Rich Downie
Senior Test Automation Engineer (Remote)
City of Rochester, New York, United States
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Top SchoolRich Downie is a Senior Test Automation Engineer with 25+ years building and maintaining automation frameworks and over a decade of hands-on SDET experience across web, API, mobile, and CI/CD. He designs full-stack Ruby-based frameworks (Cucumber, RSpec, Selenium, Appium, HTTParty) and has operationalized them with Docker and pipelines to improve deployment velocity and test reliability. As a founder he’s built security-first products—most recently a zero-knowledge, Nostr-enabled Bitcoin wealth platform—and previously launched CukeHub to auto-document application behavior. Based in Rochester, NY, he combines deep tooling expertise with a pragmatic focus on cross-functional collaboration, mentorship, and measurable quality outcomes. An often-overlooked strength is his ability to move between founding products and scaling enterprise QA infrastructure while staying hands-on in code and CI.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Business Administration and Management, General, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Business Administration and Management, General at Roberts Wesleyan University
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Github Skills (26)
watir9
sketchup8
geckodriver8
test-automation8
android8
windows8
capybara8
selenium-webdriver8
appium8
selenium8
webdriver8
browserstack8
ios7
watir-webdriver7
automation7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
CukeHub/cukehub_gem
Feb 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:28 commits, 2 PRs, 26 pushes in 8 months
richdownie/fsar_tests
Mar 2016 - Nov 2019
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
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