Niko Cankar
Product Manager at Copado
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolNiko Cankar is a product manager with 11 years of experience building cloud-native SaaS and device-testing products from Helsinki, currently shaping product at Copado while running a consultancy that realigns backlog and strategy for faster delivery. He combines hands-on technical roots—MSc in EE/CS and a history of scripting, Java tooling and test automation—with product leadership across SmartBear/Bitbar, ICEYE and enterprise R&D teams. Niko is comfortable bridging customer requirements, technical sales and engineering, having driven Bitbar from reactive R&D to an enterprise-grade cloud solution and integrated it across SmartBear’s portfolio. His contributions to mobile and cross-platform test automation (visible in Bitbar sample repos) reflect a practical, QA-minded approach to product decisions. Known for turning metrics and customer service signals into roadmap priorities, he also recruits and structures teams to execute predictable roadmaps. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he enjoys solving technical problems himself when it helps unblock the team and accelerate outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Msc Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Msc Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolan
English, Slovenian, Finnish, French
Github Skills (9)
appium10
ios10
android10
javas8
java8
python8
xctest7
selenium5
selenium-ide5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bitbar/test-samples
Aug 2015 - Jul 2021
Sample test scripts and applications for Bitbar Cloud
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:178 commits, 61 PRs, 33 pushes in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Niko made several commits focused on modifying existing test scripts across Android and iOS platforms. Their work involved updating test scripts by changing project and sample app names, along with code adjustments and screenshots. The contributions show the user's work on test automation and verification of application behavior on various platforms.
bitbarbitbar-cloudbitbar-samplesappiumjava
aknackiron/testdroid-documentation
Feb 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:131 pushes, 21 branches in 1 year 1 month
testdroid
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