Dragos S. - QA Tech Lead

Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Experience

Feb 2022 - Present

3 years 9 months

Frankfurt, Germany

Establishing and enforcing strong technical standards within and across teams
Define the required standard in line with overall strategy and communicate across respective technology teams
Understand business and technical requirements and implement them in an effective and timely manner across teams
Mentor Junior and Mid Quality Assurance engineers on their path towards seniority
Provide regular feedback and participate in technical interviews
Contribute proactively to solution architecture
Design, align, and create solutions for future features according to overall architecture concept and business requirements
Clarify and communicate decisions from system architects into respective teams
Challenge business requirements in workshops, refinements, and planning to arrive at the best possible solution
Drive QA solution delivery in and across the team and support the full QA process
Execute code reviews for critical tests and integrate them into CI/CD
Participate in running, monitoring, and maintaining the application in production
Follow up on critical bugs in production systems
Help debug and solve problems in a timely manner

Aug 2020 - Jan 2022

1 year 6 months

Frankfurt, Germany

Create and contribute to the QA strategy
Create and implement different QA automation frameworks for various testing purposes
Improve quality within the platform
Contribute to CI/CD using GitLab
Create the release process

Feb 2019 - Oct 2019

9 months

St. Louis, United States

Jul 2017 - Aug 2020

3 years 2 months

Iași, Romania

Analyze and review specifications received from business analyst or product owner within the project
Create test plans using Confluence
Create and execute manual and automated test cases and analyze test results
Report and document bugs, tasks, and stories using Jira
Perform functional testing (smoke testing, regression testing, integration testing) and non-functional testing (load testing, performance testing) on all testing levels (integration, system, and acceptance)
Perform front-end and back-end automation using Selenium with Java & JUnit and Geb with Groovy & Spock
Perform mobile automation for Android and iOS using Appium with Java
Perform backend manual testing using Postman for testing microservices and APIs
Conduct load testing using JMeter
Implement CI/CD using Jenkins
Propose software improvements to enhance user experience
Collaborate and coordinate with software developers to enhance and improve the product

Jan 2015 - Jul 2017

2 years 7 months

Iași, Romania

Manage data in IMDS: test, check, request, track, update data, clarify open items, and send data to customers worldwide
Perform SAP tasks as maintenance user for projects of varying complexity: submit new products and parts, create documents and material numbers, check and classify documents, and create product structures
Document and manage electronic change numbers (ECNs) and bills of materials (BOMs) according to project rules and needs
Support project-related tasks such as generating specific reports, collecting project data, and supporting prototype builds