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Quality Assurance Engineer / Release Manager
Bucharest, Romania
Only remote
Architect's Diploma (Master Level - EQF 7)About me
QA Engineer and Release Manager with 13+ years of experience across enterprise quality, test governance and release management. Currently working in a remote Senior QA role, with a continued professional focus on QA and release management, and EU-institution ICT delivery, including DIGIT-TM III
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Quality Assurance Engineer and Release Manager with 13+ years of experience across enterprise software and SaaS, including regulated financial services, banking, payments and telecom. My background combines QA governance, hands-on testing, test management and end-to-end release management across distributed Agile teams.
Quality assurance and release-management expertise
- Quality Assurance Engineering
- QA governance and quality control
- Test management and test strategy
- Risk-based testing
- Test planning and test campaigns
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Functional and integration testing
- API testing and data validation
- Defect management and triage
- Quality metrics and reporting
- Software release management
- Release planning and scheduling
- Release readiness and quality gates
- Go/no-go governance
- Change Management
- Risk and dependency management
- Rollback and contingency planning
- Post-release validation and hypercare
- Stakeholder and supplier coordination
- Agile and Scrum delivery
Tools and technical context
Test management and governance: Jira, Confluence, TestRail, Zephyr, Xray, ServiceNow, Power BI.
Testing and validation: Postman, Newman, Swagger / OpenAPI, SQL, MySQL, JMeter, BrowserStack, Applitools, Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, REST Assured.
CI/CD and quality signals: Git, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, SonarQube, production monitoring.
I use CI/CD and automated-test signals as inputs to quality and release decisions. My core focus is QA governance, test strategy, release readiness, risk management and evidence-based decision-making rather than deployment engineering.
Certifications and languages
- ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level
- Professional Scrum Master I
- Adobe Certified Expert - AEM Sites Business Practitioner
- Cambridge English C2
- Romanian - native
- English - C2
- French - B1-B2
Experience
Professional experience10+ years
Freelancer since2018
Languages
EnglishFluentFrenchBasic knowledgeRomanianNative speaker
Project history
QA planning and test strategy: Define risk-based QA plans, test strategies, coverage, readiness criteria and quality gates for software delivery.
Test campaign coordination: Coordinate functional, integration, regression, API and UAT testing across distributed teams, environments and dependencies.
Quality and defect governance: Manage defects, quality risks, acceptance evidence, test reporting and readiness inputs for evidence-based release decisions.
Release management: Support release schedules, dependencies, structured readiness and go/no-go reviews, release risks, contingency and rollback/recovery planning, post-release validation and continuous improvement.
Tools: Jira, Confluence, TestRail, ServiceNow, Postman, SQL, Git/GitHub, GitLab CI/CD, Cypress, Playwright and Microsoft 365.
Release Management: Coordinated the end-to-end release process across five distributed Agile squads, including release planning, schedules, dependencies, Change Management alignment, readiness reviews and go/no-go governance.
Enterprise Release Calendar: Conceived and led a release-calendar initiative covering 200+ squads, standardising dates, ownership, dependencies and deliverables and consolidating Jira and ServiceNow data through Power BI.
QA & Release Governance: Defined readiness criteria, quality gates and structured decision points using Jira, Confluence, TestRail and ServiceNow evidence.
Risk & Defect Governance: Managed cross-squad defects, release risks, escalation, recovery and stabilisation planning.
Post-Release Assurance: Used CI/CD, automated-test and production-monitoring signals for release validation, regression investigation, hypercare and stabilisation.
Results: Improved schedule adherence to 98%, reduced rollbacks by 50% and improved MTTR by 20%.
Tools: Jira, Confluence, TestRail, Xray, ServiceNow, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Cypress, SonarQube, Datadog, Postman and REST/SOAP APIs.
QA Strategy & Quality Assurance: Led QA planning, test strategy, quality assessment and multi-team test campaigns for UBS.com across four distributed Agile squads.
Test Management: Coordinated functional, integration, regression, API, exploratory, accessibility, localisation and UAT testing across environments, test data and third-party integrations.
QA Governance: Created Test Strategies, Test Plans and Test Summary Reports, managed quality risks and acceptance evidence, and supported release-readiness and go/no-go decisions.
Quality Improvement: Developed QA procedures, playbooks and Definition of Ready/Done standards adopted across 50+ engineers.
People Leadership: Managed a QA team, including workload allocation, coaching, mentoring and performance management.
Tools: Jira, Confluence, Zephyr, Postman, Newman, Swagger/OpenAPI, Jenkins, JMeter, BrowserStack, Applitools, Selenium, Cypress and Playwright.