Chişinău, Chișinău, Moldova
Senior Quality Engineer with 8 years of experience delivering reliable, high-performing software products. Passionate about testing, quality, and helping teams build better solutions faster. 🔍 Strong focus on quality assurance, automation, and continuous improvement 🤝 Experienced in cross-functional collaboration and agile development 🧩 Skilled in identifying issues early and ensuring seamless user experiences 💬 Effective communicator and supportive mentor for QA and dev teams 🚀 Driven by curiosity, precision, and a commitment to excellence - with hands-on experience across self-service platforms, educational platforms, payment services, sports standings systems, startups, and complex billing services Professional achievements: - Helped speed up release testing by 30% through smarter regression coverage and clear documentation. - Ensured seamless and secure payment flows - from Auth and Capture to Refunds, 3DS, and webhooks. - Integrated Shift-Left approach: implemented pre-sprint QA reviews and Story Points, reducing rework and development overhead by 40% - Improved team communication: established a clear bug-reporting flow and delivery metrics to align developers and stakeholders - Built Agile/Scrum from scratch: defined ceremony calendar, task statuses, and transition criteria, speeding up team sync by 30%
• Performing manual testing for new features, regression, and hotfix validation across web and API layers • Applying risk-based testing, prioritizing coverage based on business and financial impact • Maintaining test documentation with clear checklists and regression sets for critical payment flows • Transforming production incidents into new regression cases or automated checks • Collaborating with developers and product owners to define test scope and validate fixes • Preparing concise QA summaries for each release, outlining scope, risks, and testing status • Testing payment flows such as Auth, Capture, Refund, 3DS, retries, webhooks, and idempotency (Stripe)
• Led collaboration with the Product Owner and project team to review and clarify project scope and requirements. • Led and contributed to defining the test approach/strategy for projects. • Supervised, reviewed, and authored the Test Suite—test scenarios and test cases traceable to requirements to validate the application and customer deliverables. • Participated in weekly project team meetings as the QA advocate. • Prepared test data for manual test cases. • Designed and executed performance tests. • Executed tests for business applications, online applications, document processing capabilities, and reporting deliverables. • Validated data and reporting using SQL and related tools. • Identified, documented, and tracked issues found during testing. • Coordinated with developers and project team members to triage and resolve issues. • Escalated risks that impacted project timelines and deliverables to the project team. • Assisted in the deployment verification of applications and customer deliverables. • Created and executed Web services (API) tests.
• Reviewing requirements, specifications, and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback • Creating detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases • Estimating, prioritizing, planning, and coordinating testing activities • Helping to quickly release. • Identifying, recording, documenting thoroughly, and tracking bugs • Working with Postman for API testing only basis queries • Performing thorough regression testing when bugs are fixed • Liaising with internal teams (e.g. developers and product managers) to identify system requirements • Leading and participating in project meetings. • Investigating the causes of non-conforming software and training users to implement solutions • Tracking quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and opening defect counts
• Launched Test Library from scratch including: test suites, test cases, test reports, and scopes for each release. • Worked with Pilot versions of the product • Worked closely with product owners to achieve maximum results from their ideas. • Actively participated in team development initiatives, meetings, and demos. • Analyzed new features, identified requirement gaps, created scenarios • Provided QA effort estimations • Reviewed and contributed to the revision of acceptance criteria for accuracy, clarity, and completeness • Organized the working process in the whole team, namely, correct distribution of tickets on the board, the correct connection between the Dev Team and the QA team • Created a User Manual Guide for the designed product. • Lead the Demo meeting and guided updates on the product for Product Owners • Created UAT Documentation
• Logged test results and bug reports. • Executed test plans and test scripts for accurate measures of the products performance. • Ran batch jobs and triggered batch processes. • Helped to quickly release. • Assisted in more than 20 successfully releases. • Worked with SQL database. • Designed test data based on business/functional requirements. • Developed testing scenarios for regression testing. • Led and participated in project meetings. • Worked closely with UI to improve testability of requirements specifications. • Worked closely with team members to deliver project requirements, develop solutions and meet deadlines. • Experience with QA software management tool like MTM, TFS. • Worked with Swagger for API testing.