Olli Ruotsalainen
Senior Project Manager at Insta
Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolOlli Ruotsalainen is a Senior Project Manager and seasoned QA/automation leader with 11+ years of hands-on experience building test automation, CI pipelines, and dependable software delivery practices across embedded, mobile and enterprise systems. He blends deep technical expertise (framework design, scripting, Nightwatch.js e2e tests) with people leadership—recruiting, coaching and managing cross-cultural teams—and has progressed from developer roles to senior management. Olli has led QA and product efforts in IoT and data exchange projects, contributing front-end UI tests to the widely used X-Road data exchange codebase. Comfortable with change, he actively pursues continuous learning through university studies and varied international experience, including seven years living abroad. Known for translating complex technical needs into practical team-driven processes, he equally enjoys integrating tooling into smooth pipelines and shaping a productive team culture.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Embedded Systems. Minor subjects: Industrial Management Languages (German and English), Master’s Degree Embedded Systems. Minor subjects: Industrial Management Languages (German and English) at Tampere University of Technology 1965-2018Master’s Degree Economics. Minor subjects: Accounting Statistics Asian Studies, Master’s Degree Economics. Minor subjects: Accounting Statistics Asian Studies at University of Tampere 1925-2018M.Econ Macroeconomics, M.Econ Macroeconomics at Kasetsart UniversityHigh School Abitur, High School Abitur at Pirkkalan YhteislukioM.Sc. Computer Science, M.Sc. Computer Science at University of Stuttgart
English, German, Swedish, Russian, Japanese, French, Thai, Finnish
Github Skills (10)
uitest10
e2e-testing10
javascript10
xpath10
ui-testing10
nightwatch10
test-automation10
e2e-test10
css-selectors9
front-end-development8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
nordic-institute/X-Road
Apr 2019 - Apr 2021
Source code of the X-Road® data exchange layer software
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Front-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:8 reviews, 135 commits, 45 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Olli primarily contributed to the front-end user interface (UI) testing for the X-Road® data exchange layer software. Their commits focused on creating and modifying end-to-end (e2e) tests using Nightwatch.js, covering login, clients list, client details, and local groups features. The code changes involved implementing test scenarios, updating page object models (POMs), and verifying UI elements and functionalities within the application.
data-exchangeintegrationexchangecqlroad
olliru/tuni-swtest-testgroup
Nov 2020 - Dec 2020
COMP.SE.200-2020 course work
Contributions:14 PRs, 12 pushes, 8 branches in 1 month
course-workjavascriptcomp
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