Evert-Jan is an experienced test manager who has worked with test for the past 20+ years. Throughout his professional life he has held roles as test manager and been responsible for a test department. Evert-Jan has worked as a test project manager on complex international multi-site test projects and he communicates well on all levels in the organization. To be the best possible test manager, he likes to have a little bit of hands-on work within his projects (if time allows), so he can be up to speed with his team and what might be the challenges of the test.

He skillfully manages stakeholders of his projects, and with his positive attitude is an inspiring and positive team leader. Evert-Jan is energetic and responsible. He goes to a task with pro-active mindset and works in a goal- oriented way to reach established criteria of success.

He is flexible and structures work processes at a reasonable level. Having gained experience at one of Europe ́s largest consultancy companies dealing with test, he has an excellent background within test methods. Evert-Jan has performed to everybody ́s satisfaction on all his projects and adds great value to any project.

Main competence areas

• Test
• Project management

INDUSTRY KNOWLEDGE

✔️Business services
– Software vendors and consultants Ecommerce
✔️Finance
– Bank
✔️Pensions
– Health- and welfare
✔️Hospitals
– International organizations
– IT
✔️Consultancy
✔️Public
– Ministries and department
✔️Telecommunications

WORK ROLES

✔️Test Manager
✔️Project Manager

Nets

Test manager

01.2020 –

e-Boks

Test manager

10.2018 – 11.2019

1 year(s) 1 month(s)

Test manager for a migration project from Mainframe to .NET.

Major responsibilities:
– Developing the Test Plan;
– Managing the Test team with testers being physically distributed across 2 countries;
– Defect management;
– Test automation;
– Cooperation with external suppliers;
– Release management.

Skills used:

• Test management
• Test automation
• Defect Management
• Release management
• Test Planning
• Team Management

Nets

QA Lead – Test manager

05.2016 – 08.2018

2 year(s) 3 month(s)

QA Lead for a new developed online payment platform. The platform was developed by several Agile development teams across the globe (teams in 8 different countries). The platform consisted of 10+ different systems that needed to be integrated. The platform has gone live successfully.

As QA lead the main responsibility has been the System Integration Test (SIT). Major responsibilities:
– Developing the Master Test Strategy;
– Executing on the Master Test strategy;

– Managing the SIT Test team with SIT testers being physically distributed across 4 countries
– Test automation
– Aligning cross team deliveries into SIT;

– Release management;
– Defect management;
– Being one of the main drivers for integration and delivering an integrated

Solution to marked;
– Cooperation with IT and business side;
– Closely supporting all test phases and production deliveries.

Skills used

• Test management
• Release management
• Defect management
• System integration test
• Test project management
• Test reporting
• Team management
• System testing
• User acceptance testing (UAT)
• Test automation

BEC

Test manager

06.2015 – 05.2016

11 month(s)

Test manager for a User Acceptance Test (UAT) regarding new functionality on Calypso, which is a standard capital market platform to control among others market risks.

The consultant was responsible for koordination of the UAT test which was executed by one of BEC’s customers.

Further, the consultant was responsible for Defect management and Release management support.

MICROSOFT

Defect and Incident management

06.2014 – 06.2015

1 year(s)

Defect and Incident manager on Windows 7 upgrade project at Region Hovedstaden (Region H). The Windows 7 project is a cooperation between Microsoft and region H, in which 40.000+ pc’s are upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 7.

The consultant was responsible for defect management on the development project in which 1000+ applications were enabled for an upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7. The consultant defined, implemented and optimised the defect process for the Windows 7 project at Region H, which involved many parties across Region H.

During the pc upgrade the consultant became the SPOC person towards the Service desk department. The Service desk is the interface to the users and is the receiver of all incidents, which are Windows 7 related. A part of these incidents must be solved by the Windows 7 project. The rest of the incidents are handled by Operations. In this role the consultant where responsible for the decision of who should correct which incidents. Furthermore, the consultant handled the prioritization of the task of the “ambulancetjeneste” which had to solve the most important incidents.

The consultant was responsible for defect and incident reporting to the management and the steering committee. Besides, the consultant had a role in the delivery of the applications from the project to operation, which had to ensure, that the applications were delivered as soon as possible in order to limit the project scope.

SKAT

Test-, Defect and Release manager

03.2013 – 04.2014

1 year(s) 1 month(s)

Test, Defect and Release management in a complex project with more (internal and external) suppliers, including integration of as well new as existing IT systems based on a SOA architecture.

The consultant runs a defect management team consisting of 3 persons, who are dedicated to run all defects / change requests for a solution via more external suppliers and SKAT’s internal development department. The task includes the responsibility to define and optimise the defect process; bring together the relevant (external) parts in order to agree upon defects; ensure to place the defect at the right part and make sure that defects will be prioritised with the aim to reflect the need of the project and the business.

