Summary
James Michel is a Senior Test Manager with 13 years in software quality and project management, currently leading testing practices at QualityMinds in Nuremberg. He brings deep hands-on QA experience from a long tenure at SUSE where he managed quality for container and storage solutions and helped shape cloud infrastructure testing for OpenStack-era deployments. Skilled in Linux, scalability, requirements engineering, and C++, he pairs technical chops with people and risk management to deliver reliable, production-grade systems. His background spans embedded and mobile communications development through to cloud and container ecosystems, giving him a rare end-to-end view of software lifecycles. Notably, he combines formal engineering training (MSc Computer Science) with practical product and project leadership, often bridging technical teams and stakeholders to turn complex requirements into testable, scalable plans.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Cheltenham College
M.Sc, Computer Science, M.Sc, Computer Science at Oxford Brookes University
English, German