Quality Assurance Engineer and Release Manager available for DIGIT-TM III, EU-institution ICT, and freelancing assignments, remotely, B2B.
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Quality Assurance
Release Management
Test Management
Test Strategy
Release Readiness
UAT
QA Governance
Defect Management
Risk-Based Testing
Change Management
API Testing
Integration Testing
Jira
ServiceNow
TestRail
CI/CD
English
C2
French
B1/B2
German
Romanian
native, C2

Einsatzorte

Einsatzorte

Deutschland, Schweiz, Österreich

möglich

Projekte

Projekte

5 months
2026-05 - now

QA and Release Management - QA Service Model and Governance Framework Implementation

Quality Assurance Engineer / QA Process Improvement Consultant Atlassian Jira Atlassian Confluence Microsoft 365 ...
Quality Assurance Engineer / QA Process Improvement Consultant

  • Conduct quality assessments by analysing test evidence, coverage, defects, risks and delivery practices against agreed quality expectations.

Atlassian Jira Atlassian Confluence Microsoft 365 Postman REST APIs SQL Agile software development Scrum Information systems quality assurance and quality control Quality assurance planning and test strategy Test management and test campaign coordination Risk-based testing Test-data management and validation Defect management and defect tracking Quality-risk management and risk registers Structured test reporting and quality-status reporting Quality assessments process reviews and evaluation of deliverables Quality gates and acceptance evidence Continuous quality improvement Generative AI OpenAI ChatGPT Anthropic Claude
Confidential software service providers
2 years 10 months
2023-08 - 2026-05

LSEG Workspace Multi-Platform Delivery and Release Programme

Senior QA & Release Manager Atlassian Jira Atlassian Confluence TestRail ...
Senior QA & Release Manager

  • Conducted quality assessments using manual test results, CI/CD signals, automated tests, defect metrics and production-monitoring evidence.

Atlassian Jira Atlassian Confluence TestRail Xray for Jira ServiceNow Microsoft Power BI GitLab CI/CD Jenkins Git Cypress SonarSource SonarQube Datadog REST APIs Postman GitHub Actions SOAP APIs Swagger / OpenAPI Specification Microsoft 365 OpenAI ChatGPT Anthropic Claude Microsoft Copilot Asana Agile software development Scrum Information systems quality assurance and quality control Quality assurance planning and test strategy Test management and test campaign coordination Risk-based testing Quality assessments process reviews and evaluation of deliverables Quality-risk management and risk registers Defect management and defect tracking Defect metrics quality trends and root-cause analysis Test-data management and validation Test-environment management User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Quality gates and acceptance evidence Quality metrics and KPI analysis/reporting Audit-ready quality evidence and quality-control evaluation Continuous quality improvement
LSEG - Data & Analytics
4 years 11 months
2018-09 - 2023-07

UBS Public Websites and Digital Marketing Platform

Senior QA Manager / Quality Assurance Engineer Atlassian Jira Atlassian Confluence Zephyr ...
Senior QA Manager / Quality Assurance Engineer

The programme covered the continuous development and release of public banking websites, digital marketing journeys and specialised web applications for UBS business and asset-management areas. The digital estate included content-management and publishing workflows, digital assets, reusable components, multilingual and localised websites, email journeys, APIs and third-party integrations. Delivery was distributed across several international Agile squads serving multiple business stakeholders, markets and customer-facing digital journeys. The programme operated in a regulated banking environment subject to GDPR, Swiss data-protection requirements and internal quality and governance controls. Key challenges included maintaining consistent quality across localised journeys, validating complex integrations and non-functional behaviour, coordinating testing across environments and providing traceable evidence for acceptance and release decisions.

  • Led QA strategy and coordinated multi-team test delivery across four distributed Agile squads while managing a team of 15 QA engineers.
  • Developed QA plans and test strategies covering scope, estimates, schedules, coverage, environments, test data, quality controls and acceptance criteria.
  • Coordinated functional, integration, regression, API, exploratory, accessibility, compatibility, localisation and performance/load test campaigns.
  • Created and approved Test Strategies, Test Plans and Test Summary Reports and presented quality status, residual risk and evidence-based recommendations to stakeholders.
  • Maintained quality-risk registers, audit evidence and defect metrics; analysed quality trends and root causes and coordinated corrective and preventive actions.
  • Conducted process reviews and quality assessments, introduced QA playbooks and Definition of Ready/Done standards, and continuously improved manual and automated quality controls.

