Since a few years I keep notes on a regular monthly base to remind me of achievements and successes. This in turn can helps in salary discussions and personal reflections. Its human to forget, what one did a couple of month ago.

Achievements and successes 2022

Organisational Quality
Expertise: Exchange and support for a Salesforce XXX project
Expertise: Exchange and support for a Salesforce YYY substitution project
Expertise: Exchange and support for a project at CEO level
Expertise: Concepting, defining and pitching the organisational and work model for a brand new project
Expertise: Establishing, supporting, and coaching an operational test manager for an internal 150+ people white-label project
Expertise: Concepting and coaching improvements to shorten the feedback loop in improving quality for an internal project

Brand awareness (internal & external)
Competence Center: Achieved first commitments from directors to build up seven people as potential speakers
Competence Center: Increased public presence (ca. 18 colleagues attending conferences in Europe)
Competence Center: Internal team won 1st prize in a public European competition 
Competence Center: Established a regular public blog contribution with tester colleagues
Competence Center: Established a regular social media presence of tester colleagues

New concept: “Company values in daily work life” in Unit and Townhall meetings
New concept: Icebreaker (Speed Dating) in Unit and Townhall meetings
New concept: Created, organised, and executed the 1st European Test Automation Challenge
New concept: Established a format “Exchange time” for a monthly Competence Center community event
New concept:  Established monthly curated newsletter for events

Speaker: Gave a talk at the German Bremen university to Informatics students
Speaker: Gave a talk within the company about testing VR systems (Inject Session)
Speaker: Gave a talk at the company hosted event within the Portuguese tester community
Speaker: Gave a workshop about Ethics in Testing at an international conference (Nordic Testing Days)

Sponsoring: Represented and increased the awareness of the company at the Annual European Barcamp for Quality and Testing (“QS-Barcamp”)

Cost saving: Showcased an automation solution to IT Security, which would reduce a task from ca. 2-3 days to 4h

Diversity: Suggested name giving for room location for Hamburg Office with “Women in Tech” names
Diversity: Inspired colleagues, who suggested a new naming convention for releases, based on women in tech

Cross-Collaboration
New concept: Created and established the “CCCN – Combined Competence Center Newsletter” for all Competence Centers
Product Owner: Invited to facilitate an AR project within the Mobile Competence Center Hackathon
Expertise: Supported Frontend colleagues with blog post reviews and suggestion for follow up blog posts
Marketing: Established myself as (testing) service touch point for all questions and initiatives for marketing and external agencies

Partner management
First exchange and connection to Moolya (Testing specialists, India)
First exchange and connection to Inspired Testing (Testing specialists, Netherlands)
First exchange and connection to REPL Group, Part of Accenture (Global, all disciplines)
First exchange and connection to RocketLab (Testing specialists, Swiss)
First exchange and connection to iSyst (Testing specialists, Germany)

Recruiting
Established and first exchange with potential candidates (6+ potentials, 1st starts in January 2023)

Knowledge
Evaluated, organised, and invited external speaker for an internal presentation session with a CARIAD topic
Evaluated, organised, and executed a modern training with an accomplished CEO for the company (Holistic Testing with Alex Schladebeck)

Within my first 2 months in 2021:

Brand awareness (internal & external)
Community: Established the connection within the Portuguese tester communities (Porto, Lisboa)
Speaker: Gave a talk within the Portuguese tester community (Porto, Lisboa, ..)

Partner management
First exchange and connection to EPAM company (Global, all disciplines, 60k+ employees)