Hugo Josefson
Senior Web Consultant at IKEA
Malmo, Skåne County, Sweden
Summary
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RockstarHugo Josefson is a Senior Web Consultant and full-stack web server/client developer with 17 years of experience, based in Malmö and currently working at Devoteam and as a Software Architect on IKEA’s Survey Orchestration. He blends hands-on engineering with a strong testing and QA mindset—contributing to notable open-source projects like i18next and Robotium by extending test suites and improving Android UI testing utilities. Hugo has a track record of shaping robust, production-grade systems in finance and telco contexts (Telia Pay, Telia Finance) and supporting DevOps practices during consultancy engagements. Curious and collaborative by nature, he prioritizes knowledge sharing and pragmatic solutions that surface tricky edge cases before they reach production.
17 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (23)
uitest10
javascript10
rails-i18n10
javadoc10
android-gui10
testing10
android-test10
internationalization10
java10
robot10
javas10
ember-i18n10
i18n-js10
ui-testing10
test-automation10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
RobotiumTech/robotium
Dec 2009 - Oct 2010
Android UI Testing
Role in this project:
Test Automation Engineer
Test Automation EngineerContributions:195 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Hugo primarily focused on improving the Robotium framework, which is designed for Android UI testing. Their contributions involved enhancing existing methods by clarifying their Javadoc, as well as adding support for finding views in Dialogs. They also fixed dependency injection, and corrected drag and other methods.
android-uitestingandroidkotlinui-testing
i18next/i18next
May 2012 - Sep 2012
i18next: learn once - translate everywhere
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Hugo focused on extending the test suite for the i18next library. They added new tests for features related to options and nested options within the `.i18n()` function. Their contributions involved writing JavaScript tests, modifying existing test files, and verifying the correct behavior of i18next's translation capabilities, particularly when handling different configuration options. The testing focused on ensuring the library correctly handles nested options for interpolation.
flexibilitytranslationjavascripti18nextinternationalization
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