Atlassian Jira Atlassian Confluence Zephyr Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Adobe Campaign Jenkins Apache JMeter BrowserStack Selenium WebDriver Cypress Microsoft Playwright Applitools Postman Inc. Newman CLI Git Java Storybook Chromatic Swagger / OpenAPI Specification REST APIs SOAP APIs Agile software development Scrum Information systems quality assurance and quality control Quality assurance planning and test strategy Test management and test campaign coordination Risk-based testing Defect management and defect tracking Quality-risk management and risk registers Test-data management and validation Test-environment management Functional testing Integration testing Regression testing API testing User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Exploratory testing Accessibility testing Compatibility and cross-browser testing Localisation testing Performance and load testing Quality assessments process reviews and evaluation of deliverables Audit-ready quality evidence and quality-control evaluation Continuous quality improvement
UBS Switzerland - Global Digital Marketing, Asset Management, and Funds Divisions
1 year 7 months
2017-01 - 2018-07

Avangate Global E-commerce and Payment Platform

QA Lead / Quality Assurance Engineer Atlassian Jira Atlassian Confluence Postman ...
QA Lead / Quality Assurance Engineer

The project covered the continuous development and release of a proprietary global e-commerce and payments platform used by software vendors and other digital businesses. The platform supported online checkout and payment journeys, transactional data processing, account and vendor functions, APIs and integrations with external payment and business systems. Delivery was organised through cross-functional Agile teams, with frequent product changes affecting customer transactions, payment flows and vendor revenue. The environment required reliable integration behaviour, accurate transactional data and strong regression control across interconnected services. Key challenges included complex payment scenarios, external-system dependencies, broad regression scope, security-sensitive functionality and maintaining product quality while increasing delivery cadence.

  • Defined risk-based test strategies, test plans, scope, estimates, priorities and coverage for payment journeys, APIs, transactional data and system integrations.
  • Coordinated functional, integration, regression, end-to-end and API test campaigns throughout Agile sprint and release cycles.
  • Designed and executed REST/SOAP API, SQL and functional tests, applying structured test-design techniques and incorporating OWASP-focused security checks.
  • Managed defect tracking, triage, investigation, prioritisation, retesting and release-impact assessment according to customer and payment risk.
  • Analysed recurring defects and root-cause themes and introduced Definition of Ready/Done standards, risk matrices and improved quality-control practices.
  • Maintained structured test results and quality evidence for acceptance decisions and developed CI-integrated regression checks that reduced manual regression effort by 75%.

Atlassian Jira Atlassian Confluence Postman REST APIs SOAP APIs REST Assured SQL Jenkins Git PHP Behat/Gherkin OWASP-focused security testing Agile software development Scrum Information systems quality assurance and quality control Quality assurance planning and test strategy Test planning and test-results management Test management and test campaign coordination Risk-based testing Test design and test-case design Functional testing Integration testing Regression testing API testing Test-data management and validation Defect management and defect tracking defect triage Defect metrics quality trends and root-cause analysis Quality gates and acceptance evidence Continuous quality improvement
Avangate / 2Checkout product organisation
4 years 2 months
2012-11 - 2016-12

Early-Career Web, Telecom UAT and Product QA Delivery Assignments

UAT Test Lead / Quality Assurance Engineer Atlassian Jira Atlassian Confluence HP ALM ...
UAT Test Lead / Quality Assurance Engineer

This entry consolidates continuous early-career QA assignments delivered through third-party vendors and product companies. The contractual structure changed during the period, but the work represented a continuous QA career-start period across related web, telecom UAT and product QA delivery.

  • The Vodafone workstream covered UAT and acceptance testing for digital customer journeys and service changes delivered in an Agile environment. The delivery model involved internal teams and external suppliers, including a large UAT organisation working across Bucharest and Utrecht.
  • The Advanced Web Ranking workstream covered release validation for a proprietary desktop and web-related product used for SEO rank tracking and reporting. The product required validation across supported operating systems, browsers, product versions and customer configurations.
  • Across the period, the common project context was web, telecom, e-commerce and product QA delivery, with frequent changes in vendor or organisational setup. The work remained continuous in practical terms and built the foundation for later QA lead, UAT lead and test-management responsibilities.
  • The main challenges were coordinating acceptance evidence, reproducing customer-visible defects, validating compatibility across platforms, managing changing requirements and supporting release decisions in distributed delivery environments.


Tasks & responsibilities:

  • Coordinated day-to-day UAT and QA execution across telecom web/e-commerce and product-release assignments, including a 300-person UAT organisation across Bucharest and Utrecht.
  • Reviewed requirements and acceptance criteria and created test plans, scenarios, test cases, execution logs and traceable evidence.
  • Managed defects, blockers, dependencies, workload and testing status; led daily Scrum and represented UAT in senior weekly planning.
  • Validated internal and supplier deliverables and approved consolidated Test Summary and sign-off reports covering results, open defects, residual risk and acceptance status.
  • Performed hands-on functional, exploratory, regression, API, SQL, cross-platform, compatibility and accessibility testing.
  • Investigated customer-reported issues, supported defect triage and retesting, and communicated quality status and release risk to stakeholders.

