Summary
Christian Bantel is a Quality Assurance Engineer with 10 years of experience building and leading QA efforts across industry and infrastructure-focused companies, currently driving quality at 50Hertz Transmission in Germany. He progressed from hands-on test engineering and Selenium validation to managing QA teams and test strategy at Deutsche Bahn Connect, blending software development experience with test automation expertise. Christian has a strong background in creating practical testing frameworks (including a Rails-based Cucumber framework during internships) and a track record of shipping reliable systems in regulated, high-availability environments. Based in Halle (Saale), he combines a pragmatic, learning-first mindset with applied engineering skills from his Business Information Systems degree, making him as comfortable writing test code as aligning QA with business needs. Notably, his career shows a pattern of moving from tactical tooling and automation into strategic QA leadership roles, reflecting both technical depth and organizational impact.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Business Information Systems, Bachelor's degree Business Information Systems at The Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg
German, English, Russian