Leah Klearman
Textile Area Lead at Future Forge Makerspace
Silver City, New Mexico, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLeah Klearman is a pragmatic QA and test automation engineer with 14 years of experience ensuring reliability across web and storage systems, including notable contributions to Mozilla add-on testing and OpenStack Swift. She has a strong track record of writing and refactoring pytest-based tests, increasing unit coverage, and stabilizing flaky web tests using WebDriverWait and common testing bases. Leah pairs deep hands-on automation skills with systems-level testing experience from roles at SwiftStack, Mozilla, and NetApp, and she has run Jenkins and small VM farms to support CI testing. Now based in Silver City, NM, she combines community-focused technical leadership—running a makerspace textile area and offering local tech services—with stage lighting and theater production work, reflecting an uncommon blend of engineering rigor and practical creative skills. Ambitious about work–life balance, she’s deliberately shaping a sustainable career that supports health and community engagement.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
UC Santa Cruz ExtensionRotherberg School, Rotherberg School at Hebrew University of JerusalemBA International Studies Spanish, BA International Studies Spanish at Bradley University, Peoria IL, USA
Hebrew, Spanish
Github Skills (12)
unit-testing10
openstack10
selenium-ide10
pytest10
selenium10
python10
test-automation10
service-design9
service-provider9
javascript4
github-ci3
githubaction-workflow3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/swift
Mar 2013 - Feb 2015
OpenStack Storage (Swift). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Leah's contributions primarily focused on increasing unit test coverage within the OpenStack Swift project. Their work involved writing new test cases for account and container servers, ensuring comprehensive testing of various functionalities, including PUT, POST, GET, HEAD, and DELETE operations. The code changes demonstrate a focus on testing edge cases, invalid inputs, and error conditions, contributing to the overall robustness and reliability of the storage service. Further work included refactoring existing probe tests to utilize a common testing base class, improving test maintainability.
opendevswiftopenstackstoragemacos
mozilla/Addon-Tests
Mar 2012 - Jul 2012
Tests for Mozilla's Add-ons website
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:21 commits, 1 comment in 4 months
Contributions summary:Leah's commits primarily involve modifying and adding tests for the Mozilla Add-ons website. Their work includes refactoring existing tests, adding new tests for features like theme installation and jetpack installation, and fixing flaky tests by incorporating WebDriverWait. The user is focused on ensuring the functionality and reliability of the add-ons website by implementing and adjusting testing practices with pytest.
firefoxadd-onsthunderbirdmozillaons
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