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B2B transportation platform, connecting retailers and carriers

• Implemented a solution for testing carrier integrations used by Technical Product Managers, based on Typescript, Nodejs, Jest and Axios, in a monorepo, using Gitlab pipelines as runners.
• Implementing several performance/load test projects, based on k6.io, used for benchmarking REST services, UI apps and for evaluating performance for new releases in Dev/Tests environments
• Implementing regression tests using Typescript/Node
• E2E testing using Playwright
• Test planning, test strategies

Worked on a P2P platform, used by medium/large enterprises and governments

• Implemented a UI E2E testing framework based on Playwright and JUnit, with the main goal of reducing Production bugs and speeding up releases by significantly shortening the time needed for regression testing
• Implemented an API testing framework based on Java and Client SDKs
• Implemented several performance/load test projects, based on k6.io or plain Java, used for benchmarking REST services and Vaadin based UIs and for evaluating performance for new releases in Dev/Tests environments
• Wrote a Durable Azure Function in Typescript - used for running CI-based tests from CD Azure release pipelines
• Mentored team members
• Helped teams on defining test strategies specific to their services

Empowering businesses to streamline their lead generation and sales processes through intelligent prospecting, data enrichment, and CRM integration - and making sure it works GREAT

• Implemented UI/API smoke tests in a FE monorepo using Playwright
• Wrote a node service used for Production monitoring, exposing an API over UI synthetic tests
• Implemented Vue component testing using Vitest
• API testing with Karate
• Performance testing with k6.io
• Optimizations on CI/CD Gitlab pipelines
• Generate analytics reports on Databricks

Worked on a revolutionary Ruby on Rails/React/Nextjs Hopin events platform as part of the Engineering Productivity team:

• Helped the organization move towards real CI/CD, moving from weekly manual Production deployments to several daily releases, validated by several layers of tests
• Built endpoints in the monolith used for generating test data in test environments, used by e2e, performance, and acceptance tests.
• Significantly improved E2E TestCafe tests speed by refactoring for parallelization, generating test data directly into the backend, applying best coding practices
• Refactored or created TypeScript packages used by several tools into a monorepo driven by Lerna
• Mentored engineers around tests implementation (TestCafe, Pytest), best practices, test strategies

Worked on a large AML cutting-edge platform based on web services built with Python (Flask) and Node/TypeScript, k8s/AWS, Kafka:

• Implemented automation test tooling, developed test strategies while promoting quality best practices
• Built test tooling for validating the transition from a PHP monolith to several microservices
• Built a load/performance test framework based on k6.io, used extensively for Production environments optimizations
• Built an E2E test regression framework based on Cypress.io; E2E backend test regression framework based on Python/Pytest;implemented testing best practices in several services (testing in isolation the Angular frontend with Cypress, service virtualization using Mountebank)
• Implemented testing in isolation of microservices based on event streaming (Kafka)
• Redone ComplyAdvantage Public API documentation from plain HTML to Hugo/Slate static site generator (see here: https://docs.complyadvantage.com/api-docs/)
• Managed a team of 8 test engineers, built test projects for hiring purposes, handled technical interviews. Part of several committees focused on best practices, processes improvement

Worked on an innovative micro-learning platform based on a microservices modern architecture using Spring Boot in AWS:

• Backend API/contract testing using Spring Test, Rest-Assured, Spring Cloud Contracts
• Load/performance testing using Locust.io/Gatling
• Mobile testing IOS/Android with Appium/Java
• UI E2E testing with Cypress
• Built a tool for generating test data based on Python

Worked on Kno (acquired by Intel) education platform, designed and implemented test tooling:

• Built a framework for testing REST API and reporting results to Rally, using Jersey, TestNG, GSON
• Built a framework for Web UI testing, using Selenium WebDriver + Selenium Grid + Java and TestNG
• Built an API monitoring app based on MeteorJS, React, MongoDB, Bootstrap
• Desktop app testing based on Sikuli/Java
• Mobile testing using Appium/Java
• Built a Sinatra (Ruby) web app for daily environment checks and history

Here’s a presentation I did for ITDays (in Romanian) while at Intel, about Selenium web testing best practices.

Worked on Ullink trading platform, in several SCRUM-based projects: risk management, high load DMA orders monitoring, core platform.

• Server-side automation testing using an in-house testing framework based on Java/jUnit
• Load, stress, performance testing using in-house tools
• Test cases design and test planning, Functional testing, requirements analysis
• Maintained knowledge base and tools in the local branch QA community; handle QA interviews and recruiting process

Developing test automation (Java-based, TestNG framework), server-side testing in a powerful trading platform:

• Crossing product (light and dark pools)
• Backend servers automation
• Testing fixes and changes in Stage environment (identical to production environment), last step before production deployment
• Coping with tight deadlines, high risks

Manual and automation testing for large telecom (CRM systems) and media providers (video transcoding, video avatars generation), led the QA community

• Requirements analysis, test planning, test development and execution for a top Telecom company
• Automation testing using HP QuickTest
• Selenium RC (now WebDriver) UI automation, Hibernate and JUnit testing server-side
• Manual and automated testing on mobile devices using DeviceAnywhere - remote solution

Development and testing in a mobile data sync platform

• Load and performance testing using in-house tools
• Functional testing (SyncML based product)
• Developing Java modules for SyncML handsets compliance
• JBOSS application deployment and testing

My first job, before starting an IT career. I learned a lot about communicating with clients, both on the phone and in person, about coping with work stress, about helping teammates.