Agile Coaching, Scrum Master, Kanban, Agiles Testen, Test Management, Test Automation, Test Engineering, Quality Assurance
Aktualisiert am 23.06.2024
Profil
Freiberufler / Selbstständiger
Remote-Arbeit
Verfügbar ab: 01.08.2024
Verfügbar zu: 100%
davon vor Ort: 0%
Test Automation
Agile Coach
Scrum Master
agiles Projektmanagement
English
Muttersprache
German
fluent
Portuguese
intermediate
Spanish
beginner

Einsatzorte

Einsatzorte

Berlin (+500km)
Deutschland, Schweiz, Österreich
Ich bevorzuge Remote-Arbeit von meinem Standort in Berlin, bin jedoch bereit, im gewissen Rahmen zum Kundenstandort zu reisen und vor Ort zu arbeiten.
möglich

Projekte

Projekte

8 months
2024-02 - now

embedding CBA Agility practices

Senior Agility Coach
Senior Agility Coach

CBA is Australia?s largest bank

  • Coached a Finance Service Unit in embedding CBA Agility practices
  • Mentored Junior Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches
  • Decreased testing cycle time by solving flow bottlenecks

Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Sydney, Australia
2 years
2022-01 - 2023-12

Creation of Strategy for Agile Coaches and Product Owners

Director Agile Coaching and Product Owner Guild
Director Agile Coaching and Product Owner Guild

National Australia Bank is one of the four largest financial institutions in Australia

  • Created an agile coaching strategy for NAB to implement the domain ways of working model
  • Led the NAB agile coaching and product guilds in addressing common areas for improvement
  • Developed a capability uplift program for scrum masters to develop coaching skills
Rally Atlassian Confluence
National Australia Bank
Sydney
1 year 10 months
2020-03 - 2021-12

Transformation of Personal Lending Teams

Senior Agile Coach Java JavaScript
Senior Agile Coach

CBA is Australia?s largest bank

  • Advised on the development of a standardised scaled agile framework for the bank
  • Coached 35 squads across 4 business areas; established 4 new squads in agile ways of working
  • Provided 1:1 coaching to 8 product owners and 15 scrum masters 
  • Established a scrum master chapter to facilitate the exchange of information amongst member
Jira Atlassian Confluence Selenium
Java JavaScript
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Sydney, NSW, Australia
2 years 1 month
2018-03 - 2020-03

Agile Transformation of Data and Analytics Team

Senior Agile Coach
Senior Agile Coach

BT Financial Group is the wealth management arm of Westpac, one of Australia's oldest banks

  • Established 9 Scrum and Kanban squads across 3 divisions to deliver value incrementally
  • Coached executives and the product management team to work in an agile environment 
  • Established forums with general managers and executives to objectively prioritise deliverables
  • Created test scripts for large scale data migration
BT Financial Group
Sydney Australia
8 months
2017-07 - 2018-02

Sabbatical Period

While relocating to Australia, I took an extended period to travel the world

10 months
2016-10 - 2017-07

Agile Transformation

Senior Agile Coach Java JavaScript Ajax
Senior Agile Coach

Nordea is one of Northern Europe?s largest banks, offering innovative digital financial services

  • Implemented SAFe (Scaled Agile) to marketing, analytics and software development teams
  • Co-designed a cohesive agile product strategy for the digital bank with the executive team
  • Created and delivered training programs to groups of up to 200 employees at a time
  • Coached quality assurance teams in the use of test automation tools Selenium and SoapUI
Rally Atlassian Confluence Atlassian JIRA Selenium WebDriver rest assured SoapUI
Java JavaScript Ajax
Nordea Bank
Helsinki and Copenhagen
7 months
2016-03 - 2016-09

Agile Transformation of Development Teams

Senior Agile Coach Java JavaScript
Senior Agile Coach

Neofonie is one of Germany's leading digital consulting agencies with clients all over Europe

  • Training and coaching transitioning teams to understand their role in agile environments
  • Mentored new scrum masters and acted as scrum master for a software team
  • Created automated test scripts using Selenium Webdriver
web driver Atlassian JIRA Atlassian JIRA Agile Atlassian Confluence
Java JavaScript
Neofonie
Berlin, Germany
10 months
2015-06 - 2016-03

