Weston Dunn Email & Phone Number

Fort Worth, Tx, Us

Texas, United States

United States

• Spearheaded a large-scale ETL migration to Informatica’s IICS, ensuring a seamless transition through strategic testing, coordinated teamwork, and meticulous timeline management.• Successfully restructured a sizeable offshore team of twelve contract quality engineers, creating two specialized teams focused on delivery and innovation, enhancing operational efficiency.• Optimized team size to eight, including three full-time employees, three offshore contractors, and two onshore contractors, resulting in significant cost savings by reducing dependency on offshore contractors and aligning resources with business hours.• Led the comprehensive overhaul of over 3,000 regression tests for a 20+ year-old legacy web platform by establishing a dedicated team of engineers, transitioning from brittle UI tests to robust API testing, reducing the regression timeline from 3 weeks to 2-3 days.• Achieved a regression timeline reduction to 2-3 days with less than two hundred test cases, increasing coverage from less than 30% to over 95%, significantly improving product quality and reliability.

United States

• Developed reusable and scalable SaltStack scripts to build, execute, and teardown performance testing clusters of JMeter with integrated reporting using InfluxDB and Telegraf.• Directed creation and implementation of advanced quality engineering tools and testing frameworks, significantly enhancing testing thoroughness and efficiency through coordinated team efforts and achievable goal setting.• Spearheaded the enterprise-wide adoption of ReportPortal.io for comprehensive test report analysis, managing approval, governance, and installation, and conducting extensive team training, improving evaluation processes and decision-making for release health.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Standardized testing methods across domains through effective communication, regular meetings, and thorough documentation, achieving a unified testing approach and streamlined processes.• Enhanced QA processes and team performance through targeted coaching, process improvements, and collaborative training sessions, increasing efficiency and effectiveness.• Championed the adoption of innovative technologies and initiative-taking risk mitigation strategies, driving continuous improvement and ensuring the organization stayed at the forefront of industry advancements.• Provided dedicated leadership as the SDET for twelve scrum teams, developing strategic plans, optimizing automation processes, designing proofs of concept, and delivering comprehensive leadership reports.

Arlington, Texas

• Led the transition from a manual testing environment with 130 testers to a fully automated QA organization, establishing the first engineering team at GM Financial and growing it to fifteen full-time engineers.• Developed a career growth pathway from manual testing to automation, leading to the implementation of end-to-end automation for all web and mobile products within a year.• Introduced Service Virtualization and Test Data Management platforms, significantly enhancing support for the entire development organization.• Secured a $1.5 million contract with Perfecto Mobile, upgrading mobile testing capabilities from ten outdated physical devices to a fleet of twenty-five of the latest, up-to-date devices and thirty desktop browser versions across all platforms.• Facilitated a 75% reduction in production issues and minimized customer service callbacks by providing comprehensive device coverage, enabling effective troubleshooting and customer support for app-related inquiries.

Arlington, Texas

• Led the establishment of test pipelines between Jenkins and TFS to schedule and report automated testing efforts, allowing multiple teams to see states of quality across products.• Automated test data creation for MSMQ, 3-party REST/SOAP API request/response pairs, and letter generation, reducing costs from vendor API calls and increasing data scenario coverage by over two times.

Arlington, Texas

• Facilitated database security and risk-based testing, introducing CA’s DevTest (LISA) for advanced testing procedures and team proficiency.• Reduced in-house device risks to zero and expanded device coverage by five web versions and twenty device models.• Established efficient and scalable web and mobile testing processes using dedicated Perfecto Mobile datacenter devices (30 web / 25 mobile).

Arlington, Texas

• Ensured that all information systems products and services met organization standards and end-user requirements.• Performed and led software testing to ensure proper operation and defects-free.• Provided time estimates and deliverable dates to project and development managers for the testing of applications.• Documented and worked to resolve all complex problems and reported progress and problem resolution to management.• Devised improvements to current procedures and developed models of possible future configurations.• Acted as an information resource to technical writers and other Quality Assurance Analysts.

Arlington, Tx

• Responsible for testing every aspect of any .COM project to ensure proper operation and freedom from defects.• Projects varied from small feature additions to major improvements that could impact many internal departments and systems.• Acquired business and technical details about every project due to the nature of GMF’s business and services.• Worked closely with business, legal, developers, architecture, and any other department that could be impacted by the slightest change, gathering data, asking questions, and thinking out of the box.• Documented and worked to resolve all problems before they got passed to production.

Murrieta, Ca

• Solely implemented an eCommerce website to sell products from Handle It Corporation. Ongoing upgrades, maintenance, and feature additions will continue.• Requirements: HTML5, PHP, Drupal, Paypal WPS, UPS API, OpenID API, Google Analytics, reCAPTCHA

Arlington, Tx

• Contract to hire position for GM Financial.

Greater San Diego Area

• Provided day-to-day support for the institute's internal and external websites.• Administered site structure and access permissions.• Designed and implemented CMS features and user interfaces.• Developed and tested PHP/JavaScript/Velocity code.• Troubleshot website content.• Provided training to advanced users of the CMS.• Served as a resource to CMS users throughout the institute.

La Jolla Shores, California, United States

• Managed online application system, student records database, course evaluation system, and graduate program website.• Entered, accumulated, and disseminated applicant data and reports to admissions committee members across La Jolla, CA and Jupiter, FL campuses.• Managed and updated web-based MySQL relational databases.• Designed and enhanced graduate program web pages.• Developed new web-based technologies for real-time information sharing among students, faculty, and the graduate office.

Escondido, California, United States

• Performed job functions in production, application engineering, and IT departments.• Handled technical customer service calls.• Maintained customer repair tracking services.• Gathered and filed production records.• Posted production schedules.• Created and controlled documentation for AutoCAD drawings and schematics.• Managed, analyzed, problem-solved, and repaired computer systems and peripherals.• Documented and maintained upgrades or replacements to hardware and software systems.• Supported user account information.

Augusta, Georgia, United States

• Responsible for handling inbound telephone inquiries and promoting Knolgoy products and services.• Successfully resolved customer billing and service issues while meeting or exceeding statistical call center standards.• Provided customer education and troubleshooting for phone, internet, and cable services.

Fort Hood, Texas, United States

• Completed a 4-year career with the U.S. Army.• Actively participated in the resolution and turnaround of Operation Iraqi Freedom/Enduring Freedom.• Part of the lead communications team that erected the world's largest mobile voice/data network.• Successfully managed complex network security data.• Supervised immediate team members through day-to-day operations.