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Over 7 years ago
I fully agree with Zubin After doing two PoC’s with COTS tools, we came to the conclusion that our JIRA and ALM projects used too many blueprints and templates. Almost every project use their own custom fields and workflows, and therefore it would simply take far too much…
Almost 8 years ago
Hi Matthew Thanks for your response. I noticed I wasn't clear on my concerns. I added a few lines in my post. I'll explain some further: if ALM receives a 10 new defects from JIRA and 10 user stories, these entities don't have relations with a release, sprint, test cases,…
Almost 8 years ago
Synchronizing data between JIRA and ALM is one thing. I think TaskTop and ConnectALL and all other tools can do the trick. In the coming weeks we will do some PoC's to prove the sync. I am worried about something else though: to use the data in ALM, we need relations (like…

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Over 7 years ago
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites
Almost 8 years ago
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites
Almost 8 years ago
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites

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Rob Smit, Agile Coach,Test Architect, Testconsultant, Testmanager, Test Tool Consultant/ - Engineer

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I am an all round Test professional, with well developed skills in many roles like E2E/ Chain Test Manager, Test Tool Consultant, Test Manager, Test Consultant, Safe certified Practitioner, Scrum Master and Nexus Engineer.

I have broad experience in developing Managed Test Services, setting up Test Centres, implementing Test Policy and Test Tool Framework-design.

I design and build automated Test Tool Frameworks in ALM/UFT, JMeter, Selenium, Robot framework.
I am an Agile coach, helping project setting up Agile, Scrum, CD/CI (pipeline tooling, Jenkins2).

Qualifications
- Experience in a broad range of Test Roles: tester, coordinator, manager, consultant, line manager, developer, engineer, architect, writer, researcher, author, coach and lecturer.
- Experience with successfully managing all aspects of a large Centre of Excellence Testing Services, including selecting, managing and training staff; developing and managing Managed Testing Services, budgeting and establishing and monitoring CoE-TS goals.
- Experience in managing Onshore-Offshore projects; acceptance testing and setting up Test Infrastructure in combination with third parties.
- Experienced technical tester with programming skills in most modern test tools.
- Experience in implementing Test Management Tools and automated testing in large organizations (ING, Dutch Tax).
- Analytical, good communicator. Creative mind, proven leadership.
- Permanent focus on success and good teamwork.
- Experienced Test Manager in large organizations, used to set up complex test processes
- Experienced manager in setting up and maintenance of Test Infra Structure