Atlassian Jira Atlassian Confluence HP ALM REST APIs SQL Microsoft Windows Apple macOS Linux WordPress Manual testing User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Functional testing Regression testing Exploratory testing Compatibility and cross-browser testing Accessibility testing Test planning and test-results management Structured test reporting and quality-status reporting Defect management and defect tracking Acceptance criteria Quality gates and acceptance evidence Agile software development Scrum
Vodafone Netherlands / Vodafone Turkey / Vodafone Romania; Advanced Web Ranking

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Aus- und Weiterbildung

10/2006 - 02/2011

Master?s degree of 5 years or equivalent

Bachelor?s degree of 3 years

Certificate or diploma: Architecture Degree

Institute: ?Spiru Haret? University, Faculty of Architecture, Bucharest, Romania


07/2004

Secondary school


Certification(s)

  • Adobe Certified Expert - Adobe Experience Manager Sites Business Practitioner, Issued by Adobe
  • Professional Scrum Master I, Scrum.org
  • ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level, Issued by South East European Testing Board (SEETB)
  • Cambridge English Level 3 Certificate in ESOL International, Certificate of Proficiency in English, Council of Europe Level C2, Issued by Cambridge English Language Assessment, Part of the University of Cambridge

Position

Position

  • ICT Consultant - Quality Assurance & Release Management

Kompetenzen

Kompetenzen

Top-Skills

Quality Assurance Release Management Test Management Test Strategy Release Readiness UAT QA Governance Defect Management Risk-Based Testing Change Management API Testing Integration Testing Jira ServiceNow TestRail CI/CD

Produkte / Standards / Erfahrungen / Methoden

Professional experience

  • Date IT career started: 11/2012
  • Number of years/months of experience (apart from the studies): 13 years and 8 months (164 months total)


Specific expertise(s) (with number of months experience for each)

  • Information systems quality assurance and quality control - 164 months
  • Agile software development - 164 months
  • Scrum - 164 months
  • Defect management, tracking and triage - 164 months
  • Structured test reporting and quality-status reporting - 164 months
  • Web application testing - 164 months
  • Information systems lifecycle / Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) - 164 months
  • Software Testing Lifecycle (STLC) - 164 months
  • Functional testing - 164 months
  • Integration testing - 164 months
  • Regression testing - 164 months
  • API testing - 164 months
  • Manual testing - 164 months
  • Test design and test-case design - 164 months
  • Test planning and test-results management - 164 months
  • Quality gates and acceptance evidence - 164 months
  • User Acceptance Testing (UAT) - 145 months
  • Requirements analysis - 133 months
  • Acceptance criteria - 129 months
  • Quality assurance planning and test strategy - 114 months
  • Test management and test campaign coordination - 114 months
  • Risk-based testing - 114 months
  • Test coverage analysis - 114 months
  • QA governance and quality control - 114 months
  • Continuous quality improvement - 114 months
  • Test-data management and validation - 114 months
  • Accessibility testing - 109 months
  • Compatibility and cross-browser testing - 109 months
  • Exploratory testing -109 months
  • IS quality-control procedures and internal quality standards - 95 months
  • Implementation and review of internal QA procedures and standards - 95 months
  • Quality improvement recommendations and preventive actions - 95 months
  • Quality-risk management and risk registers - 95 months
  • Test-environment management - 95 months
  • Quality assessments, process reviews and evaluation of deliverables - 94 months
  • Non-functional testing - 91 months
  • Audit-ready quality evidence and quality-control evaluation - 91 months
  • Test automation support - 78 months
  • Performance and load testing - 59 months
  • Localisation testing - 59 months
  • Quality metrics and KPI analysis/reporting - 32 months
  • OWASP-focused security testing - 19 months


CV Summary

  • She is a Quality Assurance Engineer and QA leader with 13+ years of experience across complex enterprise programmes and SaaS platforms, including regulated banking, financial-data, payments and telecom environments. Her experience aligns strongly with the DIGIT-TM III Quality Assurance Engineer profile, combining quality governance and test management with substantial hands-on testing.
  • She develops and maintains practical quality-control procedures, QA strategies and test plans, coordinates multi-team test campaigns, manages defect and quality risks, and reports quality status, metrics and recommendations to technical and senior stakeholders. She has maintained project and quality risk registers, supported internal and external audits, assessed supplier deliverables and provided evidence for acceptance, residual risk and go/no-go decisions.
  • Her technical scope covers functional, non-functional, API, integration, regression, UAT, exploratory, accessibility, compatibility and performance testing. She has strong experience with Jira, Confluence, TestRail, Zephyr, Xray, Postman, SQL, JMeter, Selenium, Cypress and CI/CD quality signals. She holds the mandatory ISTQB Foundation certification and works fluently in English at C2 level.


