Simon_Berner
Profile - Simon Berner 🧑🏼💻
Contents
- About 🎙
- Professional Activity 🤺
- Achievements 🎬
- Education 📚
- What is important to me 💁
- Skills/Expertise/Tools 🍳
- Certificates and Testimonials 📝
- More information about me on 🌐
- House of Test contact 🤙🏽
About 🎙
Hi there, I am Simon. I am a Software Development Engineer focused on Testing. I help software teams deliver better quality with TDD, continuous integration, testing and automation. I’ve been working in the software industry for 19+ years and can combine that with substantial knowledge and learnings in Development and Testing.
I am very enthusiastic about coding, TDD, BDD, Test Automation, Quality, Pairing, Working as a Team (Software Teaming) and iOS Development. I very much enjoy giving workshops on Pair Programming and Version Control with Git.
I’m good at talking to people on all levels and I’m a good listener and tacit observer. I constantly push myself forward by diving deep into unknown topics, doing experiments in my spare time, and pushing them onto GitHub. I am a happy human being who is able to fit myself into every new challenge and situation where constant learning, experimenting, innovation, a healthy team culture, and having fun as a team, are appreciated, supported, and welcome.
Professional Activity 🤺
For getting an additional view of my professional activity, have a look at my LinkedIn profile.
| 2016 - Present | House of Test GmbH |
|---|---|
| Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET), Test Coach | |
| Coaching (2016-Present): | Test Strategy Coaching. |
| Project 5 (2024-Present): | Test Engineer - Private Cloud Infrastructure Platform: Test-Coaching, Automation, Testing. TechStack: AAP, vSphere, PowerShell, SLES, RHEL, MS Server |
| Project 4 (2020-2024): | Mobile App Developer Test Automation - Top most used Mobile App in Switzerland and Best of Swiss Apps Award Winner: responsible for extending and implementing the Mobile Test Automation Framework, for the native iOS/Android App. Functional, Visual and Accessibility Mobile App Cloud Testing. UX and Crowd Testing. iOS Development: Accessibility and Bug-Fixing. TechStack: Swift, UIKit, Java21, JUnit5, Appium2, Jenkins, BrowserStack, AppPercy. |
| Project 3 (2018-2019): | Java Backend Developer Test Automation - Biggest Payment System in Switzerland: responsible for extending and implementing the JUnit5/JGiven/REST-assured Test-Framework. Facilitation of BDD workshops with POs and Devs. Migration of the Test-Framework from JDK8 to JDK11. |
| Project 2 (2018): | Backend Test Engineer - Large financial backend system: Testing of Services in an Oracle Service Bus. Working with HP QC, DevTest, JIRA, SVN, Git and Bitbucket. |
| Project 1 (2016-2017): | Frontend Test Automation Engineer - Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure Platform: UX Test Engineer & Test Automation Engineer in a cross functional DevOps Team. Responsible to leverage and enhance Testing in the Team. Working with AngularJS 5, Angular Material, Protractor, Git and GitLab. Facilitation of UX Test-Sessions with stakeholders. |
| 2021 – Present | Independent |
| iOS Developer | |
| Projects: | iOS Apps |
| 2010 – 2015 | mimacom ag |
| Quality/Test/Application Manager | |
| Responsibilities: | Test Management, Test Strategy, Functional Testing, Performance Testing, Application Management, Incident Management, Requirements Engineering, Linux Server Administration |
| Core activities: | Quality/Test-Management and Testing of Java Web-Applications, Application Management: Health insurance, 2-4 Headcounts, 50 kCHF – 200 kCHF, Project Management, Scrum Master, Controlling and KPI-Reporting |
| 2006 – 2009 | Sohard AG (since 2019 part of Noser Engineering AG) |
| System Engineer & Java Developer | |
| Responsibilities: | System Engineering Siemens ILTIS, Java Development |
| Core activities: | Development, Testing and Installation of ILTIS (Train Traffic Control System) for SBB - Java Development, Testing and Installation of NetBeans Rich Client Platforms |
| 2000 – 2005 | Remp AG |
| Electrician, Electric Engineer | |
| Responsibilities: | Electrical Assembling, Electrical Engineering |
| Core activities: | Construction and Installation of cooling Systems in the US and Germany, Project Manager for CE/CSA-Certification of a Pharma-Device called: EasySealer, CAD Design of electrical systems |
Achievements 🎬
Course Instructor
- I am an active instructor at Holderbaum Academy® where I teach Pairing (Programming) and Git
- For Test Automation University I recorded the online course: Source Control For Test Automation with Git
- For Ministry of Testing I did a few online live ‘Git for Beginners’ courses: Here is an example of one
Projects & Speaking
- Check out my project page to explore all my personal projects and things which I am experimenting with
