Thorsten Steckstor

Guiding the new EA mobile title from pre-production to world-wide launch and beyond.

• Quality Product Owner for the EA mobile title Lord of the Rings: Heroes of Middle-earth.
• Setting strategy and team organization, creating and monitoring work processes.
• Establishing KPIs and tracking ROI.
• Responsible for budget, hiring strategy, performance management.
• Stakeholder for all automation team efforts related to project work.

Managing a team of 26 internal and external QA engineers to help Riot delight players.

• Setting QA strategy, metrics, KPI, organizational structure and hiring plan for the Sustainability Initiative, which includes game engine, content pipelines, databases and backend services.
• Working with teams to improve quality assurance processes and increase product confidence.
• Guide and coach towards modern, efficient Software Development and Test Cycle.

Successfully unified 60+ QA engineers spread across multiple corporate entities, geographic locations, and under various types of previous leadership into a unified QA department resulting in increased communication and reduced test turn-around times.

• Converting the executive vision into an actionable roadmap, with considerations for budget, headcount, hiring, Performance management, team compositions, tools, processes, etc.
• Leading the globalization effort to create and implement changes to improve efficiency and speed of delivery without sacrificing quality.
• Evaluating product readiness for release for all products in the global Solera portfolio, as part of the Change Approval Board.

Built a new QA team from scratch to address Manual, Automation, and Performance Testing activities with new and reimplemented tools and processes to promote Shift-Left methodology.

• Transformed a small, Manual Testing team into a large, efficient Test Automation group.
• Created an Automation Framework to improve test throughput from ~700 Manual Test executions to over 10,000 Automation Test executions per Test Cycle while increasing Test Automation Coverage to ~65% over a 3-year period.
• Built a comprehensive and configurable Load & Performance Test Framework enabling Symitar development to proactively address customer bottlenecks.
• Coordinated multi-year roadmap enabling higher quality and efficiency.

• Created test automation framework and implemented execution and maintenance plan for marketing websites.

• Enhanced and executed performance and failover framework for railroad traffic messaging system.

• Created test automation framework for global shipping software.

• Created, executed and analyzed performance test scenarios.

• Created automation testcases for World Wide Telescope.

• Single Point of Contact to T-Mobile during cell phone app development.

• Created test cases for cell phone automation framework.

• Created automation test cases for Windows Service packs.

• Language game tester (German) for Xbox games.

• Backend developer for medical insurance software.