Christian Baumann

Christian Baumann

Software Tester

About me

Christian is a principal test architect with 15+ 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 Cucumber, Selenium, Watir and others using programming languages like Java, 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.

Public speaking

My public speaking and workshops. Reach out if you feel I could do something similar for you!

GitHub Actions in action

Workshop
Test Automation Days
Mar 2025

AI vs Gilded Rose: Future of Testing or Just a Thorny Path

Talk
Agile Testing Days
Nov 2024

Sniffing Out and Squashing Code Smells

Workshop
Agile Testing Days
Nov 2024

AI vs Gilded Rose: Future of Testing or Just a Thorny Path

Talk
DSTB conference
Oct 2024

AI-Assisted Testing with Playwright & GitHub Copilot

Workshop
MaibornWolff AI Summercamp
Jul 2024

Unfacepalm Your Test Automation

Talk
Agile Testing Days Meetup Munich
Jun 2024

How to Untangle Your Spaghetti Test Code

Workshop
Agile Testing Days
Nov 2023

Design patterns to boost your Test Automation

Talk
HUSTEF
Oct 2023

Design patterns to boost your Test Automation

Talk
Testing United
Sep 2023

Design patterns to boost your Test Automation

Talk
Testing Stage
Apr 2023

Don't be a fool with a tool

Talk
askui Hackathon
Mar 2023

Design Patterns in Test Automation

Webinar
Practitest
Jan 2023

Automating the web with Playwright

Workshop
Agile Testing Days
Nov 2022

Don't be a fool with a tool

Talk
Agile Testing Days
Nov 2022

Don't be a fool with a tool

Talk
ASQF Test Automation Challenge
Oct 2022

Sei kein Fool
mit nem Tool


Talk
AutomationSTAR
Oct 2022

Don't be a fool with a tool

Talk
TestJam
Sep 2022

Ask Me Anything: Testautomation

Ask Me Anything
Testbash UK
Sep 2022

Eliminating Code Smells

Activity
Testbash UK
Sep 2022

Recognising and Eliminating Code Smells 101

99 Minutes Workshop
Testbash UK
Sep 2022

Don't be a fool with a tool

Talk
Testbash UK
Sep 2022

Don't be a fool with a tool

Talk
expo:QA
Jun 2022

Don't be a fool with a tool

Talk
STMS Meetup
Oct 2021

Don't be a fool with a tool

Talk
Tesenafest Online
Sep 2021

Extreme learning situations as testers

Talk
Online Test Conf
May 2021

Extreme learning situations as testers

Talk
Agile Testing Days
Nov 2020

Extreme learning situations as testers

Talk
Eclipse Con
Oct  2020

Extreme learning situations as testers

Talk
Test Con Europe
Oct 2020

Selenium:
Silver Bullet or just a Hammer

Lightning Talk
Agile Testing Days
Nov 2019

Agile Testing Games

Workshop
Luxembourg Testing & QA Meetup
Jan 2019

Testing in an agile team

Talk
Agile Meetup Luxembourg
Jan 2018

Testing in an agile team

Talk
AgileXChange
Nov 2017

Test Automation
in Practice

Workshop
q-leap
Nov 2015

Agile Testing in Practice

Talk
AIGLU Meetup
Sep 2015

Agile Testing in Scrum

Talk
Luxembourg Software Testing Event
Jun 2014

Manual Regression Testing as whole-team activity

Lightning Talk
Agile Testing Days
Oct 2013

Agile Testing Games

Workshop
Agile Partner
Apr 2013

Agile Testing - Facts and Myths

Workshop
Agile Partner
Jun 2012

Agile Test Tools

Talk
Agile Tour Luxembourg
Nov 2011

Agile Test Tools

Talk
Luxembourg Testing Board Meetup
May 2011

Curriculum Vitae

More details on my LinkedIn- or Xing-profile.

Principal Test Architect

MaibornWolff
Oct 2022 - today

Principal Software Tester

Shipsta
Mar 2022 - Sep 2022

Senior Software Tester

Shipsta
May 2021 - Mar 2022

Senior Software Tester

Finologee
Apr 2019 - Apr 2021

Senior Test Consultant

q-leap
Feb 2018 - Mar 2019

Development Manager

q-leap
Sep 2015 - Jan 2018

Senior Test Engineer

q-leap
Mar 2014 - Aug 2015

Senior Test Consultant

Agile Partner
Feb 2011 - Feb 2014

Verification Team Lead

Agfa Healthcare
Apr 2009 - Jan 2011

Test Automation Engineer

Agfa Healthcare
Jan 2007 - Jan 2011

Verfication Project Lead

Agfa Healthcare
Sep 2008 - Sep 2010

Test Engineer

T-Systems
Jan 2005 - Jan 2007

Trainee Application Developer

Deutsche Telekom
Aug 2002 - Jan 2005

Studies: Informatics

DT Fachhochschule Leipzig
Oct 2002 - Jan 2007

Studies: Electrical Engineering

Berufsakademie Mannheim
Oct 2000 - Oct 2001

Get in touch

Christian Baumann

Mühlenstraße 7a, 54646 Brecht, Germany

Email: mail (at) christianbaumann.dev

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