Product Owner @ Syneco Trading GmbH

Current Position - June 2022

Energy Trading Software:
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* Product Owner for 4 applications
* Writing user stories and bugs for development
* Defining designs and prototypes for development and stakeholders with Figma
* Organising and moderating SCRUM Ceremonies
* Project lead for software quality assurance and introducing E2E Testing automation, structured testing with testplans, test executions and other test documentation
* Define and organise activities for testing across multiple application teams
* Writing and organising test cases, test executions and test plans with Xray
* Test activity and application/project metric reporting with Jira and Confluence
* Manual Testing for UI + and external customer endpoints with Postman
* Interviewing manual testers, test engineers, software developers & working students for product management
* Leading and supporting my own working students for development and product management
* Documenting business requirements and epics on Confluence
* Setting up onboarding structure for new employees & onboarding new employees
* Implementing a Syneco Academy and moderating this company wide learning format
* Defining and implementing product standards across different departments like lean and agile product development, bug reporting, roadmap priorisation, SCRUM ceremonies and definitions
* Release planning and organisation * Reviewing and approving invoices for external agencies I worked with * Managing and organising multiple external agencies and freelancers for applications
* Implementing frontend tracking for web application with Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager

Product Owner @ Roadsurfer

2 Years - July 2020 - June 2022

Fleet Management System + E-Commerce:

* Product KPI Definition
* User Research
* Writing over 600 jira issues (bugs and user stories)
* Creating and specifying high end designs in Figma with proper specifications
* Participating in user interviews for new employees
* Onboarding plan organisation and monthly boarding of new employees
* First level support for all european stations
* Requirements engineering with stakeholders
* Scrum of scrum organisation and setup
* Organising scrum ceremonies with developers
* Implementing frontend tracking for e-commerce website with Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager

Product Manager/Product Owner @ Freelancer

10 Months - October 2019 - July 2020

Consulting and Content Creation for following topics: Software Quality Assurance, User Experience & UI Design, Scrum Master, User Research, User Story Writing, KPI Tracking Definition & Implementation OKRs and Lean Startup.

Product Manager @ Noventi Digital

11 Months - September 2018 - July 2019
Founded February 2017 (Only 1 employee left in August 2019)

Healthcare mobile App for medication:

* Gap analysis
* Organising and moderating scrum meetings: refinements, plannings, retrospectives, dailies
* Writing user stories
* Prioritising backlog
* Organinising and moderating workshops for lean startup development, business modelling, user interviews, value proposition modelling
* Conducting and organising user interviews for B2C and B2B customers
* Defining click dummies and conducting usability testing with customers

Product Manager @ Langenscheidt Digital

1 Year 4 Months - May 2017 - August 2018
Founded June 2017 (Only 2 employees left in November 2018) and the brand Langenscheidt completely got sold to PONS. No employee will be further employed

New digital products for web and mobile:

* Validating and creating new language learning web+mobile products
* Conducting and organising user interviews* Business model canvas for new products
* Value proposition canvas definition* Lean startup experiment conduction to validate asumptions for new products and measure their success
* Setting up hardware infrastructure for phones, internet
* Setting up hosting server instances of atlasian products on AWS
* Onboarding new employees
* Organising and conducting workshops for lean startup, design sprints, user interviews
* Prototype designing

Junior Product Manager @ Vitafy

1 Year 1 Month - April 2016 - April 2017
Founded 2013 (Laid off 30 people in March 2017 and another 20 over the next couple of months)

Ecommerce:

* Organising and moderating retrospectives, plannings and refinements with developers
* Writing user stories and bug reports
* Business model canvas, lean startup validations, design sprints
* Competitor analysis
* Creating prototypes with invision and sketch
* Organising and participating in user interviews
* Testing the software and reporting bugs
* Requirements engineering
* A/B Testing* Organising and moderating workshops

Software QA Manager Mobile Apps @ intive

Formerly known as Kupferwerk

6 Months - October 2015 - March 2016

Fleet Share mobile app with Audi, Mobile App for Volkswagen car and lottery mobile app with German Lotto company

* Writing and organising test cases
* Executing test cases and documenting results in Zephyr
* Test activity reporting with Jira and Confluence
* Defining testing strategy
* Organising manual testers and test engineers
* Exploratory testing
* Debugging of bugs
* Bug reporting
* Acceptance testing
* Writing articles about testing
* Participating in interviews for new candidates

Junior SQA Manager + Assistant PM @ Omniga

2 Years 2 Months - August 2013 - September 2015

Usenet Provider and E-Commerce

Junior SQA Manager -
* Documenting test cases in Zephyr
* Creating a test strategy
* Automating test cases with Java and Selenium
* Executing manual test cases
* Creating test suites and documenting test strategy
* Performance test definition and execution

Assistant Product Manager - Setting up A/B Tests, analysing quantitative data about user with Google Analytics and cube databases. Collecting ideas for new features and doing mockups to present it to my bosses. Setting up and sending campaigns for EMail marketing. Taking care of DMCA violation inquiries and deleting copyright violating content from Usenet.