Experience

Praegus B.V.

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director & Chief Human Resources Officer

  • Dec 2021 - Present

  Leusden, Utrecht, Netherlands Director & Chief Human Resources Officer of the Praegus Group. The Praegus Group consists of Praegus BV, Praegus Solutions BV, Praegus Academy BV and Praegus Connect BV.

• Test Consultant / Test Manager / Scrum Master / Trainer / HR Manager

  • Jun 2011 - Jan 2022

  Almere Stad Area, Netherlands Interim at various clients as a test manager and test consultant. Strong on result and designing / advising on test process, test improvement and test policy. Also available for test assessments, coaching & mentoring, training and workshops. Developed and provided training courses on TMap NEXT Test Engineer / Foundation (exam training) and Test Awareness (workshop).



Orangebeard.io

• Netherlands
• IT System Testing and Evaluation
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director & Chief Human Resources Officer

  • Dec 2021 - Present

  Leusden, Utrecht, Netherlands Orangebeard.io is an intelligent AI driven platform, showing you real time results of all automated tests (of any kind) throughout your test pyramid. In a blink of an eye it provides you clear and solid feedback on what is being tested, who is testing, how it worked out, why tests failed and where the failure is situated. Besides that, our tools enable you to easily analyze and optimize your testing. Orangebeard.io and Praegus also participate actively in the #ITEA3 project "IVVES"… Show more Orangebeard.io is an intelligent AI driven platform, showing you real time results of all automated tests (of any kind) throughout your test pyramid. In a blink of an eye it provides you clear and solid feedback on what is being tested, who is testing, how it worked out, why tests failed and where the failure is situated. Besides that, our tools enable you to easily analyze and optimize your testing. Orangebeard.io and Praegus also participate actively in the #ITEA3 project "IVVES", where the use of #AI and complex, evolving systems (ES), i.e. systems that rapidly change, either due to fast iteration cycles in development or due to their capability to self-adapt and learn, will grow significantly in automation, computation and novel digital services. Targeting the challenges in verification and validation of AI and evolving systems, IVVES will systematically develop Artificial Intelligence approaches for robust and comprehensive, industrial-grade V&V of “embedded AI”, i.e. Machine Learning for control of complex, mission-critical evolving systems and services covering the major industrial domains in Europe. More info: www.orangebeard.io

• HR Manager

  • Feb 2021 - Jan 2022



Rabobank

• Netherlands
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Subject Matter Expert Testing

  • Oct 2019 - Jul 2020

  Rabobank have adopted the tribe way of working. Within the IT-chapter of te Tribe I'm working as a Subject Matter Expert on testing. Within this role I'm responsible for aligning the test activities over the various squads, help them with improving their maturity and, facilitate the testing guild and provide hands-on help on testing subjects. Via the created test guild we focus on knowledge sharing, knowing your colleagues and combine resources for resolving shared challenges.

• Test Automation Consultant / DevOps Engineer

  • Oct 2018 - Oct 2019



PLUS Retail

• Netherlands
• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Test Manager / Adviseur testautomatisering

  • Oct 2017 - Sep 2018

  Utrecht Area, Netherlands Test Manager for the SAP implementation within PLUS Retail, with a focus on process improvement and advising on test automation with Tricentis Tosca



Rabobank

• Netherlands
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Scrum Master / Test Manager / Testautomatisering

  • Aug 2014 - Oct 2017

  Utrecht Area, Netherlands Team: Verzekeren Particulieren Agile/Scrum - DevOps - Selenium - Fitnesse - webb-in-app - mobile - Docker - Angular - Oracle



Astellas Pharma US

• United States
• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Validation Manager (hired)

