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).

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

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.

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.

 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.