WESLEY J CHEN
Email: wesjchen@gmail.com ||
Location: Chicago, IL & Boston, MA
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/wesleyjchen ||
Personal: www.wesjchen.com ||
Github: www.github.com/wesJchen
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Boston University (Boston, MA)
University of Illinois at Chicago (Chicago, IL)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Fetch (Chicago, IL | Boston, MA)
QA Automation Engineer
Aug 2024 - Current
- Automated CI/CD pipelines with Python scripts in Bitbucket, reducing manual overhead by 20% as Mobile Release Lead.
- Increased end-to-end test coverage by 1% weekly, prioritizing code churn areas to reduce regressions in Fetch's B2B features.
- Developed Python/Pytest integration tests to detect backend and frontend failures before production deployment.
- Built and deployed data quality tests to ensure accurate telemetry coverage in a previously unmonitored frontend feature.
Software Quality Assurance Engineer
Sep 2023 - Aug 2024
- Mapped microservices' endpoints to analyze integration logic, data flow, and test cases, boosting automated test coverage by 3% weekly.
- Automated release management tasks with a Python web scraper using the Jira API, cutting manual overhead by 60%.
- Authored technical documentation and test plans for automation and manual testing, ensuring consistency across 3 product teams.
- Increased automation coverage by 25% in Playwright regression tests for a new partner-facing product.
Software Quality Assurance Analyst
Apr 2022 - Aug 2023
- Defined test documentation for impression data aligned with IAB guidelines, serving as a playbook for requirements testing and future mobile development.
- Developed functional and integration test cases to prevent regressions and ensure system stability after updates.
- Facilitated grooming sessions to establish acceptance criteria and testing priorities for bug fixes and new releases.
- Led a guild workgroup to define acceptance criteria and functional tests for Iterable and Appsflyer SDK integrations, producing test plans and user manuals.
Senior Data Integrity Specialist
Sep 2021 - Apr 2022
- Ensured quality, completeness, and accuracy of standardized OCR data for restaurant catalogs.
- Developed training materials and delivered project updates to specialists on processes and workflows.
- Wrote SQL queries to detect anomalies and gaps, streamlining onboarding for restaurant partnerships in reward programs.
- Created visualizations to analyze metrics and evaluate the effectiveness of restaurant data in product linking.
Data Integrity Specialist
Oct 2020 - Aug 2021
- Supported dashboard implementation by defining roles, gathering requirements, and performing black-box testing for cross-departmental use.
- Identified and resolved data anomalies across restaurant and retailer records using Excel.
- Automated reporting of data accuracy metrics with Python in Jupyter, improving data cleaning and analysis efficiency by 80%.
- Developed and documented processes in Confluence to clarify the restaurant data lifecycle for stakeholders.
Workiva (Chicago, IL)
Product Marketing Analyst Intern
May 2019 - Dec 2019
- Constructed price performance dashboard to track marketing efforts and model new pricing strategies.
- Analyzed and cross-referenced SEC EDGAR filings to customer solutions licenses in order to identify white space and product fencing.
- Wrote SQL scripts to understand the status of licenses proliferating and evaluate any potential growth opportunities.
- Assessed product adoption trends, product usage, and customer segmentation using Salesforce.
- Provided critical support for product pricing and packaging by automating metrics, calculations, and data analysis.
TECH STACK
Testing Frameworks & Tools
Postman API, Firebase & Crashlytics, Browserstack, Pytest, Playwright
Database Tools
Snowflake, DynamoDb, MongoDb, Redis, Kafka
Scripting Languages
Python, SQL, Typescript, Ruby
Collaborative & Admin
Microsoft Office Suite, Google Suite, Atlassian (Jira, Confluence)
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
University of Illinois at Chicago
- Dean's List (Fall 2017 - Fall 2019)
- Graduated with latin honors - magna cum laude
- Dr. Lucille Derreck merit scholarship recipient
- UIC Norman Parker merit scholarship recipient
ACADEMIC COURSEWORK
Boston University
Metropolitan College
- Database Design and Implementation for Business
- Information Structures with Python
- Business Data Communication and Networks
University of Illinois at Chicago
College of Business Administration
- Business Database Technology
- Business Statistics I, II
- Business Data Mining
- Programming for Data Science in Business
- Statistical Software for Business Analysis
- Marketing Analytics
- Advanced Marketing Research
- Marketing and Business Intelligence