Software Expertise

  • Atlassian Jira: Test management, defect tracking, test-campaign coordination, coverage tracking, quality workflows, risk/issue follow-up, reporting and QA governance. 
  • Atlassian Confluence: Test documentation, QA standards, quality-control procedures, test strategies and plans, Test Summary Reports, audit evidence, stakeholder documentation and reusable QA governance assets. 
  • REST APIs: API and integration validation, request/response analysis, data-flow verification, negative testing and defect investigation.
  • Postman: API testing, exploratory validation, authentication, payload and response analysis, negative scenarios, integration testing and defect reproduction. 
  • Jenkins: CI-integrated regression checks, automated quality controls and pipeline-result monitoring supporting quality assessment. 
  • Git: Source control supporting automated testing, CI workflows and collaboration on quality-engineering assets. 
  • SOAP APIs: SOAP service and integration validation, request/response analysis and defect investigation. 
  • Cypress: UI/API automation support, regression coverage and automated-result analysis. 
  • Swagger / OpenAPI Specification: API specification review, endpoint and schema analysis, request/response validation, dependency analysis and test-coverage definition. 
  • SQL: Backend, transactional and integration-data validation and test-data investigation. 
  • Adobe Experience Manager (AEM): Testing of CMS/DAM workflows, reusable components, publishing processes, localisation and system integrations. 
  • Adobe Campaign: Testing of digital-marketing workflows, email journeys, customer communications and associated integrations. 
  • Zephyr: Test planning, execution management, coverage tracking, defect linkage and test-results reporting. 
  • Apache JMeter: Performance and load testing of web journeys, APIs and relevant integrations. 
  • BrowserStack: Cross-browser, cross-device and compatibility testing across localised customer journeys. 
  • Java: Supported the modular UI/API automation framework and associated automated regression coverage. 
  • Selenium WebDriver: Selenium-based UI automation and regression support, including later migration toward newer automation approaches. 
  • Microsoft Playwright: Evaluated through proof-of-concept work for modern UI automation and repeatable web validation. 
  • Applitools: Automated visual validation and regression checking of customer-facing web journeys. 
  • Storybook: Component-level review and testing of reusable user-interface components. 
  • Chromatic: Visual and component regression testing of reusable UI elements. 
  • Postman, Inc. Newman CLI: Execution of Postman collections for repeatable API validation and CI-integrated regression checks. 
  • Microsoft Windows: Cross-platform application, desktop and browser testing. 
  • Apple macOS: Cross-platform application, desktop and browser testing. 
  • Linux: Cross-platform application, desktop and browser testing. 
  • WordPress: Creation, validation and maintenance of technical and customer-facing web content and documentation. 
  • HP ALM: Test execution tracking, defect management, test evidence, UAT management and reporting support. 
  • Anthropic Claude: AI-assisted review, synthesis and drafting for QA analysis, risk identification, defect clustering, quality documentation and test-strategy work, with human validation. 
  • OpenAI ChatGPT: AI-assisted change-impact, dependency and risk analysis, defect and incident synthesis, test-coverage analysis, QA documentation and test-strategy development. 
  • Microsoft 365: Documentation, reporting, analysis and stakeholder collaboration supporting QA and quality governance. 
  • GitLab CI/CD: Review of CI/CD pipeline results and automated quality signals supporting regression investigation and quality assessment. 
  • GitHub Actions: CI workflow and automated-quality-signal support used in quality and regression assessment. 
  • Datadog: Review of production-monitoring signals during defect investigation, incident analysis and post-release quality assessment. 
  • Microsoft Copilot: AI-assisted change-impact, dependency, defect-analysis and reporting activities with human validation. 
  • ServiceNow: Change and release evidence supporting quality-gate evaluation, traceability and audit-ready delivery records. 
  • Asana: Work tracking and cross-team coordination supporting delivery, dependency and quality follow-up. 
  • SonarSource / SonarQube: Review of automated code-quality and quality-gate signals supporting broader quality assessment. 
  • TestRail: Test management, execution tracking, test evidence, coverage monitoring and quality reporting. 
  • Xray for Jira: Test management, requirements-to-test traceability, execution evidence and reporting within Jira. 
  • REST Assured: REST API validation and automated integration checks for payment journeys and external-system integrations. 
  • Behat/Gherkin: Behaviour-driven development and CI-integrated regression checks for payment and e-commerce functionality. 
  • PHP: Development and maintenance of CI-integrated automated regression checks. 
  • Microsoft PowerBI: Quality dashboards, KPI and metric analysis, defect visibility and consolidated reporting. 

