Kayla Gilbert

QA Engineer · Test Automation & Internal Tooling
kayla@snackdriven.com | (313) 444-2213 | Bentonville, AR (Remote) | LinkedIn | GitHub | snackdriven.com | Projects |

I write tools to get rid of manual work. Eight behavioral health products, solo QA, no backup — automate the slow stuff or do it forever. 14 scripts so far: documentation down to an hour a week, 63-section forms to one-click autofill. I've built myself out of the boring work but not the job.

Chorus Innovations · Apr 2023 – Present  /  Remote
Senior QA Specialist Sep 2024 – Present
  • Eight products, no other QA assigned to them. Every manual process I don't eliminate becomes permanent overhead, so I built automation tooling instead.
  • Codified multi-role workflows (doctors, nurses, admins, patients) with 20+ conditional paths into reusable test architecture. Runtime-generated UI means the models have to survive vendor push cycles, not just fixed states.
  • Built 14 custom scripts (video analysis, form autofill, test plan generation, Jira release summaries). Documentation overhead went from ~4 hrs/wk to under 1.
  • Verify PHI data persists through save/refresh cycles: patient records, appointment states, billing data. These are medical records; accuracy isn't optional.
Software QA Specialist Apr 2023 – Sep 2024
  • Inherited an environment too unstable to automate directly. Built incrementally: manual templates → checklists → scripts. By promotion, those iterations were the full QA toolkit.
Ultranauts Inc · Feb 2020 – Feb 2023  /  Remote
Software Quality Engineer II Oct 2021 – Feb 2023
  • Scoped test strategy for clients including Slack, GoodLeap, and Global Citizen: what to automate, and what to skip because the maintenance cost would outweigh the coverage.
  • Built Selenium automation for workflows where manual regression wasn't sustainable: multi-step forms, conditional logic, role-based access controls across codebases I didn't control and requirements that were still being written.
Languages
  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • SQL
  • Node.js
AI & APIs
  • Claude API + Code
  • Gemini API
  • MCP protocol
  • GraphQL
Testing
  • Playwright
  • Selenium
  • Cypress
Toolchain
  • GitHub Actions
  • Git
  • Jira
Frontend
  • React
  • Tailwind
Domain
  • Behavioral health SaaS
  • HIPAA