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Wellington, New Zealand

• Frontend and backend development of web-based applications using .NET technology stack• Integration with Azure Cloud resources• Code analysis, unit testing and code coverage monitoring• Code reviews• Database maintenance and extension• Setup and maintenance of CI/CD (to both cloud and on prem)• Monitoring tools and alerts management (e.g. Azure Insights)• Setup of automatic resources deployment (ARM templates)• Participation in Scrum team ceremonies• Review of initial requirements, analysis and estimation• Documentation and release notes creation• Support of applications transitioned into maintenance phase

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

• Planning, design and development of the core of automated testing framework• Regular maintenance and extension of auto test library• Auto tests scope and coverage analysis• Integration of auto tests in CI/CD pipeline• Support and guidance of the team auto tests creation

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Test automation engineer• Took over and extended test automation framework • Auto tests scope and coverage analysis• Coaching a junior test automation engineerTest Manager• Quality Risk / Project Risk analysis • Functional and Non-functional test team management • Project reporting • Defect management

Chisinau Municipality, Moldova

• Preliminary analysis of project plans, business, functional and non-functional requirements from Quality Assurance perspective• Support sales department during initial negotiation phase of the project• On-site visits to client to collect project related information that would be used as a basis for future Test Strategy and Approach definition, as well as to outline test services contract stipulations and deliverables• Contributing to and documenting initial technical solution proposal, including schedules and budget estimates• Assistance in setting up software development workflows, quality assurance processes and priorities• Detailed Quality Risk and Project Risks Analysis with the goal of outlining test priorities and mitigation actions• Definition of Test Strategy, detailed Test Plans and leading reviews of the documents with project managers and team members• Adapting international test standards practices applicable to a project or requested by Project Management and including them in a Test Strategy (IEEE 829 “Standard for Software and System Test Documentation”, etc.) • Elaborating detailed test tasks, resource requirements: hardware environment needs, software needs, test tools needs as well as human resources needs and qualification required• Establishing and tracking metrics to measure test progress and quality of the software under test• Managing test analysis and design of tests• Managing and controlling test execution progress and status reporting• Managing test automation and further test execution using automated test scenarios• Reporting in terms of compliance with internal and external industry quality standards, functional and non-functional requirements• Supporting and coaching test team members

Chisinau Municipality, Moldova

Leading and managing QA activities for Deutsche Bank project with the sole focus on trade/product events processing with further real-time data transformation and replication to an independent database. The list of responsibilities are (but not limited to):• Full system analysis and initial information processing and gathering• Creation of Test Strategy/Test Approach • Risk Analysis (both quality and management risks)• Effort and budget calculations• Coverage analysis: for functional and performance testing• Definition of automation testing solutions with test automation engineers• Definition of performance testing solutions with performance testing engineers• Review of both functional and technical documentation provided by development side• Adapting existing QA documentation to internal Deutsche Bank test standards/documentation format• Team management and tasks assignment• Test creation and execution preparation activities (environment booking, etc)• Regular collaboration with 3rd party development team and client PM• Regular test activities progress tracking and mitigation of problems (re-planning, raising alerts to developers on test blockers, re-alignment of testing)• Daily reporting and final test phase reporting

Chisinau Municipality, Moldova

Leading QA activities for JustGiving (www.justgiving.com) British charity organization with sole focus on functional testing of REST-based backend accounting system.Primary responsibilities:• Full analysis of internal technical workflow including business logic and architecture analysis (UML) of the system• Regular on-site business trips to the client • Close collaboration with business persons on client site• Closed regular collaboration with development management and architect on client side• Replacement of legacy manual testing with automated tests, introducing client-server based test-approach• Managing development of dedicated .NET-based Test-Framework • Analysis and of existing test coverage and introduction of extensions for areas with low confidence•Analysis of newly-developed functionality and definition of test coverage o path-coverage analysis o internal logic flow-charts creation o exclusion of exhaustive scenarios o definition of priorities basing on business requirements o application of risk-based approach o known issues analysis o negative scenarios definition• Test cases definition and control of detailed implementation by the team• Preparation of test-environment for test execution• Execution of automated scenarios and analysis of generated test-reports• Issues analysis and logging for further investigation on development site• Progress monitoring and team activities management (tasks definition, estimations, priorities)• Regular detailed progress reporting to the client

