Summary
Aaron Backer is a Staff Software Engineer with 11+ years building scalable test automation and QA systems for SaaS and high-traffic consumer platforms. He designs pragmatic, service-oriented automation frameworks that enable horizontal scaling, real-time test reporting, and reuse of integration tests as load tests, and has repeatedly turned tedious manual debugging into fast, automated workflows. Comfortable across Java, C#, TypeScript, Selenium, and cloud messaging/datastores, he blends hands-on engineering with mentorship and strategic test planning to drive product quality. Based in Boise, he measures success by solving real customer problems and has a track record of inventing small, focused tools—like fast image-comparison grouping—to cut hours of toil into minutes.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer and Information Science, BS Computer and Information Science at George Fox University
Henry Foss High School