Leading the Scrum Master and Delivery Lead Teams

Head Delivery Lead and Agile Coach
Head Delivery Lead and Agile Coach

Deutsche Post is Germany?s postal service; ePost Brief is a modernised, digital post service

  • Developed, defined and implemented the role of "Delivery Lead? within the organisation
  • Established a cadence to enable punctual delivery of high-quality software projects
  • Coached executives and dev. teams adopting agile delivery methods and incremental delivery
  • Established forums for the effective communication of requirements for new software features
Deutsche Post ePost Brief
Berlin, Germany
1 year 5 months
2014-01 - 2015-05

Leading the International Quality Assurance Team and Transform Agile Development Team

Department Manager EMEA Quality Java JavaScript
Department Manager EMEA Quality

PayPal is the leading international internet payment and money transfer portal

  • Coached developers and quality engineers in agile software development practices and ATDD
  • Established quality assurance procedures for regional agile software development teams
  • Prepared automated tests to allow efficient execution in a continuous delivery chain
Java JavaScript
Paypal Deutschland GmbH
Berlin, Germany
3 years 11 months
2010-02 - 2013-12

Leading Quality Assurance, Internet Security and Data Reporting Departments

Head of Software Quality Assurance and Web Security java php JavaScript ...
Head of Software Quality Assurance and Web Security

Immobilien Scout GmbH is Germany?s leading real estate Internet portal.

  • Transitioned 30 employees to agile quality assurance professionals, improving product quality
  • Programmed automated tests to reduce the test phase from 4 weeks to 48 hours
  • Trained employees in ?Automated Test Coding? and ?Securer Java Programming?
  • Realised a continuous delivery chain resulting in software delivery (release) on demand
  • Formed a security team and implemented efficient risk and incident management
  • Reduced the department?s expenditures by tens of thousands of euros per year
Selenium WebDriver Atlassian JIRA Agile Atlassian Confluence SoapUI
java php JavaScript Ajax XML
ImmobilienScout GmbH
Berlin, Germany
3 years 4 months
2006-10 - 2010-01

Test Online Website and Betting Terminal Systems

Software Test and Quality Assurance Manager C# php Java ...
Software Test and Quality Assurance Manager

MyBet.com is one of Europe's largest Internet sports betting and online gaming companies.

  • Coached quality and development teams in agile methodologies
  • Pair-programmed with developers using to fix and/or avoid the introduction of bugs
  • Automated functional tests resulting in a reduction of the test phase to under one week
Atlassian JIRA Atlassian Confluence
C# php Java JavaScript
SWS Wettshop GmbH
Berlin, Germany
1 year 9 months
2005-01 - 2006-09

Test Automation

Team Leader Quality Assurance C#
Team Leader Quality Assurance

Actix Ltd. is a market-leading producer of software for optimizing mobile networks.

  • Improved product quality through the introduction of standardised QA practices
  • Coded user stories in C#.net using Extreme Programming methodology
  • Automated unit and functional tests to reduce the time required for testing
C#
Actix Ltd. / Telecommunications Company
London, England
3 years 6 months
2001-04 - 2004-09

Automated start-up tests

Software Engineer and Systems Tester
Software Engineer and Systems Tester

European Aeronautics Defence and Space is Europe?s premier aerospace company.

  • Automated start-up tests for the Eurofighter Ground Loading System to guarantee functionality
  • Executed and analysed automated tests on the Tornado Main Computer
EADS Deutschland GmbH
Munich, Germany
5 months
2000-10 - 2001-02

Tested new gaming machines

Test Analyst (within Gaming Systems Assurance)
Test Analyst (within Gaming Systems Assurance)

TABCORP controls the main network of gaming machines in Australia.

  • Tested new gaming machines according to government and business compliance regulations
  • Restructured test processes for better coherence and easier handover to new employees 

TABCORP
Melbourne, Australia
1 year 9 months
1999-02 - 2000-10

Tested two insurance systems

Business Systems Analyst - RACV/NRMA Alliance
Business Systems Analyst - RACV/NRMA Alliance

RACV merged with NRMA to become one of Australia?s largest personal insurers.

