Roland Stens
Product Lifecycle Framework Consultant at Vancouver Coastal Health
North Saanich, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolRoland Stens is a senior Quality Engineering and Test Architecture consultant with over 30 years helping public-sector and enterprise organizations manage risk during complex digital transformations. He specializes in high-stakes SaaS and cloud environments where vendor-managed release cycles demand modern, risk-based quality operating models that preserve service continuity and regulatory compliance without slowing delivery. Roland is frequently engaged to clarify accountability between vendors and clients, establish test and release governance, and translate technical risk into concise executive decision points. His blend of deep technical credibility and senior leadership spans healthcare, financial services, insurance, and government, with a pragmatic, calm approach in pressured programs. As owner of Stens Consulting and a repeated contractor across BC government agencies, he combines hands-on automation and DevOps work—such as OpenShift upgrade testing frameworks—with strategic quality transformations. Based in North Saanich, BC, he leaves organizations more capable and self-sufficient, emphasizing sustainable practices over control-heavy testing.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Utrecht University
English, Dutch, German
Stackoverflow
11reputation
603reached
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Github Skills (104)
env10
postgresql10
material-ui10
integrations10
vuelidate10
ministry10
react-leaflet10
django10
credits10
docker-build10
spock10
cli10
openshift10
biodiversity10
geb10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
bcgov/BDDStack
Nov 2017 - Jan 2020
This is the Geb, Spock Test stack as deployed at BCGOV, it supports Chrome and Firefox headless testing, which can be used in OpenShift pipelines. ***Warning: Default Branch is Develop, please clone from Latest Release for use in your project, or develop if you want to contribute.
Contributions:5 releases, 106 commits, 11 PRs in 2 years 1 month
bcgovfirefoxspockheadless-firefoxtesting
rstens/entity
Dec 2019 - Aug 2024
ServiceBC Registry Team working on Legal Entities
Contributions:12 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 8 months
legalworking-ondjangovuenodejs
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