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Principal Test Architect | Conference Speaker | Agile Testing Days Ambassador 🦄

Principal Test Architect at maibornwolff GmbH

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Christian is a principal test architect with 20+ years of experience in the field. He has successfully held different roles in the context of testing: Test Automation Engineer, Agile Tester, Test Team Lead, Test Project Manager and Exploratory/ Functional/ Manual Tester.

During his career he worked with various test (automation) tools such as Selenium, Playwright, Cucumber and others using programming languages like Java, Javascript, Ruby and C#, but also applied certain development/ testing methodologies such as Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) and Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD). Furthermore he successfully applied different manual testing techniques, such as Agile Testing, Rapid Software Testing (RST), Black Box Software Testing (BBST), Exploratory Testing (ET) and Session Based Test Management (SBTM) or ISTQB.

Christian is strongly driven by his context, always searching for the best fitting solution for a given situation. He´s able to understand business' and people's problems, and is always eager to learn and improve himself, while staying curios, open minded and willing to share his knowledge.

Career: 17

Principal Test Architect

maibornwolff GmbH

Oct 2022 - Present

Fellow Test Automation

maibornwolff GmbH

Remote

Nov 2025 - Present

Agile Testing Days | Nov. 16-19, 2026

Remote

Apr 2023 - Present

Official ambassador for Europe's leading agile testing festival. Core mission: Spreading the AgileTD spirit and supporting the global testing community. Key Activities: - Engaging with the AgileTD Zone to connect professionals to the international network - Creating content to share testing insights, event experiences, and promotions - Mentoring and supporting prospective speakers and attendees - Providing personal discount codes for festival attendees https://www.agiletd.zone/agiletd-ambassadors

Chriss-baumann.de

May 2011 - Present

Core topics: Test Automation, Agile Testing, AI Tooling Key Stages: - Agile Testing Days - Testbash UK (now MoTaCon) - Testautomation Days - EclipseCon - TestCon Europe • 20+ regional Agile & testing meetups Complete portfolio of topics and events: chriss-baumann.de/#speaking

Shipsta by Freightos

Mar 2022 - Sep 2022

- Leading all software testing activities - Testautomation (UI, Java, Playwright) - Performance Testing (JMeter) - Exploratory & Functional Testing - Test Management

Shipsta by Freightos

May 2021 - Mar 2022

- Testautomation (UI, Java, Playwright) - Performance Testing (JMeter) - Exploratory & Functional Testing - Test Management

Finologee

Apr 2019 - Apr 2021

- Exploratory Testing - Test Automation (UI, API, Java, JUnit, Selenium, TestNG) - Performance Testing - Test Management

Q-leap

Feb 2018 - Mar 2019

- Agile testing in a scrum environment - Participating in user stories refinement in BDD/ Gherkin style - Test automation with Cucumber (Ruby, Java) - Web application test automation using Selenium and other tools - API test automation using Postman, Ruby and others - Coaching the whole team on testing - Acceptance testing of Salesforce customizations

Q-leap

Sep 2015 - Jan 2018

Responsible lead of a team of developers and solution architects: - personnel management - reporting to the CEO - hiring new team members - assigning work areas to the team members - working out team internal processes and how to collaborate with other teams

q-leap - Luxaviation group

Luxembourg

Mar 2014 - Jan 2018

Various project activities for the customization of several Salesforce instances - Product Owner/ Product Manager - Development Team Lead - Coordinating a team of offshore developers - Requirements Gathering - Single point of contact between users and 3rd party providers - Definition of processes and workflows

Q-leap

Mar 2014 - Aug 2015

CRM Customization to fit the needs of all the Luxaviation entities · Requirements gathering (in close collaboration with users) · Interaction with all users & stakeholders · Project Management · Acceptance Testing · GUI Test Automation of a web application · Contact point for the offshore development team · Atlassian Administration: Confluence & Jira

Agile Partner

Feb 2011 - Feb 2014

Amongst others: - Agile testing in a scrum/ kanban environment - Test automation & technical testing - Various talks & workshops on a couple of testing topics - Developing and running trainings on testing - Checking test results directly in the DB via SQL (Oracle, MSSQL)

Agfa Healthcare

Apr 2009 - Jan 2011

Responsible lead of a team of functional test engineers: - personnel management - reporting to the verification manager - hiring new team members - assigning test areas to the team members - working out test strategies and processes

