Florian_Sommerfeldt

Profile - Florian Sommerfeldt 🧑🏼‍💻

House of Test


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About 🎙

I test complex systems by exploring, learning, and experimenting. I build fast and stable test automation frameworks and tests. I give talks and workshops on software testing to share my experiences. I use automation to get rid of repetitive, time-consuming, and monotonous tasks. I create useful test documentation to share my knowledge. All this by working with the different roles involved in the software development process.

I like to be involved in all phases of the software development process, so that I can add value and identify problems as early as possible. As a trained software developer and a hobbyist web and video game developer, I use my technical knowledge and experience to understand and challenge the technologies and solutions used.

Professional Activity 🤺

2024 - Present House of Test GmbH
  Test Engineer
Swiss Railway Company (2024-today): Testing a mobile app
  Creating automated mobile app tests
2022 - Present East Switzerland University of Applied Sciences
  Lecturer
CAS Software Testing Lecture about risk-based testing
2019 - 2024 Ergon Informatik AG
  Senior Test Engineer
Airlock SaaS (2022-2024): Embedded tester in the development team, collaborating with developers and product management
  Have sole responsibility for test management, the test strategy and testing
  Testing SaaS components such as web applications, infrastructure, and a cloud operator
  Working on and challenging solution designs
  Working on requirements and use cases
  Creating a framework for automated REST API tests
  Project manager of release-specific sub-teams
  Participate in the development of the backend and infrastructure
Airlock IAM (2019-2022): Embedded tester in the development team, collaborating with developers and product management
  Have sole responsibility for test management, the test strategy and testing
  Testing a complex and highly configurable identity and access management product
  Working on and challenging solution designs
  Working on requirements and use cases
  Creating a tool for automated test environments
  Coaching working students in testing
  Project manager of release-specific sub-teams
  Participate in the development of the frontend and backend
  2nd and 3rd-level support
2015 - 2019 Abraxas Informatik AG
  Test Manager / Scrum Master
Abraxas TAX (2015-2019): Embedded tester in the development team, collaborating with developers, product owners and customers
  Testing a complex tax application
  Challenging requirements
  Creating a framework for automated REST API tests
  Lead of the Community of Practice Testing
  Facilitation of sprint retrospectives and sprint plannings
  3rd-level support
2014 - 2015 SQS Switzerland AG
  Junior Consultant
Project 1 (2014-2015): Tester for a swiss mobile banking app
  Creating and maintaining test cases in HP Quality Center
  Deputy Test Manager
  PoC for automated mobile tests
  Evaluation of the performance tests
2011 - 2014 idealo internet GmbH
  QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Price Comparison Website Embedded tester in the development team, collaborating with developers and product owners
  Creating, maintaining and extending a framework for automated browser tests

Trainings 🥋

Education 📚

What is important to me 💁

Learning

The opportunity to constantly learn about technologies, domains, processes and people.

Collaboration

I believe that a software development team that collaborates across multiple disciplines, learns from each other and considers different points of view is essential to delivering value.

Transparency

Decision making is a critical part of the software development process. I believe that transparency allows us to have all the relevant information available to make good decisions.

Trust

Trust is the foundation of collaboration, communication, feedback culture and openness to failure. I believe that these aspects will help us achieve our goals.

Skills/Expertise/Tools 🍳

Human Languages
German (native), English
Tech-Stack
CSS, Go, HTML, Java, JavaScript, Kotlin, NoSql, PHP, SQL, TypeScript
Tools  
Build and Deployment Ant, Bamboo, Docker/Docker-Compose, GitHub, GitLab, Gradle, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Maven, Tilt
Cloud Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure
Collaboration Confluence, Jira, Miro
IDEs Eclipse, IntelliJ, NetBeans, Visual Studio Code
Operations Grafana, Kibana, Splunk
Testing BrowserStack, Burp Suite, Chaos Mesh, Gatling, HP Quality Center, JMeter, LitmusChaos, Postman, WireMock, Wireshark, Xray
Frameworks
Angular, Appium, Bootstrap, Cypress, Jest, JUnit, Mockito, NextJS, OpenAPI Specification, Playwright, REST Assured, Selenium / WebDriver, Spring, Tailwind CSS
Testing Skills
Accessibility, API, Chaos & Resilience, Context-Driven, Exploratory, Load & Performance, Mobile, Risk-based, Security, Automation, Infrastructure, Management, Web
Special Skills
Project Management, Requirements Engineering, Risk Assessment, Teaching & Coaching

Certificates and Testimonials 📝

If you need any proof of certificates/testimonials of my passed education or older employers, please contact me.

More information about me on 🌐

House of Test contact 🤙🏽