# Christian Baumann (@chrissbaumann.bsky.social)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/chrissbaumann.bsky.social
Headline: Principal Test Architect | Conference Speaker | Agile Testing Days Ambassador 🦄
Location: Bitburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

## About

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

- **Principal Test Architect at maibornwolff GmbH** (Oct 2022 - Present)
- **Fellow Test Automation at maibornwolff GmbH** (Nov 2025 - Present)
  Remote
- **Agile Testing Days Ambassador 🦄 at Agile Testing Days | Nov. 16-19, 2026** (Apr 2023 - Present)
  Remote
  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
- **Conference Speaker & Workshop Facilitator at 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
- **Principal Software Tester at Shipsta by Freightos** (Mar 2022 - Sep 2022)
  \- Leading all software testing activities
  \- Testautomation (UI, Java, Playwright)
  \- Performance Testing (JMeter)
  \- Exploratory & Functional Testing
  \- Test Management
- **Senior Software Tester at Shipsta by Freightos** (May 2021 - Mar 2022)
  \- Testautomation (UI, Java, Playwright)
  \- Performance Testing (JMeter)
  \- Exploratory & Functional Testing
  \- Test Management
- **Senior Software Tester at Finologee** (Apr 2019 - Apr 2021)
  \- Exploratory Testing
  \- Test Automation (UI, API, Java, JUnit, Selenium, TestNG)
  \- Performance Testing
  \- Test Management
- **Senior Test Consultant at 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
- **Head of Solution Architecture and Development at 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
- **Projectmanager Salesforce at q-leap - Luxaviation group** (Mar 2014 - Jan 2018)
  LU
  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
- **Senior Test Engineer at 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
- **Senior Test Consultant at 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)
- **Verification Team Lead at 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
- **Test Automation Engineer at 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
- **Verification Project Lead Russia at 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
- **Test Engineer / Softwaretester / System Analyst at 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
- **Trainee Application Developer at 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

### Other
- Agentic Coding
- Agile
- Agile Methoden
- Agile Methodologies
- Agile Testing
- Agiles Testen
- API-Testing
- BBST
- BDD
- Black-box Software Testing
- Cloud Computing
- Cloud Development
- Confluence
- Core Java
- Cucumber
- Defect Tracking
- Docker Products
- Exploratory Testing
- Fitnesse
- GitHub Actions
- ISTQB
- Jakarta EE
- Java
- JavaScript
- Jira
- Jmeter
- Linux
- Management 3.0
- Postman
- Project Management
- Projektmanagement
- Python
- Regressionstests
- Ruby
- Scrum
- Selenium
- Selenium Testing
- Selenium WebDriver
- SoapUI
- Software Project Management
- Software Testing
- Softwaretests
- Test Automation
- Test Management
- Test Planning
- Test Strategy
- Testautomatisierung
- Testing
- Testmanagement
- Teststrategie
- Watir

## Credentials

- Artificial Intelligence Professional — ICO International Certification Organization (Aug 2026)
- Agentic Coding Foundation — MaibornWolff GmbH (Jun 2026) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aSGC-1ght_ujKgZkHAQjEfiLJncT6bD-
- MoT Software Testing Essentials — Ministry of Testing (May 2026) https://www.ministryoftesting.com/certificates/e3b18a71-f5ec-47d8-bb40-3cdca670aee9
- MoT Community Certificate — Ministry of Testing (Aug 2025) https://www.ministryoftesting.com/certificates/b5b3601b-2159-420c-a38f-aaa7995b281f
- AiU GenAI-Assisted - Test Engineer — Brightest (Mar 2025) https://www.credly.com/badges/8e4d20ad-95e9-4896-a9cc-1a080d96a82f/public_url
- MoT Advanced Certificate in Test Automation — Ministry of Testing - Software Testing, QA & Quality Engineering Community (Apr 2024) https://s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/matrix.assets/1tsyaed3fhx08scdb34j8ixoh0d0
- Selenium 4 in Java — TestAutomationU (Mar 2022) https://testautomationu.applitools.com/certificate/?id=643610fa
- Advanced Selenium: Page Objects and GUI Automation — LinkedIn (Jul 2021)
- Advanced Selenium: Support Classes — LinkedIn (Apr 2020) https://www.linkedin.com/learning/certificates/22169b139a7f0ae3fcca3e7c962cf275bae33d21e7777b4d4c2976910912c7f6?trk=backfilled_certificate
- Advanced Selenium: Automation Frameworks — LinkedIn (Mar 2020) https://www.linkedin.com/learning/certificates/d37489414a4f4cb4c3f131215e6073bcfda1d08c0fcf2b4c51da80cf04e98679?trk=backfilled_certificate
- Web Element Locator Strategies — TestAutomationU (Sep 2019) https://testautomationu.applitools.com/certificate/?id=2bcda415
- Neotys Certified Expert for NeoLoad — Neotys (Nov 2018)
- Management 3.0 — Arexo (Mar 2016) https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7XYlRXKxMydaFp4SlJRLWJXNGc/view?usp=sharing&resourcekey=0-h5S22PF1Jdyw8kP4AXKDmA
- Certified Scrum Product Owner — Scrum Alliance (Sep 2014) https://www.scrumalliance.org/community/profile/cbaumann
- Black-box Software Testing (BBST) Foundations (2012) — Association for Software Testing (Dec 2012)
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) — Scrum Alliance (Jun 2011) https://www.scrumalliance.org/community/profile/cbaumann
- Telekommunikationsinformatik, Diplom Informatiker (FH) — Deutsche Telekom Fachhochschule Leipzig (Feb 2007)
- ISTQB Certified Tester (Foundation Level) — T-Systems International GmbH (Jan 2006)

## Education

- **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)
- **St. Willibrord Gymnasium Bitburg** — Abitur (1992 - 1999)
  Activities & Societies: Band, Choir

## Courses

- Agile Estimating & Planning
- Black-box Software Testing (BBST) Foundations
- Rapid Software Testing (Michael Bolton)
- Agile/ Scrum Course (inhouse)
- Management 3.0
- Acceptance Testing: From Brains to Paper and Paper to Computer
- Changing Your Testing Mindset (Janet Gregory)

## Involvement

### Volunteering
- Musikverein Seffern (Music Society Seffern) (Mar 2023 - Jan 2025)
  Treasurer
- Städtischer Musikverein Bitburg (Municipal Music Society Bitburg) (Mar 2015 - Dec 2019)
  Deputy Chairman
- Städtischer Musikverein Bitburg (Municipal Music Society Bitburg) (Jan 2013 - Feb 2015)
  Deputy Secretary

## Languages

- German (native)
- Englisch (professional working)

## Links

- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christianbaumann