Kayla Gilbert

QA Systems Specialist
kayla@snackdriven.com | (313) 444-2213 | Bentonville, AR (Remote) | LinkedIn | GitHub | snackdriven.com | Projects

I own QA for 5+ healthcare products. No backup means I'm a single point of failure. I test edge cases manually and build scripts when processes waste time repeatedly. 4-hour triage became a 1-hour script, 63-section forms became templates. 14 tools later, I've automated myself out of the boring work but not the job. Still need humans to catch what breaks in weird ways.

Chorus Innovations · Apr 2023 – Present  /  Remote
Senior QA Specialist Sep 2024 – Present
  • Own release-readiness decisions across 5+ healthcare products as sole QA. If I'm out sick, releases either slip or ship risky. I'm the quality and risk gate.
  • Design test matrices for multi-role workflows (doctors, nurses, admins, patients) with 20+ conditional paths and UI that shifts per role and state.
  • Built 14 custom scripts (video analysis, form autofill, test plan generation) that cut triage from ~4 hours to under 1 hour per release.
  • Catch data mismatches between UI and backend (patient records, appointment states, billing data), keeping PHI exposure risk in mind.
Software QA Specialist Apr 2023 – Sep 2024
  • Ran regression and smoke testing across dev, staging, and prod for each release. Built early QA tooling that became the full automation toolkit after promotion.
Ultranauts Inc · Feb 2020 – Feb 2023  /  Remote
Software Quality Engineer II Oct 2021 – Feb 2023
  • Built Selenium test suites for workflows with complex business rules: multi-step forms, conditional logic, role-based access controls.
  • Worked with enterprise and startup clients on test strategy, determining where automation saved time vs. created maintenance overhead.
QA Specializations
  • Healthcare / Internal Tools Testing
  • Role-Based Permissions Testing
  • Data Integrity Validation
  • Cross-Browser Regression
  • Release Readiness Assessment
  • Edge Case Generation
  • Agile / Scrum
Languages & Tools
  • Playwright
  • JavaScript / TypeScript
  • Python
  • Selenium
  • SQL
  • React / Vue
  • REST / GraphQL
  • CI/CD / GitHub Actions
  • Jira
  • LLM tooling (Claude, Gemini)