Albert H. Widmann

Experience

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  University of Leeds

  Feb 1996 - Jan 1998

  Research Associate

  Computer Simulation of charged particles on surfaces. Simulation of dendritic and hyperbranched Polymers, their synthesis and physical properties.@Interdisciplinary Research Centre (IRC) in Polymer Science and Technology

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  MatSim GmbH

  Jan 1998 - Jan 2002

  CTO and co-Founder

  Building up the startup company to develop software for simulating heterogeneous composite materials.

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  SIX Group Services AG

  May 2002 - Jan 2017

  Integration and test engineering of the application systems for SIX Financial Information AG.Leading a team of Test Engineers, Test Environment Managers and Test Managers for the quality delivery of software systems for financial data consumers.Providing test resources on-site and off-shore to development and support projects of SIX Financial Information and SIX Group Services. Specialist in Quality Assurance, Quality Management and Process Improvement Methodologies.Coaching and training of product owners, software developers and test engineers in quality topics and test methodologies.Senior Test Manager with extensive experience in outsourcing through off-shoring.Verification & Validation of Software Systems for providing financial information from and to the world in real time and as historic time series. Development leader for the testing support tools (test automation framework, test environment management, test data management) of the SWXess exchange platform.Test manager for high-performance trading applications.

  • Head of System Integration & E2E Testing

    Apr 2014 - Jan 2017

  • Head Quality Assurance and Control

    Aug 2010 - Mar 2014

  • Head Test Automation

    May 2002 - Jul 2010
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  Zurich Insurance Company Ltd

  Feb 2017 - now

  Test & Transition Management, Automation and Monitoring as part of IT Operations.IT Governance, particularly Data Protection (DSG, Datenschutzgesetz)Quality is my passion! Managing the Test Management within the new Test Governance of IT Projects of Zurich Switzerland

  • Head Quality Management

    Feb 2017 - now

  • Head Testing Factory

    Feb 2017 - Jun 2018