Einsatzorte

Einsatzorte

Deutschland, Schweiz, Österreich

möglich

Projekte

Projekte

5 months
2026-05 - now

QA and Release Management - QA Service Model and Governance Framework Implementation

Quality Assurance Engineer / QA Process Improvement Consultant Atlassian Jira Atlassian Confluence Microsoft 365 ...
Quality Assurance Engineer / QA Process Improvement Consultant

  • Conduct quality assessments by analysing test evidence, coverage, defects, risks and delivery practices against agreed quality expectations.

Atlassian Jira Atlassian Confluence Microsoft 365 Postman REST APIs SQL Agile software development Scrum Information systems quality assurance and quality control Quality assurance planning and test strategy Test management and test campaign coordination Risk-based testing Test-data management and validation Defect management and defect tracking Quality-risk management and risk registers Structured test reporting and quality-status reporting Quality assessments process reviews and evaluation of deliverables Quality gates and acceptance evidence Continuous quality improvement Generative AI OpenAI ChatGPT Anthropic Claude
Confidential software service providers
2 years 10 months
2023-08 - 2026-05

LSEG Workspace Multi-Platform Delivery and Release Programme

Senior QA & Release Manager Atlassian Jira Atlassian Confluence TestRail ...
Senior QA & Release Manager

  • Conducted quality assessments using manual test results, CI/CD signals, automated tests, defect metrics and production-monitoring evidence.

Atlassian Jira Atlassian Confluence TestRail Xray for Jira ServiceNow Microsoft Power BI GitLab CI/CD Jenkins Git Cypress SonarSource SonarQube Datadog REST APIs Postman GitHub Actions SOAP APIs Swagger / OpenAPI Specification Microsoft 365 OpenAI ChatGPT Anthropic Claude Microsoft Copilot Asana Agile software development Scrum Information systems quality assurance and quality control Quality assurance planning and test strategy Test management and test campaign coordination Risk-based testing Quality assessments process reviews and evaluation of deliverables Quality-risk management and risk registers Defect management and defect tracking Defect metrics quality trends and root-cause analysis Test-data management and validation Test-environment management User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Quality gates and acceptance evidence Quality metrics and KPI analysis/reporting Audit-ready quality evidence and quality-control evaluation Continuous quality improvement
LSEG - Data & Analytics
4 years 11 months
2018-09 - 2023-07

UBS Public Websites and Digital Marketing Platform

Senior QA Manager / Quality Assurance Engineer Atlassian Jira Atlassian Confluence Zephyr ...
Senior QA Manager / Quality Assurance Engineer

The programme covered the continuous development and release of public banking websites, digital marketing journeys and specialised web applications for UBS business and asset-management areas. The digital estate included content-management and publishing workflows, digital assets, reusable components, multilingual and localised websites, email journeys, APIs and third-party integrations. Delivery was distributed across several international Agile squads serving multiple business stakeholders, markets and customer-facing digital journeys. The programme operated in a regulated banking environment subject to GDPR, Swiss data-protection requirements and internal quality and governance controls. Key challenges included maintaining consistent quality across localised journeys, validating complex integrations and non-functional behaviour, coordinating testing across environments and providing traceable evidence for acceptance and release decisions.

  • Led QA strategy and coordinated multi-team test delivery across four distributed Agile squads while managing a team of 15 QA engineers.
  • Developed QA plans and test strategies covering scope, estimates, schedules, coverage, environments, test data, quality controls and acceptance criteria.
  • Coordinated functional, integration, regression, API, exploratory, accessibility, compatibility, localisation and performance/load test campaigns.
  • Created and approved Test Strategies, Test Plans and Test Summary Reports and presented quality status, residual risk and evidence-based recommendations to stakeholders.
  • Maintained quality-risk registers, audit evidence and defect metrics; analysed quality trends and root causes and coordinated corrective and preventive actions.
  • Conducted process reviews and quality assessments, introduced QA playbooks and Definition of Ready/Done standards, and continuously improved manual and automated quality controls.

