Esa Heikkinen
Software Test Automation Engineer
Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland
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Top SchoolEsa Heikkinen is a seasoned software test automation engineer based in Tampere, Finland, with deep roots in embedded and distributed systems spanning three decades and a decade of focused professional experience. He builds robust test automation and CI/CD pipelines for safety- and defense-related products, skilled with Robot Framework, Qt Squish, Jenkins, Docker, RabbitMQ and Python, and fluent in C++ for AUTOSAR automotive domains. His background blends hands-on embedded development, IoT and real-time passenger information systems with academic research—he has driven log-file mining and complex event pattern analysis during doctoral work. Notably, Esa has taken systems from module-level test tools and CI concepts to production gateways and UI-enabled Linux devices, demonstrating a rare combination of low-level safety awareness and modern automation practices.
10 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Software systems digital signal processing learning systems, Master’s Degree Software systems digital signal processing learning systems at Tampere University of Technology 1965-2018Engineer B.Sc Information technology, Engineer B.Sc Information technology at Tampere University of Applied SciencesMechanic Radio- and TV-mechanic, Mechanic Radio- and TV-mechanic at Päijät-Hämeen ammattikouluDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Software Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Software Engineering at Tampereen teknillinen yliopisto
Finnish, English, Swedish
Github Skills (73)
opal10
ubuntu10
debian10
centos10
deb10
obs10
archlinux10
rpm10
distribute10
appimage10
fedora10
docker10
packaging10
kiwi10
opensuse10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
tiiuae/libsurvive
Apr 2021 - Feb 2022
Open Source Lighthouse Tracking System
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
risk-assessmentlighthousetracking
tiiuae/Fast-DDS-Gen
Apr 2021 - Feb 2022
Fast-DDS IDL code generator tool
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
fast-ddscode-generatorddsidlenums
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