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Hello, I’m Ari Erkkilä. I have been working in testing and quality assurance since October 2001, delivering testing leadership and hands-on testing across Banking, Telecommunications and Trading domains. I excel at coordinating multiple modules, building robust test strategies, and driving early defect detection while collaborating closely with stakeholders and cross-functional teams. I’m a quick learner who thrives on teamwork, adaptability, and customer focus. I’m motivated to improve quality, automate repetitive tasks where possible, and communicate testing progress clearly to project and business partners.…Hello, I’m Ari Erkkilä. I have been working in testing and quality assurance since October 2001, delivering testing leadership and hands-on testing across Banking, Telecommunications and Trading domains. I excel at coordinating multiple modules, building robust test strategies, and driving early defect detection while collaborating closely with stakeholders and cross-functional teams. I’m a quick learner who thrives on teamwork, adaptability, and customer focus. I’m motivated to improve quality, automate repetitive tasks where possible, and communicate testing progress clearly to project and business partners.

Ari Erkkilä

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Hello, I’m Ari Erkkilä. I have been working in testing and quality assurance since October 2001, delivering testing leadership and hands-on testing across Banking, Telecommunications and Trading domains. I excel at coordinating multiple modules, building robust test strategies, and driving early defect detection while collaborating closely with stakeholders and cross-functional teams. I’m a quick learner who thrives on teamwork, adaptability, and customer focus. I’m motivated to improve quality, automate repetitive tasks where possible, and communicate testing progress clearly to project and business partners.…Hello, I’m Ari Erkkilä. I have been working in testing and quality assurance since October 2001, delivering testing leadership and hands-on testing across Banking, Telecommunications and Trading domains. I excel at coordinating multiple modules, building robust test strategies, and driving early defect detection while collaborating closely with stakeholders and cross-functional teams. I’m a quick learner who thrives on teamwork, adaptability, and customer focus. I’m motivated to improve quality, automate repetitive tasks where possible, and communicate testing progress clearly to project and business partners.

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Hello, I’m Ari Erkkilä. I have been working in testing and quality assurance since October 2001, delivering testing leadership and hands-on testing across Banking, Telecommunications and Trading domains. I excel at coordinating multiple modules, building robust test strategies, and driving early defect detection while collaborating closely with stakeholders and cross-functional teams.

I’m a quick learner who thrives on teamwork, adaptability, and customer focus. I’m motivated to improve quality, automate repetitive tasks where possible, and communicate testing progress clearly to project and business partners.

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Work Experience

Test Manager at Cognizant

July 1, 2023 - Present

Coordinated testing activities across integrated modules, managed the testing team in Azure DevOps, prepared Test Strategy documents, and reported testing progress to stakeholders.

Embedded Test Engineer at Cognizant

January 1, 2023 - June 1, 2023

Performed credit card interface testing with SoapUI; conducted embedded testing with ReadyAPI/SoapUI and automation with Git/Jenkins; wrote Groovy-based test assertions; prepared automation tests from requirement documents.

Test Engineer / Test Manager at Cognizant

September 1, 2018 - September 1, 2022

Test Engineer and Test Manager for SWIFT messages and Contact Center platform; prepared test cases based on requirement documents; manual test execution; incident reporting in HP ALM and Jira.

Test Manager / Test Engineer at Cognizant

January 1, 2017 - June 1, 2018

Test Manager / Test Engineer for middleware banking software; prepared Test Plan; managed testing activities in HP ALM; validated data flows from sourcing systems to the application; created test cases in Quality Center; manual testing; incident reporting in ALM and Jira; HP ALM reporting; automation using UFT.

Test Manager at EPAM Systems

July 1, 2016 - December 1, 2016

Test Manager for middleware banking software; prepared Test Plan; managed testing activities in HP ALM; tested data flows; created test cases; manual testing; incident reporting in ALM and Jira; test reporting.

Test Engineer at QIQ Qcentris

November 1, 2015 - June 1, 2016

End-2-End testing of customers UI; test case creation based on requirement documentation; test case execution and incident reporting; defect management and progress reporting.

Test Manager at FidorBank

January 1, 2015 - October 1, 2015

Leading testing team and testing activities; managing testers internal and external; preparation and execution of test cases; follow-up meetings; recruitment and building up a testing team.

QA Consultant / Test Manager at ComiIQ

February 1, 2013 - December 1, 2014

Test Manager of the trading business area for the main warehouse software testing; installing and administering test and production environments; test scenario and test case creation; test execution and defect management; system administration for the project; leading testing activities and progress reporting.

Test Manager / Release Manager at Tata Consultancy Services

March 1, 2008 - January 1, 2013

Led a 5-person testing team; coordinated testing activities for a customer data center migration project; prepared functional test cases in HP QC; reported progress; test automation with ROBOT framework; offshore team support; Release Manager during sprints.

System Engineer at Nokia Networks

October 1, 2001 - February 1, 2008

Analyzed requirements; created test scenarios and test cases; test automation with ROBOT testing framework; executed tests and managed defects.