Robert Oskamp
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Elastic
Oranienburg, Brandenburg, Germany
Summary
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RockstarRobert Oskamp is a Senior Software Engineering Manager at Elastic with eight years of experience advancing QA and engineering practices across the Elastic Stack. He progressed through technical QA roles into management, leading efforts to stabilize functional tests and reduce flakiness—work visible in contributions to the high-profile open-source kibana repository. Based in Oranienburg, Germany, he combines hands-on test automation expertise with people leadership to improve reliability for ML-related services and complex feature sets. Known for pragmatic fixes—adding retries, tuning timeouts, and removing environment-specific assertions—he balances product quality with delivery speed. Colleagues rely on him to translate flaky tests into actionable engineering improvements and scalable test services.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (9)
javascript10
test-automation10
amazon-elasticsearch9
elasticsearch-api9
aws-elasticsearch9
elasticsearchquery9
elasticsearch9
machine-learning8
ml8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/kibana
Apr 2019 - Nov 2022
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:1190 reviews, 429 commits, 945 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Robert's commits focus on stabilizing functional tests within the Kibana project. They addressed stability issues by adding retries, increasing timeouts, and omitting environment-specific assertions. Their work involved modifying functional test services and apps related to Machine Learning (ML), ensuring test reliability and addressing flakiness issues. Specific files modified include those in the x-pack test directory.
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
pheyos/elastic-stack-testing
May 2020 - Jan 2024
Elastic Stack Testing Framework (ESTF)
Contributions:17 pushes, 27 branches in 3 years 7 months
testing-frameworkelastictestingelasticsearchelastic-stack
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