs are below; take whichever fits the role.

Email me Connect on LinkedIn Test Management CV QA & Automation CV