Jari Bakken

As a core developer on both the Selenium and Watir projects, and the founder of related projects such as watir-webdriver, Jari has extensive experience in the web test automation space. Since late 2009 his open source efforts have been focused on Selenium 2/WebDriver, for which he wrote and maintains the official Ruby bindings. His watir-webdriver project, an implementation of Watir’s API on top of the WebDriver techonlogy, marks an important step forward in consolidating the Watir and Selenium projects on the best browser automation tech available. By day, Jari works as a senior test engineer for the Norwegian classified ads site FINN.no, where he develops automation solutions and test infrastructure. By night, he enjoys hacking on Ruby tools and making use of his degree in jazz guitar.