Stefan Friese

WORK

Head of Software Engineering Quality
Adecco Group

Senior Software Engineering Manager
HERE Technologies

Development Team Lead at HERE Technologies (until 2015 NOKIA), working in Berlin. Leading a team that builds enterprise-scale Continuous Integration & Delivery services, i.e. to automate testing and release automation in CI&CD. Those microservices (hosted on AWS) provide innovative testing capabilities and are used by development teams across the company.

The team is part of a platform team which evangelizes DevOps and SRE and improves the Engineering Productivity.

Team management, Hiring and recruitment, Coaching and mentoring.

Collaborating at Agile and DevOps transformation initiatives.

Test Automation Architecture: Define and drive test automation strategy, i.e. continuous integration test stage concepts with the goal to empower development teams.

Member of advisory board
ditcraft UG

Testability Guideline

Visiting Lecturer
Code University of Applied Science, Berlin

• Continuous Everything class about CI/CD, DevOps, SRE

Test Automation Team Lead (Lead Engineer)
NOKIA (now HERE Technologies)

• Building and leading a team of six performance test specialists and software engineers in test to develop a test automation framework.
• Ensured SLAs and SLOs by establishing and heading performance and failover tests for a webservices based platform, hosted on AWS (serving appr. 10.000 queries per second).
• Agreed with strategic partners (e.g. Amazon, Bing, Yahoo) test strategy.
• Contributed to ISO and A-Spice process definitions and participated in ISO certifications.

Test Manager
NAVTEQ (now HERE Technologies)

• Initiated load testing and performance tuning of multiple REST webservices.
• Building and leading a team of four performance test engineers.

Test Engineering Manager
NAVIGON (now Garmin)

• Initiated load testing and performance tuning of multiple REST webservices.
• Building and leading a team of four performance test engineers.

Software Developer
NAVIGON (now Garmin)

• Advanced as C++, C# software developer a map data compiler tool.

EDUCATION

Applikations-Entwickler für Geo-Informationssysteme (GIS)
Siemens Business Services, Düsseldorf

Diplom-Geograph
Universität zu Köln

• Major fields of study: Urban Planning and Geoinformatics
• Diploma Thesis: „Postmoderne Stadtteilerneuerung am Beispiel einer Commercial Strip: Die Fallstudie Target Area Designation Program, Portland, OR (USA)“

Semesters abroad (Geography and Urban Studies)
Portland State University

Städtebau (City Planning)
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Minor subject

Certificates

Lean Leader
Udemy

Agile Testing Fellow

Lean Six Sigma White Belt

intacs Provisional Assessor Automotive Spice

Scrum Master

ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level

Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 Platform 1.4

Publications

Architectually Aligned Testing
InfoQ

What is Continuous Testing?
Wordpress

Testing the Unexpected: A Shift Right in DevOps Testing
StickyMinds

Production Like Performance
InfoQ

Conference Talks

Continuous Testing Presentation
Quality Meetup, Berlin