Summary
Ferdi Cocelli is a Senior Quality Assurance Lead with 8+ years of experience delivering test automation and QA strategy across government, public sector and financial services. He specialises in modern Playwright-based frameworks and has a proven track record migrating legacy suites (Cypress, Protractor, CodeceptJS) into maintainable NX monorepo architectures while building CI/CD pipelines in Azure. At MaPS he defined the org-wide automation standard, introduced PACT contract testing and a team-adopted test coverage governance model, and at HMCTS led E2E, API and performance testing efforts including Gatling and WCAG 2.2 compliance. His early background as a Java developer for low-latency sportsbook systems gives him a strong appreciation for backend design and testability, which he leverages when line-managing engineers, running technical interviews and contributing to bids. Security-cleared and ISTQB 4.0 certified, he combines hands-on coding fluency with pragmatic leadership to modernise QA at scale.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Computer Science (Software Engineering), BSc (Hons), Computer Science (Software Engineering) at University of Hertfordshire