Viktor Scharf is a QA Engineer with five years of hands-on experience building test automation, CI pipelines, and performance monitoring for web and backend systems. He has driven quality at ownCloud—contributing to the well-known ownCloud core, web, and OCIS projects—implementing backend features and strengthening acceptance and WebDAV/sharing tests. Comfortable across Playwright, Cucumber/Behat, k6, Drone CI and related stacks, he bridges development and QA to turn manual processes into reliable automated workflows. A natural perfectionist and team player, he routinely improves developer ergonomics by refactoring tests, fixing linting and sharing discovery of better tools across teams. Based in Schwabach, Germany, he combines a backend testing mindset with practical frontend smoke-testing experience, making him effective at ensuring end-to-end product quality.
4 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
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:dragon_face: Next generation frontend for ownCloud Infinite Scale
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:2 releases, 434 reviews, 96 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Viktor primarily contributed to the testing infrastructure of the `owncloud/web` repository. They implemented and maintained reports for smoke tests, ensuring the quality of the frontend. The user addressed linting issues and review feedback, enhancing the reliability and maintainability of the testing framework. The commits suggest a focus on automated testing using a Cucumber-based approach.
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:573 reviews, 133 commits, 377 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Viktor contributed significantly to the testing infrastructure, focusing on acceptance tests within the `ocis` repository, which is a part of the ownCloud Infinite Scale Stack. They added tests for features like quota checks, folder creation, and space management (changing names and quotas). Furthermore, the user refactored existing tests and introduced test cases, demonstrating a commitment to quality assurance.
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