Alexander Waldmann Email & Phone Number

Germany

Framingham, Massachusetts, Us

Driving strong company growth through a team of 6 excellent solution consultants across EMEA, APAC, LatAm reporting into our Chief Growth Officer, maximizing value for our customers by partnering with our direct sales team to ensure optimal solution fit. Focused on Automotive sector, Artificial intelligence/GenAI, UX and Security.Analyzing the competitive situation in the market, anticipate testing trends, develop refined insights for International GTM levers and future International enablement needs/opportunities. Leading Enterprise Change in International GTM, anticipating the need for change to improve business performance and champion it throughout the organization.GTM Team Performance Management: Shape the SC and GTM teams business processes and systems to manage and execute against team performance indicators, manage/inspect/govern activity to ensure expected results and behaviors

Framingham, Massachusetts, Us

Framingham, Massachusetts, Us

Framingham, Massachusetts, Us

Leading the security testing practice globally for crowd-sourced penetration testing engagements (private managed bug bounties).Managing the security business in a cross-functional process together with sales, delivery and community management:- The Security Product offering, product market fit, business development and market expansion - Evaluating technology partnerships, vendor selection - Sales engineering, identifying security testing needs and customizing security testing strategy- Risk assessments / Threat modeling- Leading globally distributed testing teams of white hat pentesters- Remediation strategies, consulting & training of developers

Framingham, Massachusetts, Us

Supplying a fast growing business with the right tools to support and extend the product portfolio with a focus on operational efficiency. Driving community growth, retention and engagement by partnering with the community management and delivery team to help them engage the best candidates from a large international and constantly evolving community of 450,000+ QA professionals.Shipping incremental value each sprint while driving a long-term holistic product vision balancing the conflicting needs from community management, delivery managers and the community of testers itself who are all looking to achieve the same ultimate goal: higher quality digital experiences for Applause customers.Managing the workstreams of up to 5 globally distributed scrum teams across ET, CET, IDT timezones.As part of a world class product organization within Applause I've- Redefined the new tester registration and onboarding processes to drive community growth- Built new suite of software to define desired test coverage and monitor and manage testing progress improving ability to deliver while also focusing on the tester experience, taking the edge off of the intense competition between the testers to improve results quality -Designed ML backed rating algorithms to pick the right candidates with the right past behaviour and expected performance for each testing project together with the data science team. Driving tester engagement and stimulating the right behaviour via modifications to existing gamification elements and ratings.- Designed and shipped the future of tester selection in a tester recommendation engine for the company. The new holistic tester matching system pairs testers with diverse skills, limited time and varying economical factors with project needs which improves the delivery speed while controlling cost which in turn benefits Applause customers that can ship their product faster.

Framingham, Massachusetts, Us

As product owner for the community applications I helped build the next generation crowd sourced testing platform SaaS. We constantly strive to improve the output from the tester community of over 450,000 QA professionals worldwide by providing them with quality tools & instruments they need to excel in their discipline.Testing is an art and testers need the right challenges and tools to generate the uncomparable value from in-the-wild-testing that our customers are looking for to achieve 360° app quality. We are pushing hard with the entire team to make sure Applause will always be the best community for a good tester to grow alongside their professional peers and delight our customers.

Framingham, Massachusetts, Us

Full-stack engineer (Java, Hibernate, JSMVC) leading the implementation of improvements for the "uTest" tester interface and application logic to better support turnaround time for crowd-based quality assurance projects.Driving interface and backend enhancements to improve performance and fully support day-to-day workflows of community members, fully integrated with the engineering team in Framingham, in continuous coordination with Israel and Poland engineering teams.

Founder, chief executive officer of the netcorps GmbH. Full service provider for IT Consulting, Usabilty Consulting, Software Development, Security Testing & Consulting.I built my company providing solution oriented consulting for online ecommerce and service platforms through a strong network of freelancers and technology partners. Focused on delivering high quality, easy to maintain software solutions. The service portfolio covers the entire process of strategically planning, prototyping, designing, testing and releasing software products that solve our customers business challenges. We are following a user-centered design approach. Backed by continuous crowdtesting of the applications for functional bugs as well as usability testing in-the-wild. We mix that with professional reviews and concepts by usability experts and penetration testing of the applications by security experts.

Dedicated nearly a decade as Senior Web Developer Frontend focused on a user centered design process to drive innovation in the dusty enterprise content management space.My roles with Optimal Systems, leading Enterprise Content Management (ECM) System manufacturer, included quality assurance, software development, project management for our ECM web application and UX & interface design across our product suites tightly coupled with product management efforts.- Rebuilt the QA process from the ground up through introducing a competitive in-house web app solution for test case management- Pushed continuous development of our ECM web applications across 5 major releases- Project lead in our effort to overhaul legacy technology web clients introducing sleek new interfaces based on a hybrid AngularJS/jQuery solutions giving users a rich client experience on the web.- Usability evangelist, driving concept creation for desktop and web clients to embed innovative concepts and ensuring best possible user experience through a user centered design process

- Blackbox Testing of Web- and Mobile-Apps- Usability Consulting- Vulnerability Assessment / Manual Penetration Testing (Security Testing)

Framingham, Massachusetts, Us

- Functional & Localization & Security testing of web, desktop, mobile apps- Blackbox testing and code reviews for web and mobile applications- Vulnerability assessment, manual penetration testing (security testing)- Usability consulting

Tutorial an der Freien Universität Berlin für die Vorlesung XML-TechnologienAusarbeiten neuer Übungszettel / Klausuren, Tutorial-Präsentationen

Freelance Frontend (Javascript) Developer

Driving the development of the most expansive, detailed information platform on organic produce for consumers in germany, switzerland and austria (D-A-CH region) as founder & CTO until the sucessful exit in 2006.Through a simple, user friendly web interface with innovative search capabilities, including specific allergene filtering mechanisms we enabled consumers to get all information on certified organic produce including seasonal food recommendations, recipe databases, and the largest consumer friendly retailer databasein germany.

Diplom (Eq. Msc Computer Science), Informatik

Education record

University Entrance Diploma, Computer Science