  • Tested two insurance systems and assisted in data migration to ensure correct interoperation
  • Scoped additional technical requirements and communicated these to the development teams
  • Ensured timely resolutions to problems by working closely with developers 

RACV
Sydney and Melbourne, Australia

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Kompetenzen

Kompetenzen

Top-Skills

Test Automation Agile Coach Scrum Master agiles Projektmanagement

Produkte / Standards / Erfahrungen / Methoden

Summary

SAFe Certified Agile Coach and experienced servant-leader of product development and quality assurance teams offers expertise in defining pragmatic strategies for implementing agile and improving quality that support overall business objectives. Coaching organisations and senior management through their agile transformation, driving efficiency in the product development process by uplifting individuals and ensuring teams stay innovative and motivated. Focus on value stream optimisation, particularly through the use of automation in test and delivery.


Core Competencies

  • Executive, Enterprise and Team-Level Coaching
  • Test Automation and Software Quality Assurance expertise
  • Training and coaching agile software development methods: SAFe, Scrum, XP, Kanban
  • Solid Hands-on Background in Software Development and Design
  • IT Infrastructure Modernisation and Data Migration
  • Strategic Leadership: Key strategist during multiple large-scale agile transformations
  • Change Management, Strategy and Process Implementation, Technical Team Leadership
  • Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills
  • Web Application and Internet Security (Penetration Testing, Strategy, Processes)
  • Bilingual (English and German); thriving proficiency in international teams


IT skills:

  • website development
  • App development
  • DevOps
  • software programming
  • internet security
  • test design
  • test automation
  • mobile testing
  • performance testing
  • database development, administration and maintenance
  • network administration
  • data analytics
  • data migration
  • release management
  • writing and maintaining requirements and other documentation (e.g. user stories, incident reports, test reports, management summaries)


Freelance Web Development Projects

2005 - 2007

Role: Freelance


Tasks:

  • Online registration, user management, PayPal integration, CMS, dynamic content
  • Online DMS (Document Management System); only visible with login
  • nline questionnaire, user management, data evaluation and report generation, CMS, dynamic content (now offline)
  • Wordpress-based advertising website for a local interior designer

Betriebssysteme

Selenium/Webdriver
HPQC + QTP
Performance Test Tools
Penetration Testing Tools
Project Management Software
MS Project
Eclipse
Jira/Issue-Tracking Systems Admin
Confluence/Wikis Admin
Windows, *NIX, OSX, iOS
GitHub
SVN

Programmiersprachen

Java
C#
PHP/HTML/JavaScript
Relational Databases
Oracle, MySQL, MSSQL
VBA

Einsatzorte

Einsatzorte

Berlin (+500km)
Deutschland, Schweiz, Österreich
Ich bevorzuge Remote-Arbeit von meinem Standort in Berlin, bin jedoch bereit, im gewissen Rahmen zum Kundenstandort zu reisen und vor Ort zu arbeiten.
möglich

Projekte

Projekte

8 months
2024-02 - now

embedding CBA Agility practices

Senior Agility Coach
Senior Agility Coach

CBA is Australia?s largest bank

  • Coached a Finance Service Unit in embedding CBA Agility practices
  • Mentored Junior Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches
  • Decreased testing cycle time by solving flow bottlenecks

Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Sydney, Australia
2 years
2022-01 - 2023-12

Creation of Strategy for Agile Coaches and Product Owners

Director Agile Coaching and Product Owner Guild
Director Agile Coaching and Product Owner Guild

National Australia Bank is one of the four largest financial institutions in Australia

  • Created an agile coaching strategy for NAB to implement the domain ways of working model
  • Led the NAB agile coaching and product guilds in addressing common areas for improvement
  • Developed a capability uplift program for scrum masters to develop coaching skills
Rally Atlassian Confluence
National Australia Bank
Sydney
1 year 10 months
2020-03 - 2021-12

Transformation of Personal Lending Teams

Senior Agile Coach Java JavaScript
Senior Agile Coach

CBA is Australia?s largest bank

  • Advised on the development of a standardised scaled agile framework for the bank
  • Coached 35 squads across 4 business areas; established 4 new squads in agile ways of working
  • Provided 1:1 coaching to 8 product owners and 15 scrum masters 
  • Established a scrum master chapter to facilitate the exchange of information amongst member
Jira Atlassian Confluence Selenium
Java JavaScript
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Sydney, NSW, Australia
2 years 1 month
2018-03 - 2020-03

