Intro
It all started rather as a joke I could say, during the first university year when I applied to Electronic Arts Romania
for a Manual Quality Assurance Tester position. There I was basically doing what any teenager was
dreaming, playing video-games and getting paid for it. After some time passed and I kept finding
bugs and asking an exhaustive amount of questions to developers, I realized that I actually enjoy
doing Quality Assurance work and wanted to change the "domain" a little, by experimenting with
Software Testing, specifically, testing web applications.
The Software Testing journey began at Under Development Office, where they trusted me to
learn enough to become a valuable asset to their at that time, QA-less team. There I got introduced
to a humongous amount of tools, frameworks, blockchain and so forth, enough to peak my interest and make me
learn more and more. After about one and a half years, I was promoted to Quality Assurance
Engineer, allowing me to have a broader influence regarding both development and testing of most
of the projects. Currently working for ZITEC as a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
You can check out my work experience by clicking Here
Work experience
ZITEC
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
2021 - Present
As a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer at ZITEC, my role is to ensure that the quality of the software is
high enough to meet the client's expectation together with creating learning frameworks for less experienced
colleagues to learn more about the software testing process, especially blockchain related topics.
My routine as a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer consists of writing and executing testcases, implement
automation frameworks within existing projects and maintain test-suites, provide business and technical feedback
to clients and developers whilst keeping up with latest Blockchain trends.
Most of my work has something to do with:
- Implement and maintain automation frameworks within new and exisitng project
- Ethereum based smart-contract testing and its implementation within various projects
- Writing and executing testcases
- Help less experienced colleagues resolve any issues that they may encounter
- Research best practices and tools for testing and development within the scope of the project
- Test planning
- Mobile manual testing
- Provide regular feedback regarding application(s) to stakeholders and developers
- Provide technical feedback to developers
Tools Used:
- Cypress.io
- Postman
- Ganache
- Truffle Suite
- Docker for both productiona and development environments
- Gitlab + Atlassian Suite (Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence) for tracking defects and documentation
- Buddy CI/CD and GitLab CI
- Android Studio
- Tons of other small tools/libraries to makes ends meet when situations arise
Work experience
Under Development Office
QA Specialist
2017 - 2021
Currently, my routine as a Quality Assurance Engineer allows me to act outside the comfort zone of a
regular
tester,
in order to facilitate the delivery of top-notch software by creating automation scripts and test
scenarios for both Frontend and Backend while also aiding UI/UX improvement and deployment
configurations in a CI/CD cycle.
Below you can find a list with most of the things that I do, or work with:
- Setup deployment pipelines for various environments and projects
- Setup development, testing, staging and production environments on various cloud providers
(mostly AWS and DigitalOcean )
- Git Feature Branch Workflow for development and testing
- Minor Frontend or Backend features/changes
- Research regarding best practices and tools for testing and development
- Manual Testing
- Test planning
- Test Case creation
- User Acceptance Testing
- Create documentation
Tools Used:
- Cypress.io and Protractor for Automation
- Postman and Newman for Backend testing
- jMeter for Load, Stress and Volume testing
- BurpSuite for Security/Penetration testing
- Docker for both productiona and development environments
- Atlassian Suite (Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence) for tracking defects and documentation
- Github to host some code
- Buddy CI/CD and CircleCi to deploy
- AWS (whole ecosystem) and Digital Ocean to host some of the projects
- Kibana and Grafana for server metrics
Electronic Arts Romania
Manual Game Tester
2014 - 2017
During my time spent at Electronic Arts Romania I have been assigned different tasks from being a PoC
(Person of Contact) where I had to create and maintain conversation with the producers, designers
and developers throughout the day, in order to obtain best results. Having to give feedback for
certain tasks or issue reports or to be under the wing of a Team Leader and create test plans for the
whole
project, to check submitted issues for validity and correct them where necessary was also a part of my
duty.
About me
I'll just keep it simple, I'm a tech enthusiast that loves FPS video games, highly interested in blockchain technology and development,
amateur FPV Drone pilot (5inch quad), Formula1 fan (Mclaren), custom circuit design amateur, casual
photographer and trying to travel as much as I can
Contact
Send me a message :)