Naoki Hirata is a senior QA engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 13 years of experience driving quality for consumer and mobile products. At Mozilla he co-leads QA for the B2G project, acted as tech lead for contractors, and introduced Exploratory/Session-Based Testing practices that uncovered the majority of blocking bugs on a key phone release. He has deep hands-on experience with crash triage initiatives, build maintenance, and tooling for mobile platforms, plus a background testing RDBMS and Office applications at FileMaker and Microsoft. Known for mentoring junior testers and creating practical how‑tos and internal tooling, he blends technical troubleshooting with process improvements. Beyond QA he has led large volunteer operations, demonstrating operational leadership and systems thinking outside the lab.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
-, ME/IE, -, ME/IE at Penn State University
Bachelors, Computer Science, Bachelors, Computer Science at University of Michigan-Dearborn
Contributions:16 commits, 10 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years
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