  • Mar 2014 - Aug 2014

  Leiden Astellas is a Pharmaceutical company. Within Astellas one of the global and business critical applications had to be replaced for a Commercial of the shelf system (Register). This had to be done within ambitious timelines and Nicolai is hired to manage and coordinate the Computer System Validation (CSV) activities. Since it is a global implementation for the US, Japan an EU region the focus of the assignment is the alignment en coordination of the CSV activities with the various… Show more Astellas is a Pharmaceutical company. Within Astellas one of the global and business critical applications had to be replaced for a Commercial of the shelf system (Register). This had to be done within ambitious timelines and Nicolai is hired to manage and coordinate the Computer System Validation (CSV) activities. Since it is a global implementation for the US, Japan an EU region the focus of the assignment is the alignment en coordination of the CSV activities with the various regions Activities and responsibilities: - Daily management of the Validation activities - Issue and Deviation Handling - Resource planning - Review activities for various documents (Data Migration plans, IQ, MQ, OQ and PQ documents) - Guidance of the Business users during the Validation activities) - Assure the correct appliance of CSV rules and procedures Test team size: 10+ testers Domain expertise: Pharmaceutical Industry, Computer System Validation (CSV) Show less



Turien & Co Assuradeuren

• Test Manager (hired)

  • Nov 2013 - Feb 2014

  Alkmaar Area, Netherlands The current system used for health insurance claims did not meet the requirement anymore with respect to efficiency, automated control, management information and implementation of changes with respect to legislation. Therefore it was decided to replace the system with a Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) product delivered by the firm Topicus called Force.. The 'Force' program aims to implement the package of 'Force' in the existing processing chain. As of 1st of January 2014 the claims should be… Show more The current system used for health insurance claims did not meet the requirement anymore with respect to efficiency, automated control, management information and implementation of changes with respect to legislation. Therefore it was decided to replace the system with a Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) product delivered by the firm Topicus called Force.. The 'Force' program aims to implement the package of 'Force' in the existing processing chain. As of 1st of January 2014 the claims should be handled in Force. This deadline has succeeded by the targeted deployment and efforts of Nicolai. Tasks and responsibilities: - Daily coordination of the test team - Defect Management - Reporting progress and issues - Implementing test tooling TFS Test Manager (Microsoft) - Functional acceptance testing (responsible for the E2E chain for customer-output) - Interface Test (XML); Test team size: 6 testers Domain expertise: Health insurrance Show less



ING Insurance Central and Rest of Europe

• Insurance
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Test Manager / Country Coordinator - ING Insurance International (hired)

  • Nov 2012 - Oct 2013

  Bucharest, Romania / Athens, Greece / Belgium, Brussels The Readiness program is responsible for the disentanglement of ING Bank and Insurances. ING Insurance International (III) must have an initial workplace build that satisfies the requirements and III must have rolled out this build to all of its users. In addition, III must be providing all services required to maintain the operational status of this build. Tasks and responsibilities as test manager: - Creation / Selection of test products to facilitate test activities for Workplace… Show more The Readiness program is responsible for the disentanglement of ING Bank and Insurances. ING Insurance International (III) must have an initial workplace build that satisfies the requirements and III must have rolled out this build to all of its users. In addition, III must be providing all services required to maintain the operational status of this build. Tasks and responsibilities as test manager: - Creation / Selection of test products to facilitate test activities for Workplace Solution of the Readiness Program - Planning and execution of test activities for WPS - Advise on and executed EUC WPS test processes /activities - Organize and execute regression tests for Application Readiness sequencing and packaging and facilitate user acceptance testing with business users - Follow up on requirements for the WPS solution regarding App-V, MSI and SCCM infrastructure / Software distribution. - Serve as a technical contact on projects as assigned. - Responsible for all changes in used test methodology - Advise on test approach using software packages (AppV/MSI) for WPS - Hands-on execution of acceptance tests Test Team size: 5 testers / coordinators (multiple countries). Tasks and responsibilities as country coordinator: Responsible for the day to day coordination of the packaging and sequencing team and the delivery of the packages and sequences for the new workplace solution in Romania, Greece and Belgium. Single Point of Contact packaging and sequencing team, progress reporting, issue handling and resolving for the application readiness activities within the various countries. Team size: 4 Packagers / Sequencers (per country)

