Mikael Siirtola
Lead Test Automation Engineer, GE Healthcare
Mikael Siirtola
Lead Test Automation Engineer, GE Healthcare
Mikael Siirtola is specialized in designing and implementing DevOps-methods to IT systems. His primary interests are in applying continuous integration, test-driven development and acceptance test automation to solve issues in scaling agile development. While Mikael has vast experience in various programming environments, his interests lie more in boosting the software production and helping organizations to improve their productivity.
At the health:CODE in Berlin Mikael will moderate the World Café session: “Scaling Test Automation to Support DevOps activities”. We spoke to him and got many interesting insights about his role and the DevOps transformation journey at GE Healthcare.
Mikael Siirtola: Agile and DevOps are tools to handle changes in rapidly evolving environment promoting collaboration and human interaction. It helps to react quickly to changing environment. DevOps practices such as test automation helps us to create quality products faster and cheaper.
Mikael Siirtola: My guess would be that the tools have taken time to mature enough to be used in highly regulated environment such as healthcare.
Mikael Siirtola: Well we are improving constantly the way we work here at GE so even though we have invested in DevOps it was change as usual. We find out a probable better way, experiment around it, implement it and learn from it.
Mikael Siirtola: DevOps is still a relatively new thing in healthcare and there is still much to improve. Creating compliance increasingly automated is still an area that offers lot to explore.
Mikael Siirtola: Start small. Do lot of small things and find a way that works for your context. DevOps is a better way of doing software development but it is no silver bullet that will solve your problems. It is another toolbox to perform better.
Mikael Siirtola: I find that sharing information is best way of improving and learning. I look forward to meet other experts in health during the conference and collaborating with them.
Mikael Siirtola: Test automation in healthcare and some tips what things should be considered when doing test automation in our field. How to scale the test automation to big products and keep the whole system maintainable.
Mikael Siirtola: Healthcare business is in transformation with DevOps practices and the ones that can create the best digital factories will be the ones that will gain great market advantage by being able to deliver safe products faster and cheaper.