Arik Jones

Built batch tooling that redeployed hundreds of applications and microservices in under an hour, replacing a manual Bamboo process. Made Nomad upgrades repeatable with staged health checks and rollback procedures, and completed a move to the lower-cost Chef 360 platform.

Built Go validation that caught sequence gaps before market data reached downstream consumers. Automated more than 100 Datadog alert conditions and mapped throughput limits with load tests.

Wrote Salesforce workflow tests in Ruby and Capybara that surfaced access failures earlier in the release cycle.

Rebuilt data setup to tolerate changing API shapes and stay aligned with services under test, resolving race conditions caused by invalid test fixtures.

Built end-to-end tests that followed mortgage workflow messages across Kafka, Appian, desktop applications, and microservices. Designed Azure DevOps jobs that ran those tests across services.

Traced persistent UI test flakiness to slow locators and weak isolation in the page-object framework. Built a replacement proof of concept that ran faster and more reliably.

Worked with front-end developers to close testability gaps in a React search product. Moved the UI suite from Ruby to JavaScript, reducing average runtime from about 90 minutes to 35.

Designed and maintained hundreds of browser tests for large Ruby and Java applications. Lowered runtimes by prioritizing what ran and when, optimizing locators, and parallelizing coverage through Selenium Grid.

Led redesigns across several online properties and built publishing tools for newsroom staff. Automated online ad uploads, removing a recurring monthly vendor expense.