- Have a look at my speaking page to see all my past and current speaking engagements in the world
Attended Training courses / certifications / self-studies
- 2024 Nix and NixOS (first steps)
- 2024 Emotional Resilience (workshop at IfiPP)
- 2024 Test Driven Development Applied
- 2023 Applying Design Patterns (by Venkat Subramaniam)
- 2022 100 Days of Swift/UIKit and SwiftUI (Paul Hudson - Hacking with Swift)
- 2022 iOS Courses by Sean Allen
- 2021 Online workshop: Identifying & Fixing iOS Accessibility issues
- 2021 Stanford University iOS Development with Swift/SwiftUI
- 2021 gatsbyjs, reactjs, mdxjs
- 2019 Udemy course: Gatling Fundamentals
- 2019 Udemy course: Java Programming Masterclass
- 2019 Completed several courses on Test Automation University
- 2018 Automation in Testing Three Day Course
- 2018 Java For Testers
- 2018 Udemy courses: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript
- 2017 Coaching Beyond The Team with Esther Derby & Don Gray
- 2016 Rapid Software Testing with Michael Bolton & James Bach
- 2012 BBST Foundations
- 2011 Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
Education 📚
2008 – 2015 Master of Advanced Studies in IT Bern University of Applied Sciences
2002 – 2005 Bachelor in Electrical Engineering BBZ/CFP Biel - Bienne
1995 – 1999 Apprenticeship as Electrical Engineer Swiss Post
What is important to me 💁
Some basics
I am looking for something where:
- Constant learning, experimenting, sharing and innovation is welcome.
- I can write code and practice TDD.
- Remote work is part of how we do amazing things together.
- I can preferably BYOD or choose my equipment.
I care about people
- I want to work in a team to build connections, find good ways to communicate and work together and build empathy for each other. In my experience, this makes people in a team productive and happy.
- I love to work in a place that consciously gives explicit room to enable people to build this kind of connection and that values the time that is spent on team building and improvement.
- Collaborating with everybody and every role in my team is important to me.
- I want to be able to celebrate the successes we achieve as a team.
I care about company culture
- I want to work in an open culture, where frequent feedback is appreciated and honest.
- A company’s values and culture should be actively lived day to day, especially in stressful times and when hard decisions have to be made.
- Transparency is important. It should never end when the shared information feels uncomfortable or is bad news.
Skills/Expertise/Tools 🍳
| Tech Stack |
|---|
| CSS, Go, Groovy, HTML, Java, JavaScript, Kotlin, Markdown, Python, Swift, TypeScript, Nix, |
| Tools | |
|---|---|
| API Development | curl, Postman |
| Build and Deployment | Ant, Docker/Docker-Compose, GitHub, GitLab, Gradle, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Maven |
| CI/CD | Concourse, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, TravisCI |
| Cloud | BrowserStack, Docker, Podman, Testcontainers, Ansible, Terraform |
| Collaboration | Confluence, Jira, Miro |
| Databases | SQLite, MariaDB, MySQL |
| Dependency and Package Management | Homebrew, npm, Nix, pip, yarn |
| Documentation | AsciiDoc, DocC, Confluence, JavaDoc, Markdown |
| Environment Management | pyenv, goenv, nvm, sdkman |
| IDEs | Cursor, IntelliJ, PyCharm, Vim, VS Code, WebStorm, Xcode |
| Operations | Grafana, Kibana, Logstash, Splunk |
| Server | Apache HTTP Server, Nginx |
| Shell | bash, curl, delta, direnv, eza, tmux, zsh, zoxide |
| Terminals | WezTerm, Warp, iTerm |
| Testing | Burp Suite, Charles Proxy, Gatling, JMeter, Postman, WireMock, Wireshark, Xray |
| Version Control | BitBucket, Git, Gitea, GitHub, GitLab, SVN |
| Frameworks |
| Appium, Cucumber, Cypress, Jest, JGiven, JUnit5, k6, Log4j, OSLog, Percy, Playwright, PyTest, REST-assured, Selenium, SwiftUI, Vitest, XCTest |
| Testing Skills |
| Accessibility, API, Automation, Exploratory, Mobile, Performance, Risk based, Security, TDD, Test Design, Test Management, UAT, Visual, Web |
| Special Skills |
| Ability to deal with conflicts, Business Acumen, Communicator, Fast Learner, Leadership, Ownership, Pairing, Passionate, Problem Solver, Refactoring, Software Teaming, Teacher, Team Player, User Experience |
| Human Languages |
| English (Professional), French (Professional), German (Native), Italian (Beginner) |
Certificates and Testimonials 📝
If you need any proof of certificates/testimonials in paper form of my passed education or older employers, please get in touch with me.
More information about me on 🌐
House of Test contact 🤙🏽
- Website
- Your contact is: Ilari Henrik Aegerter
- Mobile: +41 78 804 03 25
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- Book a training with us