Further, the consultant is responsible for definition and support of “Change Advisory Board” (CAB). CAB is responsible for prioritization of fault handling/change requests and determination of releases for test and production. CAB controls what the different suppliers must focus on and must ensure the right priorities with management, business and test. The CAB manager is a business expert and the consultant are to define, support and optimise the process regarding CAB as well as lead the meetings with the suppliers.

Besides, the role of the consultant is to be responsible for test and handle releases to production.

KMD

Testmanager

10.2009 – 02.2013

3 year(s) 4 month(s)

Testmanager on system test for a newly developed system (in an agile development environment); later on system integration test where the system should be integrated and delivered in a SOA environment for a customer in the public sector. Testing in a complex project with more suppliers, including integration with as well new as existing IT systems.

As testmanager responsible for:
– Preparation and implementation of test strategy System test
– Preparation and implementation of test strategy System integration test in cooperation with the customer and another supplier
– create an outsourcing test team in India (inclusive recruitment)
– Management of on- and offshore test team
– Management of test execution on-site at the customer in cooperation with the customer and another supplier
– Defect management
– Release management

PFA Pension (Denmark)

Test manager

09.2008 – 06.2009

9 month(s)

Test manager on a system integration test. The project includes integration of a new pension system to be integrated with existing applications. As test manager responsible for estimation, planning, coordination with different side projects and management of a test team with 15 testers.

Motorola (Danmark)

Test project manager

02.2005 – 08.2008

3 year(s) 6 month(s)

Project manager and responsible for eight people in the test department.

Responsible for system integration test of releases releases of business critical software communication systems (TETRA). This included management of the integration test of software and hardware deliveries from 20 different international development teams. The test team was an international multi-site test team (Denmark, England and Poland) with up to 34 testers in the execution phase.

DWD (Danish Wireless Design) (Denmark)

Requirement manager

08.2004 – 01.2005

5 month(s)

DWD delivered platforms for mobile phones.
As requirement manager responsible for management of all software demands.

Flextronics (Denmark)

Requirement manager & defect manager

03.2004 – 07.2004

4 month(s)

Flextronics bought Microcell and this business unit was a ODM (original design manufacturer) for mobile phones.
As requirement manager responsible for the user interface part in close cooperation with the customer. As defect manager responsible for handling all defects.

Embedit (Denmark)

Test consultant

02.2002 – 03.2004

2 year(s) 1 month(s)

Embedit (now Data Respons) is a software consultancy company, specializing in embedded software.

Flextronics as Requirement manager & defect manager

01.2012 – 12.2003-

Flextronics bought Microcell and this business unit was a ODM (original design manufacturer) for mobile phones.
As requirement manager responsible for the user interface part in close cooperation with the customer. As defect manager responsible for handling all defects.

Eurocom Industries as Requirement manager

01.2012 – 11.2003-
Responsible for specifacation description of a ́n alarm system for ships.

Microcell as Software test consultant, requirement manager & defect manager
01.2012 – 08.2002-

Microcell is an ODM (original design manufacturer) for mobile phones.

As test consultant responsible for test of user interface software on a mobile phone. This included defining and implementing the test strategy, writing test cases, test execution and coordination.

As requirement manager responsible for the management of all requirements on the user interface in close cooperation with the customer.

As defect manager responsible for handling all defects.

Sabbatical year

Travelling with my family

11.2000 – 11.2001

1 year(s)

Travelling round Europe in a mobile home.

IQUIP (Sogeti), Holland

Test consultant/team leader/consultant manager

11.1995 – 10.2000

4 year(s) 11 month(s)

Different roles at IQUIP in Holland.
IQUIP is a software consultancy company and market leader in software testing in Holland.
Internationally IQUIP is well known for publishing test methods such as TMap®

Structured Software Test and TPI®

Consultant manager(08/1998 – 10/2000)
Responsible for 60 consultants working at external customer sites.

Recruitment (09/97 – 09/98)
Recruitment of test consultants and test manager for IQUIP.

KPN Telecom (Holland) as Test consultant/team leader

01.2012 – 11.1995-
Responsible team leader on a test project regarding a new billing system. The test was an acceptance test integrating the new billing with legacy billing systems.
The test team was made up of five persons and was part of a larger test (45+ testers).

LANGUAGES

EDUCATION, COURSES & CERTIFICATIONS

NETWORKS & COMMUNITIES

Member of the board for Danish Software Testing Board (DKTB, the Danish branch of ISTQB) (until May 2009)