Senior Testing Specialist. Test leadership with hands-on automation.

Experience

Timeline of roles and responsibilities

1. Dec 2022 – Present

   Senior Test Automation Specialist

   Fennoa

   Responsible for designing and evolving automated testing solutions for mobile and backend systems while improving CI/CD-driven quality practices.

   • Ownership of mobile end-to-end and API test automation using Robot Framework and Appium
   • Integration of automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to support continuous delivery
   • Contributing to browser and API automation solutions and improving test reliability
   • Participating in test strategy and coverage planning for critical system workflows
   • Collaborating closely with developers and product owners to improve testability and quality readiness

   Key contributions

   • Architected mobile E2E automation framework supporting Android and iOS across multiple device and OS combinations
   • Designed and built E2E automation suite covering ~90% of critical application workflows
   • Implemented custom coverage metrics measuring UI flow coverage and API endpoint usage during test execution

   PythonRobot FrameworkAppiumAzure DevOpsGitHub ActionsCypressJavaScript

2. May 2018 – Dec 2022

   Test Lead

   Cloubi (part of Otava Group)

   Led the quality assurance strategy and testing practices for a digital learning platform, building the testing approach and automation ecosystem from the ground up.

   • Defined testing strategy, QA practices and system-level testing processes
   • Designed automation architecture for web, API and performance testing; acted as product owner for test automation
   • Integrated automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous delivery
   • Led day-to-day testing activities and mentored QA team members
   • Collaborated with developers and product owners to improve system testability

   Key contributions

   • Implemented automated smoke tests validating production releases immediately after deployment
   • Designed pull-request test environments executing automated E2E tests for early defect detection
   • Introduced performance testing practices after early scalability issues, improving release reliability

   PythonRobot FrameworkPlaywrightCypressJenkinsGatlingDockerTerraformAWS

3. Jun 2016 – May 2018

   Test Engineer

   Soikea (Etteplan)

   Delivered testing and test automation solutions across multiple client projects involving integration-heavy systems and cloud services.

   • Designed and implemented automated system-level tests
   • Performed test planning, execution and defect analysis
   • Worked with distributed development teams and complex integration environments

   PythonRobot FrameworkSeleniumAzureSOAP APIs

4. Jul 2006 – Nov 2015

   Test Engineer

   uNav / Atheros / Qualcomm

   Executed system testing and test automation for GNSS positioning software in large-scale, mission-critical products.

   • Maintained automated test environments including test benches and lab equipment
   • Worked extensively with embedded Linux devices, including Personal Navigation Devices, phones and development boards
   • Designed satellite simulation scenarios for system validation
   • Coordinated testing activities with international development teams

   Perl.NET C#Embedded Linux

Education

Education & certificates

Capabilities

Leadership, testing depth, and delivery acceleration

Selected work

Showroom highlights

Mobile Testing Framework with Appium and Robot Framework

• Problem: Mobile UI test suites tend to mix Robot syntax with implementation details, making scenarios hard to read and automation logic hard to reuse.
• Approach: Built a five-layer framework — Robot suites → step library → page objects → action helpers → shared driver context — that keeps Robot thin and pushes all implementation into Python modules.
• Outcome: Scenarios stay business-readable while the automation code is reusable and maintainable, with clean separation of concerns validated against a real Android app (CoMaps) via Appium and UiAutomator2.
• Link: Open project

Robot Framework Result Analysis AI

• Problem: Robot Framework failures often produce long logs that slow down triage and make root-cause analysis expensive.
• Approach: Runs Robot tests, extracts failed cases, adds Playwright trace context when available, redacts common secrets, and sends structured context to OpenAI.
• Outcome: Generates actionable JSON triage reports with failure type, confidence, likely root cause, retry guidance, and categorized fix suggestions for CI workflows.
• Link: Open project

Appium Agent Tools for VS Code

• Problem: Mobile test automation usually means context switching between scripts, inspectors, and manual device poking, which slows down feedback loops.
• Approach: Built a TypeScript VS Code extension that exposes 7 GitHub Copilot-callable Appium tools (start/stop session, find, tap, type, screenshot, page source) over raw W3C WebDriver HTTP.
• Outcome: Enables prompt-driven Android UI automation directly in VS Code, with saved screenshot/XML artifacts that make debugging and bug reports faster and repeatable.
• Link: Open project