Summary
Ala Batarseh is a Principal Consultant and test architect with 11+ years of experience designing end-to-end automation, performance testing, and CI/CD-integrated quality gates for large-scale, distributed systems. She has led quality strategy across enterprises like Indeed and California DHCS, introducing contract testing, schema drift detection, and telemetry-driven validation for Kafka-based data meshes. Ala blends hands-on engineering—building TypeScript and Kubernetes-based test frameworks and reusable Kafka/Avro utilities—with program-level process improvements, including custom code-quality tooling and SonarQube/Snyk integrations. Her background spans performance and protocol compliance work at Microsoft, Expedia, and others, giving her deep expertise in load testing, long-haul scenarios, and data pipeline verification. Known for mentoring teams and publishing automation best practices, she consistently turns complex verification needs into high-ROI, repeatable solutions. Based in Seattle, she brings a pragmatic, security-aware approach to embedding continuous testing into DevOps workflows.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Computer Engineering, Masters Computer Engineering at Wayne State University