Bram Verbinnen

Operations Manager for the Media Quality Services department at Eurofins Digital Testing
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(386) 825-5501
Location
Antwerp Metropolitan Area
Languages
  • Dutch Native or bilingual proficiency
  • English Professional working proficiency
  • French Elementary proficiency

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Credentials

  • ISTQB - BCS Certified Tester Advanced Level, Test
    ISTQB - International Software Testing Qualifications Board
    Nov, 2017
    - Nov, 2024
  • LPI - Linux Essentials
    LPI
    Jan, 2016
    - Nov, 2024
  • ISTQB - BCS Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL)
    ISTQB - International Software Testing Qualifications Board
    Jul, 2013
    - Nov, 2024
  • Master of Science
    Katholieke Hogeschool Kempen
    Feb, 2013
    - Nov, 2024

Experience

    • United Kingdom
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Operations Manager for the Media Quality Services department
      • Jan 2021 - Present

    • Operational lead of the MQS department
      • Sep 2019 - Jan 2021

    • Agile coach & transformations @Liberty Global on behalf of
      • Nov 2019 - Mar 2020

      Worked on restructuring the blueprint team 80 FTE in order to evolve in a more agile way of working. Introducing the feature team concept over the entire team and aligned the testing scope of different integration teams even outside of the BP team. In a first phase this was defining the new way of working and aligning with the different stakeholders. In a second phase this was followed by giving a series of classroom trainings to the different target audiences of the teams. Thefinal phase was coaching the different teams/roles in there day to day activities.

    • Release Manager for the HZN4 blueprint Team @ Liberty Global on behalf of
      • Jun 2018 - Nov 2019

      Used my knowledge about the project and the testing in order to release the SW in the first country. Main tasks, defect management, version management, hot-fix testing, HE and FE update scheduling, defect analysis with different parties.

    • Test Manager for the HZN4 blueprint Team @ Liberty Global
      • Jan 2017 - Jul 2018

      Involved from the beginning of the project to setup and define the test structure and philosophy, and gradually updated that one with changes that were done in the project structure. Evolving from a more waterfall method to a more agile WoW.At the start it was hands on with a team of 5 and that grew until a team of approximately 25 FTE. Where there was a mix of experienced integration/feature testers and regression testers where automation was part of the team.

    • E2E Test Coordinator/Manager for the Horizon 4 Project. "DAWN"
      • Feb 2016 - Jan 2017

      Day to day coordination of the testing team for the HZN4 program. Team existed out of testers in the different affiliates(3) and my own testing team (8).Defining/updating the scope for testing based on changing release dates was one of the major tasks. Since the project was in an end fase we constantly needed to change our test scope in order to cover the right areas. Important role in discussion the open defects and driving them down in order to end up with a releasable product.

    • Poland
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Software Test Analyst for the Horizon 4 Project.
      • Jul 2015 - Jan 2016

      Evoluted to test analyst within the same project.* Requirement analysis* Test Case creation for the new look and feel of horizon 4

    • Integration Test Engineer for the DAWN iSTB
      • Jan 2014 - Jun 2015

      I'm involved in the integration and software testing of the next generation iSTB on client site at Telenet for Liberty Global.My main tasks at that moment are Integration and software testing of the Set-Top box including: Smoke-, regression- and exploratory test execution.Translating functional and non functional requirements into Test Cases.Updating and reworking available testcases.Bug reporting. (& back-up for bug manager)On side field support back-up for Poland

    • Junior Test Engineer
      • Mar 2013 - Jan 2014

      * Involved in the CI+ iDTV/CAM Certification Program for different European digital cable providers like Telenet, LGI (UPC, UPC-DTH), Unitymedia, Kabel Deutschland. Execution of test cases, writing new test cases and updating older ones, maintaining and updating of the DVB-C test network.* Set-Top box test execution.

    • Belgium
    • Broadcast Media
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Internship Student
      • Sep 2012 - Jan 2013

      Writing a thesis to provide data to a digital signage screen with DVB-T. Writing a thesis to provide data to a digital signage screen with DVB-T.

Education

  • Hoger Instituut Der Kempen
    Specific teacher education
    2013 - 2014
  • Katholieke Hogeschool Kempen
    Master of Science (MS), Industrial Engineering, Electronics
    2007 - 2013
  • Katholieke Hogeschool Kempen
    Bachelor of Science (BS), Industrial Engineering
    2007 - 2012
  • Technisch Instituut Scheppers
    Electrical and Electronics Engineering
    2003 - 2007

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