After my graduation in communications engineering, I started my career as a software developer at Siemens AG in Munich in 1997. The development of products in the embedded area (project Hicom Cordless E: mobile campus solution based on the DECT standard, large-scale, approx. 200 project employees in Germany, Belgium) gave me great pleasure from the very beginning. In this project I did not "only" develop software, but experienced the whole process of a product development. As a developer responsible for features I analyzed, designed, implemented and integrated the feature "Message Waiting Indication" (incl. contributions from other colleagues) and tested it in the system - in parts with emulators.

In 2000 I started working for the Siemens AG in the field of mobile communications (Project Radio Commander: network management system, large scale approx. 200 developers in Germany, Hungary, Italy). For over seven years I developed features in the area of error handling and for hardware remote tests incl. remote software updates of the network equipment. During this time I was able to acquire profound knowledge in sustainable product development covering more than 5 product releases. The experience of keeping a software product and its architecture maintainable and enhancement-ready over years has been a major contributing factor for me.

This is where I learned the benefit of test automation and automation in general, and how iterative development processes combined with automation deliver higher quality. In my additional role as a sub-project leader, I was able to gain a project management perspective on what scaled organisations require in order to be controllable, even over long reporting cycles.