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Senior QA Automation Engineer, Anthropic Architect Certified

București, Romania
Only remote
București, Romania
Only remote

Profile attachments

CRISTIAN VLĂESCU - CV.pdf

Test AutomationSoftware QualityTestcompleteJenkins
agile dev, AWS, Adb, Ansible, Hbase, Jmeter, Kafka, Appium, automated tests, automated testing, automation testing, Backend, Bash, Blockchain, bug reports, C++, CSS, Celery, cloud, CI/CD, custom software, data structures, databases, Docker, Git, Golang, Google cloud, HTML, hardware components, Testing hardware, Computer Science, Jira, Java, Jest, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Mixed Reality, mongodb, MySQL, neo4j, network layer, Network protocols, Oracle PL/SQL, PHP, performance testing, postgresql, Python, regression tests, Rest APIs, REST API, SQL, sqlite, scripting, Selenium, shell scripting, software application, Software Development, development cycle, software modules, software quality, SVN , Automation Engineer, TCL, technical debt, Terraform, TestLink, TestComplete, TestRail, Visual C++, Mobile Networks

Experience

Professional experience10+ years
Freelancer since2018

Languages

GermanGoodEnglishGoodRomanianGood

Project history

Software Development Engineer in Test (Technical Lead)

VIAVI Solutions
VIAVI Solutions | Monitoring networks quality

As big player in fiber-optic networks, the client was struggling with thousands of hours
wasted on support due to an error-prone platform used for monitoring networks quality.

Tasks:
Covered full testing cycle: analyzed existing platform, created test plan, manual testing,
* developed automated tests, monitored CI/CD pipelines, created bug reports
Collaborated with product architect and development leads to improve testing architecture
* Coordinated a second team of 6 sub-contractors to increase automated testing coverage
*
Achievements:
Number of issues raised by end clients decreased with 30%
* The same-sized team, gradually increased support from 2 to 11 clients
*

Skills: Architecture, Design, Team Lead, Golang, Python, Java, Behave Framework, Git, Docker,
Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, Private clouds.

Senior QA Automation Engineer

Mixed Reality | Crypto-Fiat Exchange
Mixed Reality | Crypto-Fiat Exchange
A successful crypto mining company started to develop its own crypto-fiat exchange and was
losing a great deal of time, due to an overwhelming number of bugs

Tasks:
Strong collaboration with developers to reduce technical debt and to shorten the
* development cycle
Manual testing, exploratory, hazard
* Designed architecture for automated testing
* Added automated tests for functional, security and deployment
*
Achievements:
Reduced feedback time per git push from 12 minutes to 40 seconds, in 60% of pushes
* The team increased with 10% the number of storypoints per sprint
Skills: Blockchain, Git, Docker, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Hbase, Kafka, Golang.*

Senior QA Automation Engineer

Softvision (Cognizant); Farmers Platform
Softvision (Cognizant) | Farmers Platform

A startup building a community of farmers, was struggling with the high cost of maintaining
and growing their platform, due to the painfully slow testing process for each software version.

Tasks:
Updated existing automated tests battery and added more automated tests, to increase
* coverage
Proposed alternatives to speed up the execution of automated tests
* Migrated the existing automated tests to the new solution
*
Achievements:
Validated multiple proof of concepts and agreed one solution with the customer
* Decreased testing time from 5 days to only 1 day per software version
*
Skills: Git, Jira, TestLink,TestRail, Jmeter, Bash, Python, RobotFramework, Jest, Appium, Mobile testing.

Senior QA Automation Engineer

Dell Services
Dell Services | Optimize changes in telecom infrastructure

The client had a software application which helped to reduce the human intervention in switching
end-clients from old copper networks to new fiber-optic network. The software had big delivery
cycles due to the exhaustively slow testing process of each software version.

Manual testing, Go/NoGo decicions for new builds
* Created a plan to automate the most important scenarios
* Implemented the smoke tests suite
* Helped the other QAs to improve their automation skills
*
Shortened time for the first testing feedback from 4 hours to 30 minutes
* Improve testing time per build from 2 days to 4 hours
* Number of bugs found by the app users dropped 3 times
Skills: Jira, SVN, Python, Selenium.*

Senior Python Engineer

University of Chicago
University of Chicago | Providing projects continuity for scientists

The university, while collaborating with scientists, was struggling to handle projects continuity
when reactivating on-hold projects, due to multiple software updates required by each project
dependencies during the on-hold period.

Implemented a REST API service to organize the projects
* Covered areas of development requiring multiple languages and data structures
*
Each new version impressed the jury and project obtained 3 rounds of funding
* The project had a great start and the dev team increased from 2 to 4 members
Skills: Git, Python, Celery, Docker, AWS cloud, multiple databases(sqlite, postgresql, mongodb,*

neo4j).

Senior Python Engineer

Stacklighting | Testing light bulbs
A startup building smart light bulbs was struggling with keeping track of products state due to a
rock-heavy manual testing process for a business across multiple continents.

Designed the testing architecture for the whole engineering process
* Developed a layer of test steps to help engineers create their own tests
* Centralized test results in cloud
* Created visualizations to track defects and to see metrics
*
Obtained full awareness about bulbs testing and retesting after fixing the hardware
* issues
Starting from high level metrics per bulb batches, engineers could see the testing history
* per bulb, including location, equipment used for testing, and number of retesting after
fixing hardware defects

Skills: Git, Python, Visual C++, Google cloud.

Senior QA Automation Engineer

Intel
Intel | Enabling Android on new devices

As big chipsets manufacturer, the client was having issues with selling hardware components
without offering a basic software to use it, and accommodating Android on the new hardware as
a painfully slow process

Manual testing and basic automation testing as the QA from an agile dev team
* Bridged between development and extended automation team
*
Released 4 major versions on time
* The organizational model from our dev team was replicated to 3 other teams
*

Skills: Git, Adb, Python, Jira.

Automation Engineer (Technical Lead)

ITC Networks (Luxoft)
ITC Networks (Luxoft) | Testing hardware for landline communications
Building hardware for phone communications, the client was dealing with low customer
satisfaction due to multiple issues in interconnecting equipments, consequently struggling with
business expansion.
Designed the testing architecture
* Developed automated tests
* Developed additional modules to reduce execution time for regression tests
* Coordinated a team of 30 developers
*
On the same hardware system, we evolved from running sequential tests to running 8
* tests in parallel
Business had a constant revenue increase of 15-25% per year
Skills: SVN, TestComplete, * TCL/expect, PHP, HTML, CSS, L2/L3 network layer

Automation Engineer

UTI Systems
UTI Systems | Testing ERP Software

Active in the software development industry, the client was struggling with obtaining it's client
approval for custom software, due to a high number of defects found in the acceptance phase.

Implemented quality procedures and constantly improved internal testing
* Developed scripts to automate the release procedures
* Developed automated tests to cover most-used scenarios
*
Reduced time for acceptance phases from 6 weeks to 1 week per release
* In 3 years, business increased revenue by 3x
Skills: CVS, shell scripting, Rational Visual Test.*

C++ Engineer

UTI Systems
UTI Systems | Designing complex algorithms
Providing software development services, the client was experiencing increasing delays in
delivering new software modules, due to lacking know-how required to solve complex
mathematical problems.

Designed multi-stage algorithms
* Implemented the software
* Made sure that all releases were on time

Certificates

Claude Certified Architect -Foundations

Anthropic

2026

ISTQB

ISTQB Foundation Level

2010


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