Alex Schwartz
QA Manager & Test Architect at Deutsche Bank
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Schwartz is a pragmatic QA Manager and Test Architect with 20+ years in software and 14 years of hands-on engineering experience, now leading quality and delivery for Deutsche Bank’s NexusPay teams from Berlin. He blends strategic leadership, Agile coaching and empathy-driven people management with deep technical chops in CI/CD, test automation and architecture to make incremental, low-risk delivery the default. Comfortable in regulated fintech, banking and telecom environments, he balances compliance with pragmatic innovation and has evangelized BDD, Continuous Delivery and DevOps across teams. A former engineering leader at Solarisbank and emnify and long-time Agile coach, he also contributed to the GoCD continuous-delivery project by improving test coverage and core pipeline label handling—demonstrating his focus on testability and resilient delivery pipelines. Trained to PhD level in mathematics and computer science, he pairs rigorous analytical thinking with a preference for small, high-impact teams over big-headcount fixes.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Mathematics Computer Science, PhD Mathematics Computer Science at Technische Universität Berlin
English, German
Github Skills (8)
javas10
continuous-delivery10
java10
gocd10
testing10
continuous-integration9
junit9
git8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
gocd/gocd
Mar 2015 - Dec 2015
GoCD - Continuous Delivery server main repository
Role in this project:
Back-end & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end & Test Automation EngineerContributions:23 commits, 3 PRs, 28 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the GoCD project by modifying and adding unit tests related to pipeline label functionality. Their work involved adding new tests, refactoring existing code for testability, and addressing issues related to the truncation of material revisions within pipeline labels. They also made code changes related to the handling and validation of pipeline labels, which indicates work on core functionalities of the project. Overall, the user's work centered on enhancing the testing coverage and refining specific features related to the continuous delivery server.
continuous-deploymentcontinuous-testinggocddevopscontinuous
alexschwartz/gocd
Feb 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:42 pushes, 18 branches, 1 comment in 1 year 9 months
golangcontinuouscontinuous-delivery
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