Summary
Steve Osteen is a Software Quality Assurance Manager based in California with 15+ years of hands-on QA and SDET experience across consumer devices and embedded Linux systems. He has led automation strategy and test-lab operations from startup environments to large product cycles, helping ship award-winning tablets and industry-leading digital signage players. Steve is skilled in building end-to-end automation frameworks (Python, Selenium, Jenkins), device farms, and results pipelines including PostgreSQL-backed dashboards, and has deep expertise in audio quality and Dolby certification testing. He combines technical leadership with practical tooling—creating logging, ADB, and automation utilities that accelerated release velocity at companies like Dell and Amazon’s Lab126. Known for blending blackbox and whitebox approaches, he often takes ownership of flaky, high-risk subsystems to make them stable and measurable. Outside the obvious QA remit, he brings audio engineering insight to testing high-fidelity media systems, a niche that has repeatedly informed his automation designs.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
NA Computer Information Systems, NA Computer Information Systems at California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, CA
Associate of Science - AS General Studies, Associate of Science - AS General Studies at De Anza College
AS General education Audio engineering, AS General education Audio engineering at De Anza Community College, Cupertino, CA