Agfa Healthcare GmbH

Jan 2007 - Jan 2011

- creation of automated functional GUI test scripts (in-house developed tool) - development of test automation strategy - training of functional test engineers in test automation - work closely together with developers of in-house developed test automation tool on - general design/ architecture and new features, e.g. integration into test management solution - product ownership of test automation tool - performance tests with OpenSTA - Ruby, SQL, C#, Java, IBM Rational ClearQuest

Agfa Healthcare

Sep 2008 - Sep 2010

- Responsible sub project lead for all test and verification activities within the software localisation project russia - single point of contact for all verification issues for all project members - development of test strategy and test plan documents (according to IEEE 829) - organising tests over different (test) teams distributed over multiple sites in different countries - defect management - MS Project, IBM Rational Test Manager, IBM Rational ClearQuest

T-Systems International GmbH

Jan 2005 - Jan 2007

Creation of test cases based on defined specifications, script creation for automated regression tests and load- & performance tests, execution of automated test scripts, analysis of applications

Telekom Deutschland

Aug 2002 - Jan 2005

MS Navision and MS SQL Server, Demo application, Bugtracking K-12 Basic trainings: Java, OOP, C, C++, PHP, Delphi, Visual Basic, SQL, XML, HTML & CSS, JavaScript, Linux, Databases (theory, modelling, normalization), MS Access, MySQL

Skills: 51

Other

Agentic CodingAgileAgile MethodenAgile MethodologiesAgile TestingAgiles TestenAPI-TestingBBST
BDDBlack-box Software TestingCloud ComputingCloud DevelopmentConfluenceCore JavaCucumberDefect TrackingDocker ProductsExploratory TestingFitnesseGitHub ActionsISTQBJakarta EEJavaJavaScriptJiraJmeterLinuxManagement 3.0PostmanProject ManagementProjektmanagementPythonRegressionstestsRubyScrumSeleniumSelenium TestingSelenium WebDriverSoapUISoftware Project ManagementSoftware TestingSoftwaretestsTest AutomationTest ManagementTest PlanningTest StrategyTestautomatisierungTestingTestmanagementTeststrategieWatir

Credentials: 18

Artificial Intelligence Professional

ICO International Certification Organization

Aug 2026

Agentic Coding Foundation

MaibornWolff GmbH

Jun 2026
May 2026

MoT Community Certificate

Ministry of Testing

Aug 2025

MoT Advanced Certificate in Test Automation

Ministry of Testing - Software Testing, QA & Quality Engineering Community

Apr 2024

Selenium 4 in Java

TestAutomationU

Mar 2022

Advanced Selenium: Page Objects and GUI Automation

LinkedIn

Jul 2021
Sep 2019

Neotys Certified Expert for NeoLoad

Neotys

Nov 2018
Mar 2016
Sep 2014

Black-box Software Testing (BBST) Foundations (2012)

Association for Software Testing

Dec 2012
Jun 2011

Telekommunikationsinformatik, Diplom Informatiker (FH)

Deutsche Telekom Fachhochschule Leipzig

Feb 2007

ISTQB Certified Tester (Foundation Level)

T-Systems International GmbH

Jan 2006

Education: 4

Deutsche Telekom Fachhochschule Leipzig

Diplom (FH)

2002 - 2007

Ferdinand-Braun-Schule Fulda

Fachinformatiker (Anwendungsentwicklung)

Aug 2002 - Jan 2005

Berufsakademie Mannheim

Electricalengenieering

Oct 2000 - Oct 2001

Abitur

1992 - 1999

Activities / Societies: Band, Choir

Courses: 7

  • Agile Estimating & Planning

    2015

  • Black-box Software Testing (BBST) Foundations

    2012

  • Rapid Software Testing (Michael Bolton)

    2013

  • Agile/ Scrum Course (inhouse)

    2010

  • Management 3.0

    2016

  • Acceptance Testing: From Brains to Paper and Paper to Computer

    2011

  • Changing Your Testing Mindset (Janet Gregory)

    2013

Involvement: 3

Volunteering

Musikverein Seffern (Music Society Seffern)

Treasurer

Mar 2023 - Jan 2025

Städtischer Musikverein Bitburg (Municipal Music Society Bitburg)

Deputy Chairman

Mar 2015 - Dec 2019

Städtischer Musikverein Bitburg (Municipal Music Society Bitburg)

Deputy Secretary

Jan 2013 - Feb 2015

Languages: 2

  • German(Native or bilingual)
  • Englisch(Professional working)

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