Atlassian Jira Atlassian Confluence Zephyr Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Adobe Campaign Jenkins Apache JMeter BrowserStack Selenium WebDriver Cypress Microsoft Playwright Applitools Postman Inc. Newman CLI Git Java Storybook Chromatic Swagger / OpenAPI Specification REST APIs SOAP APIs Agile software development Scrum Information systems quality assurance and quality control Quality assurance planning and test strategy Test management and test campaign coordination Risk-based testing Defect management and defect tracking Quality-risk management and risk registers Test-data management and validation Test-environment management Functional testing Integration testing Regression testing API testing User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Exploratory testing Accessibility testing Compatibility and cross-browser testing Localisation testing Performance and load testing Quality assessments process reviews and evaluation of deliverables Audit-ready quality evidence and quality-control evaluation Continuous quality improvement
UBS Switzerland - Global Digital Marketing, Asset Management, and Funds Divisions
1 year 7 months
2017-01 - 2018-07

Avangate Global E-commerce and Payment Platform

QA Lead / Quality Assurance Engineer Atlassian Jira Atlassian Confluence Postman ...
QA Lead / Quality Assurance Engineer

The project covered the continuous development and release of a proprietary global e-commerce and payments platform used by software vendors and other digital businesses. The platform supported online checkout and payment journeys, transactional data processing, account and vendor functions, APIs and integrations with external payment and business systems. Delivery was organised through cross-functional Agile teams, with frequent product changes affecting customer transactions, payment flows and vendor revenue. The environment required reliable integration behaviour, accurate transactional data and strong regression control across interconnected services. Key challenges included complex payment scenarios, external-system dependencies, broad regression scope, security-sensitive functionality and maintaining product quality while increasing delivery cadence.

  • Defined risk-based test strategies, test plans, scope, estimates, priorities and coverage for payment journeys, APIs, transactional data and system integrations.
  • Coordinated functional, integration, regression, end-to-end and API test campaigns throughout Agile sprint and release cycles.
  • Designed and executed REST/SOAP API, SQL and functional tests, applying structured test-design techniques and incorporating OWASP-focused security checks.
  • Managed defect tracking, triage, investigation, prioritisation, retesting and release-impact assessment according to customer and payment risk.
  • Analysed recurring defects and root-cause themes and introduced Definition of Ready/Done standards, risk matrices and improved quality-control practices.
  • Maintained structured test results and quality evidence for acceptance decisions and developed CI-integrated regression checks that reduced manual regression effort by 75%.

Atlassian Jira Atlassian Confluence Postman REST APIs SOAP APIs REST Assured SQL Jenkins Git PHP Behat/Gherkin OWASP-focused security testing Agile software development Scrum Information systems quality assurance and quality control Quality assurance planning and test strategy Test planning and test-results management Test management and test campaign coordination Risk-based testing Test design and test-case design Functional testing Integration testing Regression testing API testing Test-data management and validation Defect management and defect tracking defect triage Defect metrics quality trends and root-cause analysis Quality gates and acceptance evidence Continuous quality improvement
Avangate / 2Checkout product organisation
4 years 2 months
2012-11 - 2016-12

Early-Career Web, Telecom UAT and Product QA Delivery Assignments

UAT Test Lead / Quality Assurance Engineer Atlassian Jira Atlassian Confluence HP ALM ...
UAT Test Lead / Quality Assurance Engineer

This entry consolidates continuous early-career QA assignments delivered through third-party vendors and product companies. The contractual structure changed during the period, but the work represented a continuous QA career-start period across related web, telecom UAT and product QA delivery.

  • The Vodafone workstream covered UAT and acceptance testing for digital customer journeys and service changes delivered in an Agile environment. The delivery model involved internal teams and external suppliers, including a large UAT organisation working across Bucharest and Utrecht.
  • The Advanced Web Ranking workstream covered release validation for a proprietary desktop and web-related product used for SEO rank tracking and reporting. The product required validation across supported operating systems, browsers, product versions and customer configurations.
  • Across the period, the common project context was web, telecom, e-commerce and product QA delivery, with frequent changes in vendor or organisational setup. The work remained continuous in practical terms and built the foundation for later QA lead, UAT lead and test-management responsibilities.
  • The main challenges were coordinating acceptance evidence, reproducing customer-visible defects, validating compatibility across platforms, managing changing requirements and supporting release decisions in distributed delivery environments.


Tasks & responsibilities:

  • Coordinated day-to-day UAT and QA execution across telecom web/e-commerce and product-release assignments, including a 300-person UAT organisation across Bucharest and Utrecht.
  • Reviewed requirements and acceptance criteria and created test plans, scenarios, test cases, execution logs and traceable evidence.
  • Managed defects, blockers, dependencies, workload and testing status; led daily Scrum and represented UAT in senior weekly planning.
  • Validated internal and supplier deliverables and approved consolidated Test Summary and sign-off reports covering results, open defects, residual risk and acceptance status.
  • Performed hands-on functional, exploratory, regression, API, SQL, cross-platform, compatibility and accessibility testing.
  • Investigated customer-reported issues, supported defect triage and retesting, and communicated quality status and release risk to stakeholders.