Responsibilities:• Running interviews for open positions of QA Engineers• Arranging and providing "QA and Testing" training on specialized free courses from "Allied Testing" at Technical University of Moldova, Chisinau, Moldova (www.utm.md) and at Moldova State University (www.usm.md)• Arranging and providing trainings for the newcomers. • Arranging and providing internal trainings of all Allied Testing (Moldova office) employees (350 employees)Main internal training areas:- “Quality Assurance”: project team organization, project life cycle models (Waterfall, V-model, Spiral), test levels (Unit/Integration/System/User Acceptance testing, test approaches, mythologies, - “Communication with client”: communication through e-mails, IM messenger for business purposes, business conference calls etiquette/rules- “QA Team leader training”: Reporting (Daily, Weekly, Monthly), Estimation definition approaches, Master/level QA test plan with accordance with IEEE829 standard, Test Case with accordance with IEEE829 standard, Task distribution, Time management, Advertising company to a potential client, Client charging (fixed bid/flexible payment), “Kick-off” activities / Managing transition of the project / transition plan, Financial / Budget reports, Activities delegation/ Coaching / People management- “Security training”: Introduction of company internal Personnel, Environment and Information security rules- “Financial training”: Types of exchanges (Stock, Forex…), securities (bond, futures, forwards, options, swaps, warrant), basic options strategies, trading (orders, parameters, margin trading), Market Data (levels of data, fields)- “Agile training”: Scrum team organization, Agile manifesto, roles in Scrum team, Sprint phases, Scrum workflow (Sprint planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Review, Retrospective), QA activities in each phase of Scrum (detailed review), bug lifecycle, life cycle of an issue from Business Initiative to Story/Tasks, Jira in Scrum.

Leading QA activities for Thomson Reuters (www.thomsonreuters.com) financial marketing data provision / analysis of marketing data products:• “Reuters Link for Microsoft Office” (Reuters Knowledge, Reuters Wealth Manager) - 3 QA team members• “Thomson Reuters Eikon Excel” - 12 QA team membersResponsibilities:• Development and optimization of the QA plans (Mercury Quality Center), matching them with the delivery plans of the product as well as with client’s expectations on the quality• Specifications and change requests analysis, providing QA recommendations to development and project management• Close collaboration with the development team on QA matters (sanity checks, bugs review meetings)• Work-load scheduling (test effort estimation, discussion the work-load with the client, etc)• Test coverage definition basing on the priority areas, effort available and time frames • Reporting test coverage, results and other QA-related information to the project managers• End-to-end defect tracking (CollabNet, Mercury Quality Center, MS SharePoint)• QA tasks assignment, track of the execution (manual and automation tests)• Optimization of the working process inside the team• Team members training on the test methods, approaches and product functionalities• Review and optimization of the test scenarios targeting to provide maximum quality and coverage (scripting of newly implemented functionality/updating existing test-scripts)• Unexpected problems/delays handling, forecasting any functional or environmental restrictions and adjusting the QA activities in accordance with them• Close control of the quality of the job done and regular detailed reporting to the client (conference calls, regular reports), providing needed transparency and visibility• Team motivation activities (team-buildings, rewards assignment)

Responsibilities:• Functional testing of web-in-desktop applications as well as complex client-server financial software • Execution of functional test scripts• Logging defects• Defect fix validation• Creating test scenarios and use cases on given specifications• Exploratory/error guessing testing• Configuring and running automated test tools (QTP, Silk Performer etc.) created by automation QA engineers• Processing data collected by automation tools and building comprehensive QA reports

Participation in developing an educational software for African countries, UNESCO. Office located in Romania, Brasov.Responisbilities:• documentation processing• main design of interface• partial coding and designing using Flash Action Script