• Team Leader Workplace Migration - ING Insurance International (hired)

  • Mar 2013 - Jul 2013

  Bucharest, Romania Workplace migration, issue management, team coordination, planning and structuring the migration process. Responsible for the day to day activities of the workplace migration team. Environment: Windows 7, Office 2010, Active directory, SCCM, Desktops, laptops, APPV and MSI. Team size: 5 migration specialists / packagers / sequencers Domain expertise: Workplace migrations



ING Nederland

• Netherlands
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Test Manager / Coordinator – Trade Finance & Guarantees (hired)

  • Jan 2012 - Nov 2012

  Amsterdam Area, Netherlands As a Test Manager responsible for the Wave 3 Target Landscape and Data migration project, which was a follow up on the former TANGO projects, for the TFS & BG department. Tasks and responsibilities: Test management, test planning, test approach, progress reporting, system testing, system integration testing (BILA), End-to-End testing and acceptance testing. Test team size: 3 Testers Domain expertise: Trade Finance and Guarantees

• Test Consultant – Trade Finance & Guarantees (hired)

  • Oct 2011 - Dec 2011

  Amsterdam Area, Netherlands Test process improvement for the TFS & BG department. Within this assignment first the current situation within the different departments is analyzed. Secondly the result were analyzed and suggestion for improvements and Quick-Wins were described. All the results were finally combined in a advice and presented to the stakeholders. At the end the department started with the implementation of the first Quick-Wins.

• Test Manager / Coordinator - Trade Finance & Guarantees (hired)

  • Jun 2010 - Oct 2011

  Amsterdam Area, Netherlands Test management, test planning, test approach, progress reporting, system testing, acceptance testing, End-to-End testing, test specification, test execution and defect management. Created a test team that was responsible for the testing on multiple projects i.e. TANGO wave 2, TANGO wave 2.5 and ImprovING Banktrade. Additional: Responsible for activities and process that needed to be created and applied for the CMMi Level 2 certification on the process area Configuration Management… Show more Test management, test planning, test approach, progress reporting, system testing, acceptance testing, End-to-End testing, test specification, test execution and defect management. Created a test team that was responsible for the testing on multiple projects i.e. TANGO wave 2, TANGO wave 2.5 and ImprovING Banktrade. Additional: Responsible for activities and process that needed to be created and applied for the CMMi Level 2 certification on the process area Configuration Management (CM) within the TFS & BG department. Test team size: 3 Testers + 2 End user / Administrators Domain expertise: Trade Finance and Guarantees

• System Analyst / Test Coordinator / Test specialist – ImprovING BankTrade (hired)

  • Apr 2010 - May 2010

  Amsterdam Area, Netherlands System analysis, information analysis, test coordination, test approach, test specification and test execution. Additional creating a way of working (WOW) and place for document management (SharePoint) with respect to the CMMI program for achieving level 2 on Configuration Management (CM).

• Test Manager / Test Coordinator / Test Specialist - Renewal Bank Guarantees / TANGO (hired)

  • Oct 2008 - Apr 2010

  Amsterdam Area, Netherlands Test management, test planning, test approach, progress reporting, system testing, acceptance testing, End-to-End testing, test specification, test execution and defect management. Additional: Product presentations (ING Belgium), Trainer Operations, Testing of migrations and a additional project on document management and scanning (KOFAX + DOCUMENTUM) Test team size: 3 – 8 testers Domain expertise: Trade Finance and Guarantees



Capgemini

• France
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Test Manager / Test Coordinator / Test Specialist / Trainer