Atlassian Jira Atlassian Confluence HP ALM REST APIs SQL Microsoft Windows Apple macOS Linux WordPress Manual testing User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Functional testing Regression testing Exploratory testing Compatibility and cross-browser testing Accessibility testing Test planning and test-results management Structured test reporting and quality-status reporting Defect management and defect tracking Acceptance criteria Quality gates and acceptance evidence Agile software development Scrum
Vodafone Netherlands / Vodafone Turkey / Vodafone Romania; Advanced Web Ranking

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Aus- und Weiterbildung

10/2006 - 02/2011

Master?s degree of 5 years or equivalent

Bachelor?s degree of 3 years

Certificate or diploma: Architecture Degree

Institute: ?Spiru Haret? University, Faculty of Architecture, Bucharest, Romania


07/2004

Secondary school


Certification(s)

  • Adobe Certified Expert - Adobe Experience Manager Sites Business Practitioner, Issued by Adobe
  • Professional Scrum Master I, Scrum.org
  • ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level, Issued by South East European Testing Board (SEETB)
  • Cambridge English Level 3 Certificate in ESOL International, Certificate of Proficiency in English, Council of Europe Level C2, Issued by Cambridge English Language Assessment, Part of the University of Cambridge

Position

Position

  • ICT Consultant - Quality Assurance & Release Management

Kompetenzen

Kompetenzen

Top-Skills

Quality Assurance Release Management Test Management Test Strategy Release Readiness UAT QA Governance Defect Management Risk-Based Testing Change Management API Testing Integration Testing Jira ServiceNow TestRail CI/CD

Produkte / Standards / Erfahrungen / Methoden

Professional experience

  • Date IT career started: 11/2012
  • Number of years/months of experience (apart from the studies): 13 years and 8 months (164 months total)


Specific expertise(s) (with number of months experience for each)

  • Information systems quality assurance and quality control - 164 months
  • Agile software development - 164 months
  • Scrum - 164 months
  • Defect management, tracking and triage - 164 months
  • Structured test reporting and quality-status reporting - 164 months
  • Web application testing - 164 months
  • Information systems lifecycle / Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) - 164 months
  • Software Testing Lifecycle (STLC) - 164 months
  • Functional testing - 164 months
  • Integration testing - 164 months
  • Regression testing - 164 months
  • API testing - 164 months
  • Manual testing - 164 months
  • Test design and test-case design - 164 months
  • Test planning and test-results management - 164 months
  • Quality gates and acceptance evidence - 164 months
  • User Acceptance Testing (UAT) - 145 months
  • Requirements analysis - 133 months
  • Acceptance criteria - 129 months
  • Quality assurance planning and test strategy - 114 months
  • Test management and test campaign coordination - 114 months
  • Risk-based testing - 114 months
  • Test coverage analysis - 114 months
  • QA governance and quality control - 114 months
  • Continuous quality improvement - 114 months
  • Test-data management and validation - 114 months
  • Accessibility testing - 109 months
  • Compatibility and cross-browser testing - 109 months
  • Exploratory testing -109 months
  • IS quality-control procedures and internal quality standards - 95 months
  • Implementation and review of internal QA procedures and standards - 95 months
  • Quality improvement recommendations and preventive actions - 95 months
  • Quality-risk management and risk registers - 95 months
  • Test-environment management - 95 months
  • Quality assessments, process reviews and evaluation of deliverables - 94 months
  • Non-functional testing - 91 months
  • Audit-ready quality evidence and quality-control evaluation - 91 months
  • Test automation support - 78 months
  • Performance and load testing - 59 months
  • Localisation testing - 59 months
  • Quality metrics and KPI analysis/reporting - 32 months
  • OWASP-focused security testing - 19 months


CV Summary

  • She is a Quality Assurance Engineer and QA leader with 13+ years of experience across complex enterprise programmes and SaaS platforms, including regulated banking, financial-data, payments and telecom environments. Her experience aligns strongly with the DIGIT-TM III Quality Assurance Engineer profile, combining quality governance and test management with substantial hands-on testing.
  • She develops and maintains practical quality-control procedures, QA strategies and test plans, coordinates multi-team test campaigns, manages defect and quality risks, and reports quality status, metrics and recommendations to technical and senior stakeholders. She has maintained project and quality risk registers, supported internal and external audits, assessed supplier deliverables and provided evidence for acceptance, residual risk and go/no-go decisions.
  • Her technical scope covers functional, non-functional, API, integration, regression, UAT, exploratory, accessibility, compatibility and performance testing. She has strong experience with Jira, Confluence, TestRail, Zephyr, Xray, Postman, SQL, JMeter, Selenium, Cypress and CI/CD quality signals. She holds the mandatory ISTQB Foundation certification and works fluently in English at C2 level.


