Test Architect

Summary

-* years of experience mainly in automation testing, Java, JavaScript testing frameworks in Financial and Gaming fields.

-Experience as a Test Architect, specialized on back-end and web services testing frameworks.

-Good knowledge in: Java (RestAssured, TestNG), Vert.x, JavaScript, Groovy, Python, Selenium, Test Complete.

-Experience with functional testing, non-functional (Load and Performance) testing.

Experience

Test Architect – permanent, remote

Odobo Ltd., Gibraltar – Gambling & Casinos 2015.12 – 2016.06

-Responsible for the overall testing approach, both manual and automated. Looking for the optimum test approach that suites the needs of the company.

-Fully refactored the in-house developed tool in Java, using RestAssured for testing the REST APIs.

-Evaluate and suggest improvements on currently used testing frameworks; perform code reviews on the automated tests already implemented; offer trainings and support on all the automated frameworks.

-Evaluate the testing tools available on the market – suggest the ones that fit best for the company’s requirements.

-Design and implement new tools that ease the work of testers

-Create Test Strategies for various projects.

QA Automation Engineer

Odobo Ltd., Gibraltar – Gambling & Casinos 2013.11 – 2015.12

-Created from scratch a test framework in Java for the Rest API of an internal financial application using RestAssured and TestNG

-Developed environment sanity check and installation testing python scripts.

-Chose Gatling as a load testing tool and developed the Load testing framework – training others to use it

-In-house mock application designed and developed from scratch in Vert.x using Groovy. Made configurable and easy to use by developers, manual and automation QAs.

-Maintenance and new features for the in-house performance test framework in Vertx/Java. The framework works with bots simulating multiple concurrent players.

-Created node.js app to help generating new bots for the performance framework based on the xsd file of the game.

-Game server performance testing managed with shell scripts. Wrote python scripts to insert metrics into OpenTSDB for generating visual results using Kibana integrated with ElasticSearch.

-Started to create Test Strategies for various projects to bring more structure to the testing process.

QA Technical Expert

Ullink, Romania – Financial Services 2011.08 – 2013.11

-Design and implement functional (smoke tests, integration) and non-functional (load and performance) test scripts using JavaScript in Test Complete.

-Run created scripts using Test Execute integrated with Spira Remote Launcher

-Being Point of Contact in the Cluj office for Test Complete and other internal tools

-Perform code reviews on the Test Complete automated scripts

-Document and implement a technique to measure a global performance index of the application (benchmarking)

-Trading software knowledge

-Tools used: Spira - test case management, Jira - Issue tracking

Quality Assurance Engineer

Betfair, Romania – Online Gambling 2010.12 – 2011.08

-Create test goals and write test cases using Agile methodology

-Automation Testing: NUnits (C#, Fluent NHibernate) and Selenium (Java)

-Test REST web services using SoapUI

-Identify, investigate and properly report the issues encountered with the automated tests

-Continuous integration tool: Hudson(Jenkins)

Quality Control Engineer

SoftVision, Romania 2010.03 – 2010.12

-Create test goals and write test cases using Agile methodology

-Test python reporting scripts using DBUnits.

-White box testing on Python scripts.

-Automating test cases using Selenium in Java.

-Experience with lifecycle defect management

Quality Control Specialist

Synygy, Romania – Management Consulting 2008.05 – 2010.03

-Create test goals and write test cases using Agile methodology

-Inspect design documents provided by developers

-Experience with lifecycle defect management

-Automate test cases using Selenium (Java)

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering 2004 – 2009

Gh. Asachi University in Iasi,Romania

Faculty of Automatic Control And Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering Department

Courses, certificates & awards

-Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL Server Course (2010)

-ISTQB Foundation (2011)

Professional skills and competencies

-Specialized in web services and performance automation testing using in-house developed frameworks (Vert.x, Java, JavaScript, C#)

-Load testing tools: Gatling

-Front-end automation frameworks: Selenium (Java), Test Complete (JavaScript)

-Analyze the testing approach, improve process and create Test Strategies, Test Plans.

-Issue tracking tools: Bugzilla and Jira

-Test case management tool: Mercury Quality Center, Spira, TestRail

-Continuous integration tool: Jenkins

-Programming languages: Java, JavaScript, Groovy, C#, Scala

-Scripting: Python, Shell

-Databases: MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, Couchbase

-Operating systems:

oMicrosoft Windows - installation, configuration, daily use, maintenance

oLinux – intermediate knowledge

oiOS - intermediate knowledge

-Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint

-Other: XML, JSON, CSV

-API testing tool: SoapUI (beginner level)

Foreign Languages (writing/speech/reading):

-English (advanced, advanced, advanced)

-Spanish (beginner, beginner, medium)

-French (beginner, beginner, beginner)

Extra:

-Testing article published in an international magazine TestingExperience (www.testingexperience.com) in March 2013 issue with title “Testers – a continuously evolving species”

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