Steve Strener, Cste, Csm, Safe Email & Phone Number

South San Francisco, California, United States

•Led and managed a geographically distributed SQE team responsible for designing and executing test strategies and test plans for all SW related implementations of the Cell Shuttle releases.•Worked with product management, software engineers and mechanical engineers to define, implement and verify software engineering requirements.• Established SQA processes and implemented effective Quality metrics, best practices and KPIs across all Scrum teams.•Responsible for hiring, motivating, and retaining QA resources through effective performance management.•Provided technical direction, coaching, guidance, and support to team members to ensure industry standards and best practices are followed.•Prioritized UI & API test cases for automation and set up test environments for continuous test execution (API=75% coverage, UI=65% coverage).•Implemented creative solutions to increase test coverage partnering with different internal testing groups.•Administrated Azure DevOps for test planning, execution and analytical purposes, including bug/story/task properties and workflows.•Conducted regular communication with senior management on status, risks and change control.•Created a team environment that fosters collaboration, respect, and professionalism to drive innovation.

Redwood City, California, United States

• Development and management of distributed software quality team • Prioritize team deliverables and appropriately allocate resources to programs, projects, and other work assignments• Developing vision for evolution of SQE team through implementation of best practices, including tools and frameworks, and create a culture of continuous improvement• Provideing guidance and leadership to the team to ensure team and individual deliverables are met• Mentoring, guiding and assisting employees to develop career goals and development plans• Developing strategy for designing, creating, enhancing and maintaining test cases, conducting hands-on testing when needed• Providing accurate planning with clear milestones for testing leading to successful implementation and timely project completion• Collaborating with cross-functional teams across Guardant Health to ensure timely and robust execution of testing as part of a regular release schedule• Overseeng the creation, maintenance, and operation of automated testing frameworks• Driving UAT and training activities in accordance with Enterprise System Software releases• Reviewing and approving Validation protocols and summary reports generated by the Validation staff against Business Requirements and/or Functional Specifications• Defining and implementing software quality improvement initiatives

San Jose, Ca

• Defined quality standards, policies, processes and coordinated release activities. • Facilitate Program Increment (PI) Planning to define Iteration Goals and Objectives• Provided Quality Systems leadership, tactical and strategic direction as well as hands-on assistance.• Achieved 2-day turn on bug fixes by personally managing defect backlog. • Hands on test activities related to web and embedded software of Eargo hearing solutions (websites, hearing devices) focusing on both eCommerce (cross-browsers/cross-platforms) and Mobile (iOS/Android) technologies. • Designed, collected, and presented Quality Metrics for continues Quality Improvements. • Co-chaired Scrum, Planning and Retrospective meetings.• Proactively worked with technical and non-technical teams on development, UAT and release activities. • Managed a geographically distributed offshore teams (India/Latvia), including daily reviews, planning, knowledge transfer, bug triage, assignments, and technical support.

Responsible for Commercial (Order to Cash) line of projects of the company developed genomic cancer tests.Salesforce based test suite development and execution: Functional, Usability, Acceptance, System Integration test types.Ensured compliance of Test Plans with SOPs and Functional Requirements.Worked collaboratively with Medical, Business, Development, and IT to augment quality of the personalized test results to help patient with their treatment decisions.Governed team's test activities on various domains and systems, including Desktop, Web and Mobile apps.Achieved significant improvement in quality and projects throughput by test automation (Selenium).Lead and mentored team of 7 on-site and 10 off-shore Engineers to ensure effective test strategy, test execution, scheduling, results reporting and personal development.Developed QA team's budget, resources planning, established technical objectives, assignments and tasks monitoring.Lead effort of defining, introducing and managing SDLC within organization, Team Foundation Server workflows/properties administration.Presented Management with regular quality assessments, KPI's and updates.

 Formalize standard processes and procedures to optimize testing throughput, create and review documentation for accuracy and completeness, create and track project schedules, and establish quality standards, objectives, documentation, and measures.  Create processes and manage QA deliverables, research and implement new and validate current testing methods, processes, tools and systems to assist in achieving company goals. Extensive hands on experience building installers for customer releases using Install Shield Express Personally own part of each project and conduct all required testing, including Licensing, Usability, Functional, Negative, Recovery, Benchmark, Performance and Load. Responsible for defining and implementing of automation projects – Quick Test Professional Installed and administer bug tracking tool Test Track Pro.