Software Expertise

  • Atlassian Jira: Test management, defect tracking, test-campaign coordination, coverage tracking, quality workflows, risk/issue follow-up, reporting and QA governance. 
  • Atlassian Confluence: Test documentation, QA standards, quality-control procedures, test strategies and plans, Test Summary Reports, audit evidence, stakeholder documentation and reusable QA governance assets. 
  • REST APIs: API and integration validation, request/response analysis, data-flow verification, negative testing and defect investigation.
  • Postman: API testing, exploratory validation, authentication, payload and response analysis, negative scenarios, integration testing and defect reproduction. 
  • Jenkins: CI-integrated regression checks, automated quality controls and pipeline-result monitoring supporting quality assessment. 
  • Git: Source control supporting automated testing, CI workflows and collaboration on quality-engineering assets. 
  • SOAP APIs: SOAP service and integration validation, request/response analysis and defect investigation. 
  • Cypress: UI/API automation support, regression coverage and automated-result analysis. 
  • Swagger / OpenAPI Specification: API specification review, endpoint and schema analysis, request/response validation, dependency analysis and test-coverage definition. 
  • SQL: Backend, transactional and integration-data validation and test-data investigation. 
  • Adobe Experience Manager (AEM): Testing of CMS/DAM workflows, reusable components, publishing processes, localisation and system integrations. 
  • Adobe Campaign: Testing of digital-marketing workflows, email journeys, customer communications and associated integrations. 
  • Zephyr: Test planning, execution management, coverage tracking, defect linkage and test-results reporting. 
  • Apache JMeter: Performance and load testing of web journeys, APIs and relevant integrations. 
  • BrowserStack: Cross-browser, cross-device and compatibility testing across localised customer journeys. 
  • Java: Supported the modular UI/API automation framework and associated automated regression coverage. 
  • Selenium WebDriver: Selenium-based UI automation and regression support, including later migration toward newer automation approaches. 
  • Microsoft Playwright: Evaluated through proof-of-concept work for modern UI automation and repeatable web validation. 
  • Applitools: Automated visual validation and regression checking of customer-facing web journeys. 
  • Storybook: Component-level review and testing of reusable user-interface components. 
  • Chromatic: Visual and component regression testing of reusable UI elements. 
  • Postman, Inc. Newman CLI: Execution of Postman collections for repeatable API validation and CI-integrated regression checks. 
  • Microsoft Windows: Cross-platform application, desktop and browser testing. 
  • Apple macOS: Cross-platform application, desktop and browser testing. 
  • Linux: Cross-platform application, desktop and browser testing. 
  • WordPress: Creation, validation and maintenance of technical and customer-facing web content and documentation. 
  • HP ALM: Test execution tracking, defect management, test evidence, UAT management and reporting support. 
  • Anthropic Claude: AI-assisted review, synthesis and drafting for QA analysis, risk identification, defect clustering, quality documentation and test-strategy work, with human validation. 
  • OpenAI ChatGPT: AI-assisted change-impact, dependency and risk analysis, defect and incident synthesis, test-coverage analysis, QA documentation and test-strategy development. 
  • Microsoft 365: Documentation, reporting, analysis and stakeholder collaboration supporting QA and quality governance. 
  • GitLab CI/CD: Review of CI/CD pipeline results and automated quality signals supporting regression investigation and quality assessment. 
  • GitHub Actions: CI workflow and automated-quality-signal support used in quality and regression assessment. 
  • Datadog: Review of production-monitoring signals during defect investigation, incident analysis and post-release quality assessment. 
  • Microsoft Copilot: AI-assisted change-impact, dependency, defect-analysis and reporting activities with human validation. 
  • ServiceNow: Change and release evidence supporting quality-gate evaluation, traceability and audit-ready delivery records. 
  • Asana: Work tracking and cross-team coordination supporting delivery, dependency and quality follow-up. 
  • SonarSource / SonarQube: Review of automated code-quality and quality-gate signals supporting broader quality assessment. 
  • TestRail: Test management, execution tracking, test evidence, coverage monitoring and quality reporting. 
  • Xray for Jira: Test management, requirements-to-test traceability, execution evidence and reporting within Jira. 
  • REST Assured: REST API validation and automated integration checks for payment journeys and external-system integrations. 
  • Behat/Gherkin: Behaviour-driven development and CI-integrated regression checks for payment and e-commerce functionality. 
  • PHP: Development and maintenance of CI-integrated automated regression checks. 
  • Microsoft PowerBI: Quality dashboards, KPI and metric analysis, defect visibility and consolidated reporting. 

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