Summary
Steve Cutting is a seasoned Software Quality Assurance Engineer with 11 years of professional QA experience and more than two decades in engineering and testing roles across CAE and enterprise software. He has led testing teams at Bentley and Rebis, managed QA for medical imaging and instrumentation at Quantitative Medical Systems, and currently drives quality at Gatan Inc., blending deep domain knowledge in engineering products with modern SDLC practices. Skilled in black-box and exploratory testing, test automation and risk-based strategies, he pairs hands-on automation expertise with strengths in requirements analysis and cross-functional communication. Steve brings rare experience with both legacy engineering tools (AutoPIPE, STAAD.Pro, Mathcad) and contemporary QA toolchains, enabling smooth collaboration with global development teams. Known as a committed continuous learner, he emphasizes process improvement and pragmatic testing that reduces cycle time while preserving safety-critical quality.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Civil Engineering, BS, Civil Engineering at University of Washington