• Growing the Insurance business vertical by ensuring that Endava successfully delivers strong, innovative solutions tailored to customer needs• Maintaining trustful client relationships and permanent alignment between client expectations and deliverables• Looking after the well-being and motivation of team• Overseeing the quality of work, financial and resource planning and forecasting, risk and issue management, contracts management, and long-term health of the client partnership

Senior Project Manager - Head of Quality Assurance Unit EPAM RomaniaAs Senior Project Manager/Delivery Manager• responsible for the delivery of several teams as a delivery supervisor (EPAM Scrum teams & staff augmentation teams)• ensuring programme governance, directly interacting with client management, actively brining in new business demand, SOW generation and signoff, team proposal & staffing,• shielding the teams from the problematic stakeholders (and on the other hand… Show more Senior Project Manager - Head of Quality Assurance Unit EPAM RomaniaAs Senior Project Manager/Delivery Manager• responsible for the delivery of several teams as a delivery supervisor (EPAM Scrum teams & staff augmentation teams)• ensuring programme governance, directly interacting with client management, actively brining in new business demand, SOW generation and signoff, team proposal & staffing,• shielding the teams from the problematic stakeholders (and on the other hand, increasing the sense of ownership within the team)• setting up clear critical paths, executing plans flawlessly by utilizing all possible company resources to meet the goalsAs Head of Quality Assurance Unit EPAM Romania• growing the QA unit with minimum attrition and maximum efficiency on the bench management side: achieving both excellent flexibility in supplying new demand, and minimize bench time to reduce costs• managing attrition, rotations, escalations, compensation, and promotions with very good results• conducting all final interviews and offer submissions to enforce quality assurance on new resources and coach other interviewers Show less

Managing the overall delivery of over 40 software engineers, acting as a technical project manager, line manager, and providing guidance and support for team leads:• An Application Management Service team, totaling ~25 various roles (BA, DevOps, DBA, Developers and Testers)• A new Product Development team, totaling ~10 various roles (BA, Developers and Testers)• A test team of 5 people working on an IFRS17 transformation project• An automation team of 6 people• Line… Show more Managing the overall delivery of over 40 software engineers, acting as a technical project manager, line manager, and providing guidance and support for team leads:• An Application Management Service team, totaling ~25 various roles (BA, DevOps, DBA, Developers and Testers)• A new Product Development team, totaling ~10 various roles (BA, Developers and Testers)• A test team of 5 people working on an IFRS17 transformation project• An automation team of 6 people• Line Management, Career Coaching and Compensation Management for most of the team members. Show less

• Managing the overall Testing delivery for an Insurance project of over 40 software engineers• Created and/or coordinated Test Strategies, Automation Approaches, Performance testing, Test Status and Test Completion Reporting• Coordinated and held trainings for the Endava testing discipline (Computer Programming for Testers, Java for Testers)Technology Stack: C#, Selenium WebDriver, SpeckFlow, Docker, Teamcity, Git, Oracle, Jira, Kubernetes, Octopus Deploy, MS Azure

• Tasks/Experience:a. Coordinate several testing teamsb. Define test strategies and implement automation and performance testsc. Maintain and support the automation frameworkd. Implement consumer driven contract testse. Career coach for ~10 people across several teamsTechnology Stack: Java/IntelliJ, Selenium WebDriver, JBehave, Maven, Docker, Jenkins, Ubuntu, Git, Oracle, Jira, Grinder, JMeter, F5, Rest API

• Also acted as Scrum Master.• HP Operations Orchestration Content Developer, working on a leading IT process automation solution designed to increase automation adoption in a traditional data center and hybrid cloud environment:• develop Java based Operations Orchestration operations and flows• deliver demos and trainings to Technical Support and Presales• set up and maintain multiple Integration EnvironmentsTechnology Stack: HP Operations Orchestration, Java/Eclipse… Show more • Also acted as Scrum Master.• HP Operations Orchestration Content Developer, working on a leading IT process automation solution designed to increase automation adoption in a traditional data center and hybrid cloud environment:• develop Java based Operations Orchestration operations and flows• deliver demos and trainings to Technical Support and Presales• set up and maintain multiple Integration EnvironmentsTechnology Stack: HP Operations Orchestration, Java/Eclipse, Maven, Hudson, TortoiseSVN, VMware, Rest API Show less

• oversee the software development process, from functional specifications to definition of done• maintain the manual and automated test suite (UFT+ALM based tests)• assist Presales and Technical Support• take part in the people recruitment processTechnology Stack: HP UCMDB, HP Quality Center/ALM, UFT, Apache Tomcat on Linux and Windows, Postman, Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, JenkinsAchieved the Application Security for QA certification provided by AppSec-Labs.

• deliver product release notes based on ALM data• deliver various guides based on functional specifications• update product specific UI integrated documentation• work with Technical Support and Presales to improve the documentation customer experienceTechnology Stack: Madcap Flare, HP Operations Orchestration, Java, Maven, Hudson, TortoiseSVN