Karl Tiirik
Quality Engineering Competency Lead at Bigbank
Tartu, Estonia
Summary
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Top SchoolKarl Tiirik is a Quality Engineering leader with 11 years of experience helping organizations raise testing capabilities, currently driving test strategy and cross-team end-to-end coverage as Quality Engineering Competency Lead at Bigbank. He combines hands-on test automation expertise (API, UI, CI/CD pipelines) with tooling and process work—having built frameworks and deployment flows using Kotlin, Python, Groovy, Docker, Jenkins/GitLab pipelines, and reporting tools like Allure and ReportPortal. Karl has led test automation teams at Nortal and improved platform-wide quality practices at Testlio, often stepping in as the sole QA to define release and incident procedures in fast-moving product teams. He values autonomy, continuous learning and finds motivation in uncovering subtle, hard-to-find defects through exploratory testing and strong QA craftsmanship. Based in Tartu with an MSc in Computer Software Engineering, he pairs academic rigor with practical delivery and a track record of enabling reliable, repeatable testing in both startup and enterprise contexts.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Software Engineering at Tartu Ülikool / University of Tartu
Estonian, English, German
Github Skills (22)
cucumber-jvm9
spock9
allure9
extentreports9
selenium-java8
testng8
automation-testing8
android-database6
java-client6
java6
testing6
integrations5
cucumber5
test-reporting5
test-automation-framework4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
karltiirik/spock-restassured-allure
Oct 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:24 PRs, 60 pushes, 14 branches in 2 years
Test-Government/SID-mock
Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:22 reviews, 28 commits, 20 PRs in 5 months
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