Projects and references since 2018.

15 projects

• since 07/2026ongoing

  • Embedded Systems
  • QA & Test Automation

  UCA International Users Group

  Energy / smart grid, standardisation

  SituationOverall technical responsibility for the conformance and interoperability test programmes of the UCAIug, focus IEC 61850.

  ContributionTest director for the interoperability tests (IOP): scope, planning, on-site coordination, evaluation. Development and maintenance of test procedures, test schemas, technical specifications, how-to guides and toolkits. Quality assurance plans. Support for the laboratory accreditation of members. Conformance of test documentation with the requirements of the ITCA Certification Body. After-IOP reports and test metrics for president and board. Technical lead of the lab accreditation specialist.

  • IEC 61850
  • IEC 61850-10
  • ISO/IEC 17025
  • ITCA

• since 09/2025ongoing

  • Embedded Systems

  Rota Yokogawa

  Process automation

  SituationFirmware development and quality assurance for process automation devices.

  ContributionTechnical software specifications (functional, non-functional) taking standards and safety requirements into account. Firmware architecture. Module, integration and system tests including test specifications. Optimisation of development and test processes: static code analysis, CI/CD, automated test environments.

  • HART
  • Embedded C
  • Static analysis
  • CI/CD

• since 05/2025ongoing

  • Embedded Systems
  • QA & Test Automation

  ABB Switzerland Ltd, Turgi

  Power engineering / medium voltage

  SituationPlatform development in the medium-voltage segment; configuration and variant logic with scaling limits, manual effort and ownership gaps.

  ContributionExternal, vendor-neutral consulting. Independent review of the test concept (test levels, test types to ISTQB, code coverage, defect lifecycle, traceability) with a prioritised list of measures across several implementation horizons. Stakeholder workshops to define targets. Solution options and roadmap for test automation, SAST and CI/CD. Assessment of CRA readiness with reference to IEC 62443-4-1. Design of a mentoring programme.

  • ISTQB
  • IEC 62443-4-1
  • CRA
  • SAST
  • CI/CD

• since 04/2025ongoing

  • Rail
  • Process Automation

  DB InfraGO

  Rail

  SituationTelematics solution for real-time acquisition, analysis and visualisation of vehicle data; the goal is data-driven improvement of fleet availability.

  ContributionEnd-to-end technical project lead. Development and maintenance of the telematics solution, reverse engineering of existing vehicle systems, connection and analysis of CAN, MQTT and REST, scalable dashboards, design and operation of automated test systems, supplier coordination, assurance of functional and non-functional quality.

  • CAN
  • MQTT
  • REST
  • Embedded
  • Data analysis
  • System integration

• 04/2025–09/2025

  • QA & Test Automation

  BISON Group

  E-commerce / software

  ContributionQA lead consultant for the e-commerce platforms: test management, test design, test automation. Establishing a shared understanding of quality in the development team, close cooperation with development and product management, optimisation of the QA pipeline.

  • Test management
  • Test automation
  • QA pipeline

• 07/2023–12/2024

  • QA & Test Automation

  Swiss bank· Name on request

  Financial services

  SituationShift-left DevOps architecture for end-to-end system tests of more than 240 applications.

  ContributionTest automation architecture. Evaluation and selection of tools for test automation, test management, reporting, monitoring and observability (Playwright, Robot Framework, Cucumber and others), definition of exclusion criteria. Proofs of concept connecting iOS, Android, local and cloud apps. Alignment with product owners of other teams. Training on the final tool stack.

  ResultEnd-to-end test architecture for more than 240 applications

  • Playwright
  • Robot Framework
  • Cucumber
  • DevOps
  • Observability

• 02/2023–06/2023

  • QA & Test Automation

  Swisscom

  Telecommunications

  ContributionTest management lead for a sales portal: overall responsibility for quality assurance, technical leadership of the test team, planning, steering and reporting.

  • Test management
  • Reporting

• 09/2022–01/2026

  • Process Automation

  UiPath

  Software / RPA

  ContributionPartner and consultant. Supporting new customers in migrating to the UiPath landscape, RPA and testing. Solutions for integration with GitLab. Support with product maintenance.

  • UiPath
  • RPA
  • GitLab

• 08/2022–01/2023

  • QA & Test Automation
  • Process Automation

  Swisscom

  Telecommunications

  ContributionPrincipal test automation engineer: automated tests of a web application in a government SAP environment with UiPath, consulting on test automation.

  • UiPath
  • SAP
  • Test automation

• 01/2022–07/2022

  • QA & Test Automation
  • Process Automation

  Energy utility· Name on request

  Energy

  ContributionTest automation for an existing DevOps environment, mainly SQL. Pipelines in Azure DevOps, test automation architecture, visualisation in PowerBI.

  • Azure DevOps
  • SQL
  • PowerBI

• 01/2021–12/2021

  • Embedded Systems
  • QA & Test Automation

  IFM

  Process automation

  SituationEmbedded functional safety platform to IEC 61508 SIL 2 with 32 device variants; development and test process as well as test systems to be built.

  ContributionTest concept created and introduced. Continuous integration set up. Versioning and branching concept introduced. HIL with dSPACE and LabVIEW planned and built. Unit, functional, non-functional and system tests of the embedded software. EMC, temperature, stress and load tests. Visualisation with Grafana. Requirements analysis and testability review.

  ResultTest concept and test systems for a SIL 2 platform with 32 device variants

  • IEC 61508-3
  • SIL 2
  • HIL
  • dSPACE
  • LabVIEW
  • CI
  • Grafana

• 07/2020–12/2020

  • QA & Test Automation

  Energy utility· Name on request

  Energy

  ContributionTest concept to ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119 defined and introduced, including templates and training material. Sustainable test management set up, degree of test automation increased, development teams and stakeholders advised on quality assurance in agile development.

  • ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119
  • Test management
  • Agile

• 12/2018–05/2020

  • Embedded Systems
  • QA & Test Automation

  ABB Switzerland Ltd, Drives

  Power engineering

  SituationImprove the existing test automation in R&D.

  ContributionBehaviour-driven development introduced across several units. Test automation for a platform with 10 communication protocols. Fully automated system test deployment. Workshops on risk-based testing. HIL built and extended. Visualisation with SonarQube and Grafana. Test scripting, LabVIEW, clean code.

  ResultTest automation for 10 communication protocols, fully automated deployment

  • BDD
  • Risk-based testing
  • HIL
  • SonarQube
  • Grafana
  • LabVIEW

• 10/2018–07/2019

  • QA & Test Automation
  • Rail

  Siemens Mobility

  Rail

  SituationAutomate system tests of the train control system (ETCS).

  ContributionProof of concept for test automation of ETCS system tests Level 2 and above. Test automation architecture to EN 50126. Smoke tests of the driver machine interface (DMI) to EN 50128 and EN 50159. Test design, tests, adaptation of an existing test framework, new software components and interfaces, HIL. Roll-out of the prototype to other test teams, for example interlocking.

  • ETCS
  • EN 50126
  • EN 50128
  • EN 50159
  • HIL

• 10/2018–07/2019

  • Embedded Systems
  • QA & Test Automation

  Siemens Building Technologies

  Building automation

  ContributionTest automation architecture. Smoke tests for device platforms and engineering tools. Test design and tests (BACnet). Work in an agile project team under SAFe.

  • BACnet
  • SAFe
  • Smoke tests