Titus Fortner
Project Leadership Committee at Selenium
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolTitus Fortner is a test automation expert and open-source leader with 13+ years driving reliable CI/CD and continuous testing practices for teams from startups to enterprise. As a long-time Selenium committer and current Project Leadership Committee member, he contributes to core language bindings and documentation for widely used specs like W3C WebDriver. He builds resilient, maintainable test frameworks and tools (primarily in Ruby) that turn flaky test runs into actionable signals so teams can quickly diagnose and fix failures. At Sauce Labs he scaled developer experience and enablement programs, creating multi-language SDKs and enterprise onboarding templates that moved organizations toward dependable pipelines. Titus pairs deep technical work—fixing Selenium, Watir, and Appium test suites—with practical training and assessments to eliminate bottlenecks in throughput and observability. His background as a submarine officer and process engineer surfaces in a disciplined, data-driven approach to testing and operational reliability.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS Mathematics Honors, BS Mathematics Honors at United States Naval AcademyComputer Science, Computer Science at Harvard UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at St.Edward's University
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Github Skills (35)
hugo10
watir10
webdriver10
selenium10
testing10
rspec10
page-object10
selenium-ide10
web-content10
java10
ruby10
javas10
automation10
html10
appium10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
watir/watir
Sep 2014 - Jan 2023
Watir Powered By Selenium
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:9 reviews, 807 commits, 424 PRs in 8 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Titus primarily contributed to the Watir framework, fixing issues related to element handling, window switching, and interactions within iframes and collections. These fixes involved modifying core functionalities, updating tests, and adding new tests to ensure the framework's stability and proper function. The user's work also involved the maintenance of the tests themselves, ensuring proper coverage of added functionality and correct handling of Selenium errors.
rubyselenium-webdrivercapybarasketchupwatir
SeleniumHQ/seleniumhq.github.io
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
Official Selenium website and documentation
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:100 reviews, 125 commits, 154 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Titus primarily contributes to the Selenium project by updating and maintaining the official website and documentation. Their commits focus on improving the website's structure and content, including adding new features, fixing broken links, and updating the documentation to reflect recent Selenium releases. They also implement new shortcodes and badges to clarify content applicability and improve the user experience.
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