Chirila Sorin

QA Engineer | API Testing, AWS

Salary / Daily rate

Iași, Romania

Freelance

Can come onsite

Skills

PostmanTest DesignTesting & QAAWSGraphQLRESTful APIs

Languages

English

About me

Intro

QA Engineer with 6+ years specializing in API testing, AWS cloud services, and performance validation. Expert in GraphQL/REST API testing, automated testing with Cypress, and AWS stack including DynamoDB, S3, CloudWatch. Proven track record delivering comprehensive testing solutions for enterprise clients across healthcare and media industries.

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Work experience

QA Engineer

Ateliere Creative Technologies

May 2022 - Present

4 years 6 months

Bucharest, Romania · Remote

Key Responsibilities: Designing, writing, and maintaining clear and comprehensive test cases and test plans based on product requirements, specifications, and design documents. Performing a wide range of testing types, including functional, non-functional, black box, exploratory, regression, smoke, and performance testing. Also using GitHub Actions to run the automated testes from Cypress and from test-hub. Conducting API testing (GraphQL) and validating backend behaviour, data integrity, and functionality using the AWS stack, including DynamoDB, S3, CloudWatch, SQS. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, including developers, product owners, and manual/automation QA engineers to ensure alignment and coverage. Reviewing and approving pull requests, ensuring that automated and manual test scenarios align with implemented changes. Preparing and maintaining the test environment, and keeping clear documentation for all phases of the testing lifecycle. Key Projects and Initiatives: Nagra Watermarking Initiative – QA validation of security measures integrated into our media processing pipeline. Disaster Recovery Solution – Tested failover mechanisms and validated system reliability under failure scenarios. Descriptive Metadata Indexing – Focused on ElasticSearch and validating metadata visibility and search accuracy across media assets. Azure SSO Integration – Tested new SSO authentication via Azure, layered over existing Okta integration. File Service – End-to-end testing for media file handling services within the platform. CSV Import Improvements – Enhanced and validated CSV import features for titles and media items. **Object Metadata Initiative**– Deep testing of metadata logic, structure, and performance across large-scale object datasets. API Performance Suite – Developed a dedicated Postman suite to assess and monitor response times and performance metrics for key APIs and when performing Load Testing.

QA Engineer

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Jun 2021 - May 2022

1 year

Quality Assurance Engineer

Affirma

Jun 2020 - Jul 2021

1 year 2 months

Iași, Romania

- Using Azure Dev Ops/Jira for reporting encountered issues, assign and monitor them · Run tests suites, regression/confirmation testing · Attend daily QA sync meetings with QA Lead and developers when required · Attend weekly project meetings with PM and team for individual projects · Create documentation, reports that reflect the results of QA activities and tested products · Ability to convert requirements and specifications into test cases and define acceptance criteria/expected result for a software product · Provide estimates for test planning, test case creation and test execution - Testing Microsoft based apps( like Sharepoint)

Test Engineer

Signant Health

Jan 2018 - Jul 2020

2 years 7 months

Iasi Metropolitan Area

Areas of expertise - Electronic Clinical Outcome Assessment, Applications (Web, Android, Windows). CRF Health provides patient-centric electronic Clinical Outcome Assessment solutions for clinical trials from Phase I to Phase IV and beyond. Working as Verification Specialist along with Development team and Project Management lead to ensure that client requirements, quality protocols and integrity of our platform is delivered at highest standards. Details: -Writing documentation and test cases for assigned modules. -Managing and tracking bugs/anomalies and verifying bug fixes using Bugzilla. -Involved in entire Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC): Requirement Analysis, Test Planning, Test Case Development, Test Environment Setup, Test Execution, Bug Tracking and Fixing, Regression Testing. -Testing applications built for Web, Android & Tablet -Providing feedback to improve the software development and quality control processes; -Supporting internal and external teams for product maintenance activities; -Identifying gaps between specifications and actual implementation of the delivered application or any of its component, analysing them, and supporting software designers in corrective actions. -Maintains a high quality service and on time delivery of project outputs for the client using Workfront -Having a big impact to the teaching process of new joiners

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ASM Technologies

Mar 2016 - Oct 2016

8 months


Education

Facultatea de Automatica si Calculatoare Iasi

Master's degree

2016 - 2018

2 years 1 month

Facultatea de automatica si calculatoare iasi

Ingineria sistemelor

2012 - 2016

4 years 1 month

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