Eric Saari
Senior Software Engineer, Test Infrastructure at WebdriverIO Community
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolEric Saari is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in test infrastructure with 11 years of experience building scalable, CI-driven automation platforms for high‑traffic and regulated environments. He has led greenfield test architectures—migrating legacy systems to TypeScript/Playwright and WebdriverIO—while optimizing distributed test execution, reducing CI times by up to 60% and cutting vendor costs dramatically. An active open-source maintainer of the widely used wdio-rerun-service (40K+ weekly NPM downloads), he combines enterprise delivery with community stewardship, driving zero-dependency releases and comprehensive E2E coverage. Eric blends hands-on engineering (Kubernetes, AWS Fargate, GitHub Actions) with developer experience work like self-service CLIs, and he’s an early adopter of AI-assisted quality gates, having helped operationalize LLM reviews across teams. Based in Jersey City, he’s as comfortable mentoring junior engineers as he is architecting test systems that power billions of daily impressions.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Technology at Marist UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Pace University
English
Github Skills (82)
selenium-server10
testing10
test-framework10
wdio10
automation10
mobile-web10
javascript10
webdriver10
devtools10
firefox10
jasmine-tests10
alibabacloud10
mobile-automation10
test-automation10
selenium-grid10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
esaari/dotfiles
Feb 2019 - Dec 2020
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
esaari/webdriverio
Mar 2020 - Feb 2021
Next-gen WebDriver test automation framework for Node.js
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
test-automationtest-automation-frameworknode-jstestingnext-gen
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