Marcel Pfotenhauer
Senior QA Automation Engineer & People Manager
Weimar, Thuringia, Germany
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Top SchoolMarcel Pfotenhauer is a Senior QA Automation Engineer and people manager with 11+ years of experience building reliable test automation and leading cross-functional teams across biotech and web engineering. Language-agnostic and pattern-oriented, he combines deep hands-on skills in Java and JavaScript with strengths in test strategy, project management, and root-cause investigation. His career spans hands-on frontend development to test leadership roles at Xceptance and BioNTech, now shaping QA and teams at tech11 GmbH. Known for remembering details and connecting loose ends, he favours pragmatic tool choices over chasing new toolchains and excels at turning testing riddles into auditable delivery. Based in Weimar, Germany, he blends an academic background in media systems and computer science with practical leadership in automation at scale.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyTeacher Education and Professional Development Specific Subject Areas, Teacher Education and Professional Development Specific Subject Areas at Friedrich Schiller University JenaMaster of Science - MS Media systems, Master of Science - MS Media systems at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
German, English, Swedish, Latin
Github Skills (48)
test-automation10
test-automation-framework10
selenium-webdriver10
webdriver10
selenium10
testng10
testing10
selenide10
cucumber-jvm10
java10
automation10
automation-testing10
allure10
spock10
bdd10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Xceptance/neodymium-template
Nov 2017 - Aug 2021
A simple template for a test automation suite using Neodymium.
Contributions:14 reviews, 47 commits, 3 PRs in 3 years 8 months
simple-templatetemplatetest-automationtestingtemplates
Xceptance/node-xlt
Jun 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:29 commits, 8 pushes, 7 tags in 9 months
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