Ben Weese

Ben Weese

About Me

Dad, Husband, Problem Solver
ben-Weese

I am a SDET @ Early Warning Services

With over 10 years of experience with Quality Assurance. Expertise in manual and automated testing of React website. Utilizing Geb, Spock, Selenium, Rest-assured, and Postman using Java and JavaScript.
 
- Introduced Automation Frameworks to companies using proof of concept.
- Created over 90,000 back-end test checking prices for a shopping cart website.
- Launched a multi-million dollar eCommerce site, with little to no defects.
- Have define several new QA processes to improve the process.
 
Software is my passion and I am always looking to learn more about different kinds of software. Weather it is working on my home lab or blogging about QA, you will find me happy on my computer.

Fun Facts

Bugs found

9,524

Hours Saved w/ Automation

6,256

Hours on Stack Overflow

212

Monster Energy Consumed

20,000

Resume

9 Years of Experience

Education

2005-2008

Software Engineering(No Degree)

Iowa State University

2008-2015

Management Information Systems

Bellevue University

Experience

June 2022 - Current

Software Development Engineer in Test

Early Warning Services

UI and API Automation using a custom framework using Java, Selenium, and TestNG. Also using Gitlab and browserstack to run automated test.

March 2022 - June 2022

Lead QA Engineer

Ameritas

UI and API Automation as part of an Agile scrum team. Using Postman, Lodash, Chai, Javascript, moment, Rest-assured, and Newman for API testing. UI automation using Groovy, Geb, and Spock.

April 2019 - March 2022

Senior QA Engineer

Ameritas

UI and API Automation as part of an Agile scrum team. Using Postman, Lodash, Chai, Javascript, moment, Rest-assured, and Newman for API testing. UI automation using Groovy, Geb, and Spock.

July 2018 - March 2019

QA Technical Lead

MacPractice

The Technical Lead takes on task and tools as assigned such as the build system, learning and implementation of automated test for API and UI. Using Java, Selenium, Cucumber, and Serenity to automate React website. API testing with Postman and Newman using Gitlab runners.

Sep 2013 - July 2018

QA Analyst

MacPractice

Agile Testing & writing test plans, then impending the test plans. Working in several squads or scrum style teams to help produce better designs and product by putting in tickets.

Coding Skills

Java/Groovy

Postman

Geb & Spock(BDD Selenium)

Rest-assured

Javascript

HTML5

Wordpress

Python

Contact Me

Get in Touch with me about things

Get in Touch

Feel Free to contact me about Software Testing, Homelabing, and various other topics.

Lincoln, NE, USA
ben.weese@benweese.com