Ben Yarger
Quality And Validation Architect (Sr MTS)
Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Yarger is a Quality and Validation Architect with a decade of experience driving test-first transformation and automation across startups and Fortune 500s, currently shaping release and contract-testing strategy at eBay from Portland, OR. He specializes in shifting teams from post-production to pre-production validation, cutting release times from days to minutes and slashing UI regression runtimes by 80% through mocks and atomic tests. Ben built a widely adopted OpenAPI-driven contract testing framework used by 10 teams and 110+ projects, and authored an eBay-specific OpenAPI editor and tooling to automate test and mock generation. He blends hands-on engineering—mobile and server-side testing, device farms, and code generation—with coaching and training, having led brown-bag sessions for 150+ engineers and mentored teammates into promotions. Notably, his background includes open-source tooling for remote device testing and a history of building practical integration tools for complex environments like PayPal separation and Intel Android ports.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Github Skills (11)
trend10
manual-testing8
robot7
raspberry6
testing5
application-server5
raspberry-pi4
desktop4
server4
macos3
windows3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
yarg0007/tickerjokes
Nov 2016 - Oct 2023
Contributions:500 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years
eBay/NSTSuite
Dec 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:6 releases, 35 reviews, 75 PRs in 2 years 3 months
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