  • Jan 2010 - May 2011

  Utrecht Area, Netherlands Managing Consultant

• Test Consultant, Trainer, ExG, Core Team

  • Nov 2005 - May 2011

  Utrecht Area, Netherlands During his career, next to his assignments at the customers, Nicolai is also active within several “Expert Groups” en “Core Teams”. Within these groups his involved with knowledge sharing and development within the testing discipline. Also he was active as a trainer. Nicolai is in example one of the members that helped created the “Test Expertise Centrum (TEC)”. Also he was active on organizing and attending meetings and seminar (Testnet, Eurostar). As a trainer he was responsible for… Show more During his career, next to his assignments at the customers, Nicolai is also active within several “Expert Groups” en “Core Teams”. Within these groups his involved with knowledge sharing and development within the testing discipline. Also he was active as a trainer. Nicolai is in example one of the members that helped created the “Test Expertise Centrum (TEC)”. Also he was active on organizing and attending meetings and seminar (Testnet, Eurostar). As a trainer he was responsible for the training of multiple groups of Young (Test) Professionals and Test Awareness sessions.



Capgemini BAS B.V.

• Test manager / Test Coordinator / Test Specialist / Trainer

  • Dec 2008 - Dec 2009

  Apeldoorn



KPN

• Netherlands
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Test Coordinator / Test Specialist

  • Mar 2005 - Nov 2008

  Apeldoorn Fulfilled various roles in the test discipline including: - Test Coordinator - Test Specialist - Performance Tester

• Test Coordinator / Specialist - EBP/ARS (internal project)

  • Oct 2007 - Nov 2007

  Hilversum Area, Netherlands Test planning, test approach, system testing, acceptance testing, test specification, test execution, defect management, and review of design documents



Inspectie Verkeer en Waterstaat

• Government Administration
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Test Manager / Test Coordinator - GIT (hired)

  • Jul 2008 - Sep 2008

  The Hague Area, Netherlands Test management, test planning, test approach, progress reporting, acceptance testing, test specification, test execution and defect management. Additional creating a way and place for document management (SharePoint) and a review process since the project was working with 3 different vendors. Test team size: 2 testers



Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek

• Netherlands
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Test Coordinator / Test Specialist - HABR (hired)

  • Jan 2008 - Jul 2008

  Voorburg Area, Netherlands Test coordination, test planning, test approach, progress reporting, system testing, test specification, test execution, defect management (Rational Tooling). This was all executed in a project which was based on the iterative software development process: Rational Unified Process (RUP).



Belastingdienst

• Netherlands
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Test Coordinator / Performance Tester - DTS (hired)

  • Nov 2007 - Jun 2008

  Apeldoorn Area, Netherlands Test coordination, test planning, test approach, progress reporting, system testing, acceptance testing, test specification, test execution, defect management. Additional creating and executing a performance test (Borland Silk Performer).



Dienst Justitiële Inrichtingen (DJI)

• Netherlands
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Test Specialist - TULP selectie (hired)

  • Aug 2007 - Sep 2007

  Gouda Area, Netherlands System testing, test specification, test execution, defect management, review of design documents and conducted in test improvement activities.



UWV

• Netherlands
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Test Specialist - WWO (hired)

  • Aug 2005 - Jul 2007

  Amsterdam Area, Netherlands System testing, test specification (formal test techniques), test execution, defect management and formal reviews on impact analysis and functional designs. Additional conducted an end-to-end (chain) test and test improvement activities.



Inspectie Verkeer en Waterstaat

• Government Administration
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Test Specialist - TRIM (hired)

  • Jul 2005 - Jul 2005

  The Hague Area, Netherlands Functional acceptance testing, test specification (use-case testing), test execution, defect management and document management applications.



Postbank

• Banking
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Test Specialist Girofoon (hired)

  • Mar 2005 - Jun 2005

  Amsterdam Area, Netherlands System testing, test specification (formal test techniques), test execution, defect management (Mercury Quality Centre) and reviews of functional designs.



Getronics

• Netherlands
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Test Specialist

  • Feb 2005 - Mar 2005

  Apeldoorn Joined through a "Master class Testing" and started as a Test Specialist.