Marie Nilsson

Om Marie

Learning new things is one of the things that drive me the most. Curious is my middle name. I like working together with others towards common goals as a team.

Maries CV

• Skånetrafiken

  Program BA

  2021 -

  Marie is a business analyst for the program and her focus is on creating requirements for all the development teams. Besides the BA role, she is also part of the program team that owns and operates this program from the IT side of Skånetrafiken. Here her role, together with others, is to set and plan the entire scope of the program, as well as drive the planning toward the development teams in an agile way. Parts from both the Agile way of working as well as SAFe are used.

• Skånetrafiken

  QA Responsible

  2019 - 2020

  As QA responsible Marie was responsible for requirements, tests, and releases.
  
  Marie’s had a combined role as Agile PO/Business Analyst, Test Leader, and Release Manager in the Las Vegas team at Skånetrafiken. Here she wrote the requirements, Features, and User Stories, organized the backlog, planned the test activities, and decided what to release and when.
  
  The Las Vegas team developed four different clients/applications for Kundcenter, Ticket vending machines, Retail, and for busses. All with the main purpose to sell tickets to Skånetrafikens customers. The team worked agile, first according to scrum but later we went over to Kanban.

• Volvo Groupe

  ISQ analysis

  2019 - 2019

  Marie together with a colleague performed an ISQ Analysis at one of the departments at Volvo Groupe. This was done to find out what was done well and what could be improved.

• Alfa Laval

  Test Manager

  2017 - 2018

  Test Manager PeoplePro.
  Marie was Test Manager in a Project that was implementing WorkDay, an HR system at Alfa Laval. Her reasonabilities were to plan, execute and follow up function tests, business tests, integration, and E2E tests.

• IKEA IT

  Team Lead, Product Owner and Scrum Master

  2016 - 2017

  In her combined role as Team Lead, Product Owner, and Scrum Master in the CLMS Business Support Team at IKEA Marie did all of the planning for the team, both in the planned sprint activities as well as time allocations for the different activities. She defined all the stories for the Business Support team, and I prioritize the story (PI and Sprint) backlog. She also defined some of the features for the whole CLM Project and I was part of the feature team that prioritized the features according to WSJF.
  
  In the time remaining, she also did Business Support in CLM, i.e. I help the users with how to work with the tool and day-to-day questions. She guided new projects into the tool by helping them with processes, Ways of Working, and training sessions.

• IKEA IT

  CLM Coach at CLM Business Support

  2016 - 2016

  Marie worked with business support for Rational CLM at IKEA AB, which means supporting users and new projects in how to use Rational CLM in the project’s life cycle.
  She guided new projects into the tool by helping them with processes, Ways of Working, and training sessions. Marie also helped the users with how to work with the tool, day-to-day problems they, and questions.

• Safegate Group AB

  Business Analyst

  2014 - 2015

  Marie's role in this assignment was to define the requirement process and strategy for the project and the product, to produce and write requirements, UML diagrams, and flow charts, to validate requirements, and to coordinate test activities. She also did and investigates suitable requirement tools.

• Cloudfinder

  Test Manager

  2013 - 2013

  Marie’s assignment at Cloudfinder was to set up the test process and test scope and then to create and execute tests throughout the project. This was a 50% assignment.

• Securitas Sverige AB

  Test Lead/Senior Test Engineer

  2013 - 2014

  As Test Lead within the project, Marie run the test process, coordinated the users from the organization when testing, and performed acceptance testing herself. She provided coaching to the users on how to test, when and how to create error reports when to retest and what to retest. She handles communication with the project leader and the developing team.

• Cerdo Bankpartner

  Test Manager

  2013 - 2013

  As Test Manager in this project, Marie planned the testing activities, documented, and coordinated the testing activities. She also created and followed up on error reports and reporting. This was a 50% assignment

• Stratiteq Sweden AB

  Test Lead

  2012 - 2013

  As Test Lead in the project, Marie planned and executed the testing activities.
  
  My responsibility was to plan testing activities, determine which user stories to test and not to test, coordinate testing activities, execute tests, and create and follow up on error reports and reporting.

• E.ON Sverige

  Test Lead

  2011 - 2012

  Marie’s responsibility as a Test Leader within the project was to run the test process and coordinate and guide the users from the organization when testing.

• IKANO Bank SE

  Software Tester

  2010 - 2010

  As a tester within this project, Marie was responsible to test both the front- and back-end parts of the system. Testing was performed during development together with the end-users.

• Sony Ericsson

  Test Manager

  2009 - 2010

  As Test Lead, Marie’s responsibilities were to run the test process and everything around it regarding the application TrackID (a service in Sony Ericsson's mobile phones). She was in charge of the test process, how to test the product from delivery to Go Live, creating test cases, executing test cases, error reporting, error handling, interactions with other products or/and phone projects, and working within the scrum mythology.

• Sony Ericsson

  Software Tester

  2009 - 2009

  Marie’s responsibilities were to test the application TrackID. TrackID was a music recognition service that Sony Ericsson provided on their mobile phones. Testing activities such as examining the test results, verifying the response time and appearance, analyzing results, reporting bugs, creating test cases, and implementing different solutions for managing manual and automated testing were performed. Tests were done both on actual phones as well through a web simulation.

• System Verification

  Test Automation Engineer

  2009 - 2009

  SMART is a model-based automated testing tool that is created in-house at System Verification. Marie’s responsibilities were to develop, test, and come up with input on the tool. Since this was at the beginning of the development phase, here the main task was to make it as easy as possible to use for the end user.

• IKANO Bank SE

  Software Tester

  2008 - 2008

  As a tester, her responsibilities were to take over and execute tests on a newly developed database for IKANO Bank's leasing department.

• Sony Ericsson

  Software Tester

  2005 - 2007

  Her responsibilities as a System Tester consisted of maintaining and developing test specifications/scripts to verify the quality of the software during development and maintenance from a customer perspective.

Maries kompetensområden

• Roller

  Testare, Testledare, Kvalitetsansvarig, Produktägare

Maries anställningar

• IT Consultant, System Verification

  2008 - 2023

• IT Consultant, Ajilon/Adecco

  2005 - 2007

• Educator, Datortek Lindängen

  1999 - 2000

Maries utbildningar

• Leading SAFe 5.0, We Are Movement

  2021 - 2021

• Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM), Scrum Alliance

  2019 - 2019

• Certified Scrum Product Owner, Scrum Alliance

  2018 - 2018

• Workday HCM Foundation, Workday

  2017 - 2017

• Leading Safe 4.0, Sellegi Technologies AB

  2016 - 2016

• Accredited Lecturer for ISTQB Foundation, System Verification Sweden AB

  2014 - 2014

• Learning to Lead (L2L) – Internal leadership program, System Verification Sweden AB

  2014 - 2015

• REQB Foundation, System Verification Sweden AB

  2013 - 2013

• ISTQB Advanced Test Manager, System Verification Sweden AB

  2012 - 2012

• ISTQB Foundation, System Verification Sweden AB

  2009 - 2009

• Computer Science (Bachelor of Science), Malmö Högskola (Malmö)

  2001 - 2005

• UGL, Development of Group and Leadership

  2000 - 2000