{"id":13767,"date":"2021-09-01T12:44:54","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T10:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qualityminds.com\/?p=13767"},"modified":"2024-09-06T15:37:57","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T15:37:57","slug":"meet-the-tester-thorsten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qualityminds.com\/en\/meet-the-tester-thorsten\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Tester: Thorsten"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section id=\"block-66791ef121bf5\"  class=\"hero-section template11\">\n\t<div class=\"bg\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1079\" src=\"https:\/\/qualityminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/landing-hero-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\" srcset=\"https:\/\/qualityminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/landing-hero-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/qualityminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/landing-hero-300x126.jpg 300w, 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class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Joined QualityMinds in\u2026<\/strong>&nbsp;2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>When I was younger, I wanted to become\u2026&nbsp;<\/strong>Batman<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Education:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I studied&nbsp;<strong>geography<\/strong>&nbsp;because I liked that class at school but I found out soon enough that studying it at the university was a totally different subject. I decided to change majors in 2008 and began my training as an&nbsp;<strong>IT specialist<\/strong>&nbsp;for application development in the public sector.&nbsp;I often wondered why they taught us programming but not how to properly test the stuff we programmed.&nbsp;Lucky enough, one of my instructors at work was a test automation engineer and he taught me a lot about&nbsp;<strong>software testing<\/strong>. That and my curiosity about everything were the reasons I switched to software testing after the official part of my education was done. For eight years, I worked at the family fund department of my employer and tested software (manually and automated) related to this topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Current project:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are a small team of test automation engineers and developers who develop and maintain a backend test automation framework based on Java and Cucumber for the testing team of the client.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The framework is used to create testcases in BDD\/Gherkin style syntax and tests the \u201cbusiness logic\u201d of a big European&nbsp;<strong>banking project<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Favorite quote<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cVon nix kommt nix\u201d (\u201cYou can\u2019t make something out of nothing\u201d but I like the simplicity of the German version)<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"single-post-aside\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"post-author-wr\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"author-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img alt='' src='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/be24f7a5f0d4999b17910d6208d7a4e726fc3e94e1131257b63d9069f8b5926f?s=96&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g' srcset='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/be24f7a5f0d4999b17910d6208d7a4e726fc3e94e1131257b63d9069f8b5926f?s=192&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-96 photo' height='96' width='96' \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"author-info text-element\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWritten by:\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"author-name\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAdministrator QualityMinds\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"aside-cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"icon-wr\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"76\" src=\"https:\/\/qualityminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Capa_1.svg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"text-element\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Du w\u00fcnscht dir Austausch zu Trends im Corporate Learning, oder zu agilen F\u00fchrungskompetenzen?<\/p>\n<p>Inez ist f\u00fcr dich da! 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