Bachelor of Engineering
Hochschule Düsseldorf, Electrical and Information Technology (automation)
Bachelor thesis: test automation to validate the electrical robustness of power electronic components for electric vehicles. Grade: 1.1.
Quality isn’t a test phase at the end. It’s a decision at the start. At TIMOCOM I make sure bugs in three products surface before release, not after.
About me
Lots of tests are not the same as quality. A hundred bad tests can pass while the bugs land in production. So the first thing I ask of every test is which risk it covers. At TIMOCOM I have built the test automation and its GitLab CI pipeline from zero since 2022. Products were added over time, and since 2026 I have owned quality for rating, fleet management and route planning.
Knowledge grows when you share it, in both directions. At TIMOCOM that exchange is part of everyday work: I support colleagues in test automation and learn at least as much from them. Good solutions belong to the whole team, not to one person.
I come from embedded: an electrical engineering degree, a vehicle controller for a Formula Student race car, control units for car manufacturers. There you learn very quickly how expensive bugs are when they only show up in the field. That’s why I think about quality from the first requirement. It’s also where I saw what automation delivers: at Bosch, a signal evaluation ran in minutes instead of hours once it was automated. Time like that pays off in faster or better-validated releases. I use AI as a tool, not an excuse. To get some distance, I run, travel and ride my motorcycle.
- Focus
- Test automation, API & load testing, CI/CD
- Next goal
- QA Lead
- Certification
- ISTQB CTFL
- Degree
- B.Eng. Electrical & Information Technology
- Location
- Cologne, Germany
Experience
Rev.PeriodRoleWork
E 10/2022 – present
Software Quality Assurance Engineer
TIMOCOM- Since 2026, owning quality for rating, fleet management and route planning
- Derive test strategies straight from requirements in the Scrum team; test management in Testmo
- Built the test automation and GitLab CI pipeline from zero with Playwright and TypeScript, holding every test to one rule: it has to cover a real risk
- API, contract, load and integration testing (including k6) and synthetic monitoring with Checkly, so bugs show up before customers report them
- Supported the migration to Azure (Kubernetes, Argo CD, CloudNativePG)
- Knowledge sharing in the team: supporting colleagues in test automation and learning from them
D 10/2021 – 09/2022
Software Test Engineer
BrunelValidated control units for vehicle subsystems of German and international car manufacturers, from test specification through execution and evaluation to documentation, using tools such as CANalyzer.
C 09/2019 – 04/2020
Bachelor thesis student
Bosch Engineering GmbHAutomated tests and evaluation for the electrical robustness of power electronic components in electric vehicles with ECU-TEST and Python. Result: signal evaluation in minutes instead of hours by hand.
B 02/2019 – 08/2019
Student assistant
FMDauto, Institut für Produktentwicklung und InnovationBuilt a GPS simulation for a field sprayer controller and analysed ISOBUS communication in the DODES project.
A 03/2017 – 08/2019
Student assistant
e-Traxx Düsseldorf (Formula Student)Developed the vehicle controller for the Formula Student race car, based on TI C2000 and programmed in Matlab Simulink.
Skills
What I use daily comes first.
- Test automation
- Playwright
- TypeScript
- k6
- Contract Testing
- Insomnia
- Postman
- APIs & data
- REST
- GraphQL
- SQL
- CI/CD & cloud
- GitLab CI
- Azure
- Kubernetes
- kubectl
- Argo CD
- CloudNativePG
- Docker
- Monitoring
- Grafana (Loki, Tempo)
- Checkly
- Graylog
- Methods & tools
- Scrum
- Jira
- Testmo
- ISTQB CTFL
- Programming
- TypeScript
- Python
- Java
- C / C++
- Systems & shells
- Linux (Arch, Debian)
- macOS
- Windows
- Bash
- fish
- PowerShell
- Embedded & automotive
- ECU-TEST
- CANoe
- CANalyzer
- CANape
- CAPL
- Matlab Simulink
- Currently learning
- Quality Gates
- Mutation Testing
- Monitoring
- Languages
- German (native)
- English (B2)
Education
ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level
International standard for the fundamentals of software testing.
Berufskolleg für Technik und Informatik
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