Summary
Dennis Whalen is a QE Automation Architect with 11+ years of experience designing test automation and performance strategies for large enterprise and government applications. He combines a developer’s background in .NET and Java with hands-on automation using Cucumber/SpecFlow, Selenium, KarateDSL, Postman/Newman and scripting in Ruby, JavaScript, C# and Java. Dennis has a proven track record of dramatically improving test efficiency and application performance — including cutting regression runtimes by 75%, halving test failure rates, and increasing throughput by over 300% in past engagements. He pairs technical leadership with process change: establishing automation toolchains, creating DevOps pipelines, and translating performance metrics from Splunk/AppDynamics into actionable tuning. Based in Dublin, Ohio, he’s as comfortable mentoring teams and evangelizing best practices as he is building reusable frameworks that scale across projects.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Mathematics, BA, Mathematics at University of Cincinnati
The Ohio State University
English