Summary
Kelsey Werner is a Senior SDET with a decade of experience building reliable test automation and shipping quality web applications across SaaS, education, and transportation domains. She blends deep hands-on skills in Ruby/Rails testability, RSpec/Capybara automation, and cloud-native tooling (AWS/GCP, Docker, Kafka) with systems thinking earned during a 2023 MS in Computer Science. Kelsey has a track record of scaling end-to-end suites, reducing test run times, and shifting testing left through developer-friendly patterns that increased early bug detection and team adoption. Beyond automation, she’s comfortable writing production code (React, Node, Rust, C/C++) and designing realistic full-system integration tests that minimize mocks for asynchronous job processing. Her background in sales and customer-facing roles informs a user-centered approach to quality and an ability to communicate technical tradeoffs to product and leadership. Based in Portland, she’s actively pursuing deeper Rails expertise while continuing to explore data engineering and distributed systems.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BA, International Relations & History, BA, International Relations & History at The College of William and Mary
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 4.0, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 4.0 at Portland State University
English, French