Nov 2023 – Sep 2024 · 10 mos · Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium · Remote

Jan 2023 – Feb 2026 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium · Hybrid

• Helping the agile teams with their quality strategy and there quality issues. I will focus on 'shift left' and a pragmatic approach. This is based on how the team currently works and gradually evolving towards a better structured and efficient quality strategy.

Aug 2022 – Jan 2023 · 5 mos · Ypres, Flemish Region, Belgium

• Responsible for the overall quality strategy which focusses mainly on helping the IT department in improving the quality for all the applications. I will help to implement a shift left move together with the QA team and the IT team.

Aug 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 8 mos · Belgium

• Advising companies with their quality issues
• Strategic advise/coaching
• Tooling advise/coaching
• Shift left advise/coaching
• QA engineer coaching/career advise
• AI expert
• Building applications with AI

Aug 2020 – Dec 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos · Halle, Flemish Region, Belgium

• Responsible for the overal quality and testing in a strategic program.
• Focus:
• shift the quality to the left side
• automation first
• scaling agile scrum teams
• Bug prevention
• Enable developers to test

Jul 2018 – Aug 2020 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Ghent Metropolitan Area

• Create an overarching Quality approach
• Machine learning automation tools (code automation tools are no longer cost effective)
• Build up QA advisory team which helps the engineers to test smart
• Setup quality vision/strategy and create goals to achieve the vision
• Improve the quality focus for the whole engineering, product department and customer service department
• Improve communication between different departments which leads to higher quality for the customer (customer centricity)
• Help teams to become data driven
• Data strategy advisor (engineering representative)

Feb 2018 – Jun 2018 · 4 mos · Brussels Metropolitan Area

• Central position between the engineering team and the field (CAM, Support, Presales, etc) and this for escalations, customer bugs etc
• Coordinate and communicate Escalations
• Setup and maintain escalation process
• Centralizing information
• Clear metrics and information about escalations, customer bugs
• Enforcing efficient movement of information between field and engineering teams
• Give EXCO the full clarity and transparency about each single escalation
• Quality&Performance Advisory role towards Quality assurance team and engineering teams

Oct 2014 – Jun 2018 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Brussels Metropolitan Area

• Manager of QA team (15 people in Poland)
• Achievements
• Transform QA team into Continuous Delivery Team
• Continuous Day to day testing (updated daily)
• Effectieve selenium runs per build (we run more then 500 test cases per build)
• Make the team central not the leader/Manager
• Help each person to believe in himself and his/her capacities
• Constructed the QA team from scratch
• Setup the structure of the team (and iterate continuously)
• Recruit the best people out there which are able to grow themselves and who are passionate
• Managing/coaching the QA engineers
• Implement and update constantly test methodology
• Shift Quality left
• Organize and setup with the team a professional and efficient Selenium framework
• Setup performance approach from scratch (test and production environment)
• Created Mobile test approach from scratch (launched the first data governance mobile app)
• Adjust release process into a continuous Agile process (together with the stakeholders)
• Create test approach for the different projects together with QA engineers
• Build a self-organizing team (each QA engineer is able to create selenium scripts)
• Empower the team
• Marketing towards other departments
• Security testing
• Performance testing (concurrent testing, continuous performance testing, etc)
• Accessibility testing
• Technologies & Tools: React, GraphQL, Selenium, Jmeter, JIRA, Qtest, Jenkins etc

Jan 2013 – Oct 2014 · 1 yr 9 mos · Brussels Metropolitan Area

• .net test manager
• Test manager migration of the ASP platform to .net platform
• Setup test approach different phases
• Setup structure TFS
• Coordination of offshore team
• Reporting (defects, execution status,...)
• Review requirements, TC, ...
• Motivation and guidance of the offshore team
• Single point of contact for several stakeholders
• Knowledge transfer (testing, requirements, ...) to the offshore team
• Improve of processes
• Defect follow up
• Production follow up
• Follow up of roll out
• Close contact with customers
• Setup of UAT testing
• Coordinator of Usability Group
• Incident dispatcher

Mar 2012 – Jan 2013 · 10 mos · Brussels

• Test manager of the Click regression team
• Follow up test execution
• Reporting Go/No Go to go to production
• Impact analysis
• Process improvement
• people mananagement
• Improvement of team structrure
• communication to other teams
• Standardize way of working
• Structure testing
• Setup Test automation/Performance
• Implement process to improve quality of regression pack
• Improve defect process

Jun 2011 – Mar 2012 · 9 mos

Feb 2011 – Jun 2011 · 4 mos

• Follow up of incidents in Lotus notes
• Defining test Goals for the releases
• Planning and supporting Offshore testers
• Gathering information about the test goals with business
• SPOC TACT for the front end team, Backend team, business

Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 · 0 mo

Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 · 0 mo

Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 · 1 yr

• In my last project I was a Test Coördinator for a big project in Electrabel named E4U.
• Here I coordinated (15 testers) the preparation and execution of IST, E2E, P2P, ACC testing, where I had great added value to the project.
• This project went live without major issues.
• I changed the business users into successful software testers.

Feb 2009 – Nov 2009 · 9 mos

• Testing SAP, eNRP and xml templates.

Jan 2007 – Jun 2011 · 4 yrs 5 mos

Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 · 1 yr