Eric Kessler
Salesforce Quality Engineer at Koniag Government Services
Pickerington, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolEric Kessler is a Salesforce Quality Engineer with 15 years of hands-on experience in automated testing, Acceptance Driven Development, and Agile delivery. He specializes in Ruby and Cucumber, contributing to notable open-source projects like parallel_tests (improving cross-platform test robustness and speed) and cucumber-ruby (fixing subtle output bugs and enhancing test-run events). Eric has a strong consulting background across finance, healthcare, and government-focused firms, applying pragmatic QA engineering to complex enterprise systems. He pairs deep technical skill with a focus on test reliability and platform independence, often tackling edge-case and Windows-specific testing issues that go unnoticed. Based in Pickerington, Ohio, he also invests in full-stack skills through continuous learning, blending practical automation expertise with mentorship and process improvement.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Ohio UniversityFull Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCamp
English, German
Github Skills (10)
testing10
cucumber10
test-framework10
parallel-testing10
parallel-tests10
test-automation10
ruby10
gherkin9
git9
cicd4
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
grosser/parallel_tests
Aug 2017 - Aug 2022
Ruby: 2 CPUs = 2x Testing Speed for RSpec, Test::Unit and Cucumber
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:14 commits, 3 PRs, 46 comments in 5 years
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the test suite of the `parallel_tests` repository. Their work focused on adding, refactoring, and testing the functionality of the project. They added a test for file line test filtering, fixed tests for the Windows environment, and refactored code to improve readability and platform independence. These changes directly improved the robustness and reliability of the testing infrastructure.
cucumberrspecrubytesting
cucumber/cucumber-ruby
Sep 2015 - Oct 2017
Cucumber for Ruby. It's amazing!
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 7 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to bug fixes related to the output of messages within the Cucumber-Ruby framework. They addressed issues where modifying arguments after a `puts` call affected the output. The user implemented several iterations of the fix, refining the approach to handle different object types correctly. They also merged a branch and added a feature to enhance the test-run starting event.
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