Agile Transformation of Data and Analytics Team

Senior Agile Coach
Senior Agile Coach

BT Financial Group is the wealth management arm of Westpac, one of Australia's oldest banks

  • Established 9 Scrum and Kanban squads across 3 divisions to deliver value incrementally
  • Coached executives and the product management team to work in an agile environment 
  • Established forums with general managers and executives to objectively prioritise deliverables
  • Created test scripts for large scale data migration
BT Financial Group
Sydney Australia
8 months
2017-07 - 2018-02

Sabbatical Period

While relocating to Australia, I took an extended period to travel the world

10 months
2016-10 - 2017-07

Agile Transformation

Senior Agile Coach Java JavaScript Ajax
Senior Agile Coach

Nordea is one of Northern Europe?s largest banks, offering innovative digital financial services

  • Implemented SAFe (Scaled Agile) to marketing, analytics and software development teams
  • Co-designed a cohesive agile product strategy for the digital bank with the executive team
  • Created and delivered training programs to groups of up to 200 employees at a time
  • Coached quality assurance teams in the use of test automation tools Selenium and SoapUI
Rally Atlassian Confluence Atlassian JIRA Selenium WebDriver rest assured SoapUI
Java JavaScript Ajax
Nordea Bank
Helsinki and Copenhagen
7 months
2016-03 - 2016-09

Agile Transformation of Development Teams

Senior Agile Coach Java JavaScript
Senior Agile Coach

Neofonie is one of Germany's leading digital consulting agencies with clients all over Europe

  • Training and coaching transitioning teams to understand their role in agile environments
  • Mentored new scrum masters and acted as scrum master for a software team
  • Created automated test scripts using Selenium Webdriver
web driver Atlassian JIRA Atlassian JIRA Agile Atlassian Confluence
Java JavaScript
Neofonie
Berlin, Germany
10 months
2015-06 - 2016-03

Leading the Scrum Master and Delivery Lead Teams

Head Delivery Lead and Agile Coach
Head Delivery Lead and Agile Coach

Deutsche Post is Germany?s postal service; ePost Brief is a modernised, digital post service

  • Developed, defined and implemented the role of "Delivery Lead? within the organisation
  • Established a cadence to enable punctual delivery of high-quality software projects
  • Coached executives and dev. teams adopting agile delivery methods and incremental delivery
  • Established forums for the effective communication of requirements for new software features
Deutsche Post ePost Brief
Berlin, Germany
1 year 5 months
2014-01 - 2015-05

Leading the International Quality Assurance Team and Transform Agile Development Team

Department Manager EMEA Quality Java JavaScript
Department Manager EMEA Quality

PayPal is the leading international internet payment and money transfer portal

  • Coached developers and quality engineers in agile software development practices and ATDD
  • Established quality assurance procedures for regional agile software development teams
  • Prepared automated tests to allow efficient execution in a continuous delivery chain
Java JavaScript
Paypal Deutschland GmbH
Berlin, Germany
3 years 11 months
2010-02 - 2013-12

Leading Quality Assurance, Internet Security and Data Reporting Departments

Head of Software Quality Assurance and Web Security java php JavaScript ...
Head of Software Quality Assurance and Web Security

Immobilien Scout GmbH is Germany?s leading real estate Internet portal.

  • Transitioned 30 employees to agile quality assurance professionals, improving product quality
  • Programmed automated tests to reduce the test phase from 4 weeks to 48 hours
  • Trained employees in ?Automated Test Coding? and ?Securer Java Programming?
  • Realised a continuous delivery chain resulting in software delivery (release) on demand
  • Formed a security team and implemented efficient risk and incident management
  • Reduced the department?s expenditures by tens of thousands of euros per year
Selenium WebDriver Atlassian JIRA Agile Atlassian Confluence SoapUI
java php JavaScript Ajax XML
ImmobilienScout GmbH
Berlin, Germany
3 years 4 months
2006-10 - 2010-01

Test Online Website and Betting Terminal Systems

Software Test and Quality Assurance Manager C# php Java ...
Software Test and Quality Assurance Manager

MyBet.com is one of Europe's largest Internet sports betting and online gaming companies.

