Benjamin Bischoff
Test Automation Engineer
Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolBenjamin Bischoff is a Test Automation Engineer at trivago with over 15 years in software development and nine years focused on test automation, specializing in backend and frontend test frameworks and CI/CD pipelines. He authored "Writing API Tests With Karate," maintains test-related open source projects, and regularly speaks at international conferences on testing, automation and software craftsmanship. At trivago he builds scalable test solutions across Karate, Selenium, gRPC, GraphQL and cloud tooling like GCP BigQuery, while also consulting and documenting best practices. His background includes game and Java EE development at Ubisoft and SAP Hybris work, giving him a broad perspective on both product and infrastructure testing. He teaches moderation and presentation techniques and runs a testing blog, combining technical depth with communication skills rarely found in engineers who also publish and present widely. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, modern testing approaches that bridge developer workflows and reliable production pipelines.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Qualified IT Specialist, Software Development, Qualified IT Specialist, Software Development at Heinrich-Hertz-Berufskolleg DüsseldorfHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Jonesville High SchoolAbitur, Abitur at Marie-Curie-Gymnasium Neuss
English, French, patois, German
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Github Skills (82)
python10
maven-plugin10
ruby10
maven10
selenium-hub10
karate10
javascript10
webdriver10
parallelization10
properties-file10
dotnet10
browser-automation10
surefire10
bdd10
html10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
trivago/cluecumber
Nov 2017 - Jan 2023
Clear and concise reporting for the Cucumber BDD and Karate JSON result format.
Contributions:80 releases, 7 reviews, 574 commits in 5 years 3 months
bddcucumbermaven-pluginreportingautomated-testing
bischoffdev/property-aggregator
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Java property management that combines different property sources like system properties, environment variables and multiple properties files into one.
Contributions:6 releases, 80 commits, 3 PRs in 11 months
javaproperties-filesystem-propertiespropertieshierarchy
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