James Wehri
About James Wehri
James Wehri is a QA Engineer with over a decade of experience at Transamerica, where he leads a QA test automation team. He has a background in sales and workforce management, having worked for notable companies such as Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group.
Work at Transamerica
James Wehri has been employed at Transamerica as a QA Engineer since 2012. In this role, he leads a QA test automation team and manages offshore technical resources to meet project requirements. His responsibilities include utilizing Continuous Integration practices with Jenkins and overseeing version control using tools such as HP ALM, Bitbucket/Git, and SVN. He also develops complex data-driven test automation with HP UFT and ALM, contributing to the overall quality assurance processes within the organization.
Previous Experience in the Music Industry
Before his current role, James Wehri held various positions in the music industry. He worked at Sony Music Entertainment as a Sales Representative from 2003 to 2005 in the Dallas/Fort Worth Area. He also served as a Field Rep Sales at Warner Music Group for one year from 2005 to 2006. Earlier in his career, he was a Retail Marketing Representative at Columbia Records for eight months in 1999-2000 and worked at Sony Music Entertainment in multiple roles, including College Marketing Rep and Field Marketing Rep.
Background in Workforce Management
James Wehri has experience in workforce management from his tenure at AEGON, where he worked as a Workforce Management Analyst from 2007 to 2010 in Plano, Texas. This role provided him with insights into operational efficiency and resource allocation, skills that are beneficial in his current QA engineering position.
Education and Expertise
James Wehri studied at the University of Utah, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Sociology from 1995 to 1999. His educational background complements his professional experience, particularly in understanding team dynamics and user behavior, which are essential in quality assurance and software testing.
Technical Skills and Tools
In his role as a QA Engineer, James Wehri utilizes a range of technical skills and tools. He has extensive experience in software test automation using Selenium Webdriver in Eclipse with Java, along with tools such as Cucumber, Maven, TestNG, Apache POI, Log4j, and Extent Reports. He is also skilled in using qTest Manager and JIRA for test management, enhancing the efficiency of the testing process.