  • Coached quality and development teams in agile methodologies
  • Pair-programmed with developers using to fix and/or avoid the introduction of bugs
  • Automated functional tests resulting in a reduction of the test phase to under one week
Atlassian JIRA Atlassian Confluence
C# php Java JavaScript
SWS Wettshop GmbH
Berlin, Germany
1 year 9 months
2005-01 - 2006-09

Test Automation

Team Leader Quality Assurance C#
Team Leader Quality Assurance

Actix Ltd. is a market-leading producer of software for optimizing mobile networks.

  • Improved product quality through the introduction of standardised QA practices
  • Coded user stories in C#.net using Extreme Programming methodology
  • Automated unit and functional tests to reduce the time required for testing
C#
Actix Ltd. / Telecommunications Company
London, England
3 years 6 months
2001-04 - 2004-09

Automated start-up tests

Software Engineer and Systems Tester
Software Engineer and Systems Tester

European Aeronautics Defence and Space is Europe?s premier aerospace company.

  • Automated start-up tests for the Eurofighter Ground Loading System to guarantee functionality
  • Executed and analysed automated tests on the Tornado Main Computer
EADS Deutschland GmbH
Munich, Germany
5 months
2000-10 - 2001-02

Tested new gaming machines

Test Analyst (within Gaming Systems Assurance)
Test Analyst (within Gaming Systems Assurance)

TABCORP controls the main network of gaming machines in Australia.

  • Tested new gaming machines according to government and business compliance regulations
  • Restructured test processes for better coherence and easier handover to new employees 

TABCORP
Melbourne, Australia
1 year 9 months
1999-02 - 2000-10

Tested two insurance systems

Business Systems Analyst - RACV/NRMA Alliance
Business Systems Analyst - RACV/NRMA Alliance

RACV merged with NRMA to become one of Australia?s largest personal insurers.

  • Tested two insurance systems and assisted in data migration to ensure correct interoperation
  • Scoped additional technical requirements and communicated these to the development teams
  • Ensured timely resolutions to problems by working closely with developers 

RACV
Sydney and Melbourne, Australia

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Kompetenzen

Kompetenzen

Top-Skills

Test Automation Agile Coach Scrum Master agiles Projektmanagement

Produkte / Standards / Erfahrungen / Methoden

Summary

SAFe Certified Agile Coach and experienced servant-leader of product development and quality assurance teams offers expertise in defining pragmatic strategies for implementing agile and improving quality that support overall business objectives. Coaching organisations and senior management through their agile transformation, driving efficiency in the product development process by uplifting individuals and ensuring teams stay innovative and motivated. Focus on value stream optimisation, particularly through the use of automation in test and delivery.


Core Competencies

  • Executive, Enterprise and Team-Level Coaching
  • Test Automation and Software Quality Assurance expertise
  • Training and coaching agile software development methods: SAFe, Scrum, XP, Kanban
  • Solid Hands-on Background in Software Development and Design
  • IT Infrastructure Modernisation and Data Migration
  • Strategic Leadership: Key strategist during multiple large-scale agile transformations
  • Change Management, Strategy and Process Implementation, Technical Team Leadership
  • Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills
  • Web Application and Internet Security (Penetration Testing, Strategy, Processes)
  • Bilingual (English and German); thriving proficiency in international teams


IT skills:

  • website development
  • App development
  • DevOps
  • software programming
  • internet security
  • test design
  • test automation
  • mobile testing
  • performance testing
  • database development, administration and maintenance
  • network administration
  • data analytics
  • data migration
  • release management
  • writing and maintaining requirements and other documentation (e.g. user stories, incident reports, test reports, management summaries)


Freelance Web Development Projects

2005 - 2007

Role: Freelance


Tasks:

  • Online registration, user management, PayPal integration, CMS, dynamic content
  • Online DMS (Document Management System); only visible with login
  • nline questionnaire, user management, data evaluation and report generation, CMS, dynamic content (now offline)
  • Wordpress-based advertising website for a local interior designer

Betriebssysteme

Selenium/Webdriver
HPQC + QTP
Performance Test Tools
Penetration Testing Tools
Project Management Software
MS Project
Eclipse
Jira/Issue-Tracking Systems Admin
Confluence/Wikis Admin
Windows, *NIX, OSX, iOS
GitHub
SVN

Programmiersprachen

Java
C#
PHP/HTML/JavaScript
Relational Databases
Oracle, MySQL, MSSQL
VBA

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