
Chirila Sorin
QA Engineer | API Testing, AWS
Salary / Daily rate
Iași, Romania
Freelance
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
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.
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
Dezvoltator web
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