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Gabriel Kerr

@gabrielkerr

Senior QA Engineer at Adobe who built Playwright end-to-end coverage and Pact contract tests for SaaS products.

At Adobe, I own end-to-end quality strategy across Java and Node.js services and React and Next.js applications. I built Playwright coverage for customer-facing flows and designed Pact contract tests for shared REST and GraphQL APIs.

I also led performance testing with k6 and Gatling, and partnered with infrastructure teams to test AWS environments and Kubernetes deployments. By defining SLIs and SLOs alongside distributed tracing, I helped reduce mean time to detection for regressions by approximately 40%.

Earlier, at Weave, I owned quality automation for communication and scheduling products, using RSpec, Capybara, and Cypress. Before moving into QA engineering, I developed backend and full-stack software at Pluralsight and Instructure, working with Java, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, and frontend frameworks.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior QA Engineer

Current

Adobe

Jan 2022 - Present (4 years 9 months)

Owned end-to-end quality strategy for enterprise SaaS products, architected multi-layer test automation, and led performance and load testing initiatives. Improved production observability and reduced mean time to detection for regressions by approximately 40%.

Java Spring Boot NodeJS React Next.js Pact REST API Testing GraphQL Testing Playwright Gatling Terraform AWS Kubernetes GitHub Actions PostgreSQL MongoDB SLOs Distributed Tracing

QA Engineer II

Weave

Jan 2020 - Dec 2021 (1 year 11 months)

Owned quality automation for customer communication and scheduling products, built RSpec and Capybara test suites, and developed Cypress-based end-to-end coverage. Integrated automated test pipelines into CI/CD workflows, reducing manual release verification effort by approximately 30%.

Ruby on Rails RSpec Capybara Sidekiq Vue.Js Angular Cypress Postman NodeJS JMeter CircleCi GitHub Actions

Full-Stack Engineer

Pluralsight

Jun 2018 - Dec 2019 (1 year 6 months)

Developed backend APIs and application services using Java Spring Boot and Node.js, built REST API endpoints for Angular frontend applications, and improved application performance through MySQL query optimization and Redis caching.

Java Spring Boot NodeJS Angular REST APIs MySQL Redis Performance Optimization

Software Engineer Intern / Associate Backend Engineer

Instructure

May 2015 - May 2018 (3 years)

Contributed to backend and full-stack development for education technology applications, implemented Ruby on Rails API functionality and ActiveRecord data models, and built PostgreSQL-backed data migrations and schema changes.

Ruby on Rails ActiveRecord PostgreSQL JavaScript Vue.Js Canvas Learning Management System