Dejan PAVLOVIC
Director, Quality Engineering | QA Manager
Salaire / Taux journalier
Paris, France
Mobilité : Nice, Montpellier
Freelance, ouvert au CDI
Peut venir sur site
Expertises
Langues
À propos
Introduction
Director of Quality Engineering with 20+ years in the Fintech industry, leading global quality transformation programs across On-Prem, Platform, and SaaS solutions. Proven expertise in building and managing multi-site teams, defining and executing strategic quality roadmaps, and implementing large-scale automation and CI/CD frameworks. Passionate about continuous improvement, innovation, and driving customer satisfaction by transforming quality into a true business accelerator.
Expérience de travail
Director, Quality Engineering
Finastra
juil. 2018 - Présent
8 ans 4 mois
Paris, France
• Managed of up to 30 SDET in a distributed and multi-cultural environment (Canada, India, Israel, USA) • Responsible of Finastra overall software quality and test automation strategy: governance, standards, best practices, process, tools, roles & responsibilities for 10 prioritized products • Led DevOps transformation programs of engineering teams with focus on continuous quality • Collaborative and iterative approach with other stakeholders such as dev leaders, architects or product managers to drive continuous improvements in software development lifecycles • Product Owner for Test Platform services on Fusion Operate (FO: a Finastra DevOps platform and Operating Model to drive software delivery and operational excellence) • Delivered various services for microservices development teams: multi-stack curated test automation framework (BDD), Mock as a Service, Resiliency testing service… • Defined and enforced of built-in Quality Gates for Functional, Security and Performance across the whole CI/CD pipelines form Dev (code commit) to production • Standardized quality metrics (leading and lagging metrics) and created executive leadership dashboard • One-off Quality First programs to improve test efficiency and test effectiveness for Payment and Retail Banking products • Led cross-functional workshops with developers, testers, product managers and learning paths with hands-on training materials • Implemented strategic initiatives for future development projects with focus on test efficiency and effectiveness improvements: LaunchDarkly, Launchable…
Misys
janv. 2007 - juil. 2018
11 ans 7 mois
Paris, France
Head of Performance CoE
janv. 2016 - juil. 2018
2 ans 7 mois
Paris, France
• Managed 10 onshore and offshore performance SMEs (India, France, Poland, Romania) • Defined Performance Engineering’s standards, best practices and KPIs • Initiated Agile methodologies for continuous performance testing (NFR, CI/CD integration…) • Managed Premium customer support
Senior QA Manager
janv. 2007 - déc. 2015
9 ans
• Created/Recruited/Coached/Mentored a distributed onshore and offshore QA team including leaders and software engineers (France and Poland) – 25+ people • ManagedQA test campaigns for minor and major releases on multi-platform environments for Front to Back suite (Kondor+, KSP, KGR, K+TP) • Defined overall test strategy for financial appmications (scope, methodology, process, tools, go/no-go criteria…) • Acted as single point of contact for other product stakeholders: Executive leadership team, Dev leaders, Architects, Product Managers… • Led customer upgrade projects - delivery of UAT ready version for customers based on a tailored methodology • Setup of automated test framework for QA teams (RobotFramework) • Initiated Monitoring capabilities for both environments & products (Zabbix) • Defined and setup individual goals and objectives and led bi-annual performance reviews
Thomson Reuters
janv. 2003 - déc. 2006
4 ans
Paris, France
QA Engineer
janv. 2005 - déc. 2006
2 ans
Paris, France
• Defined/Developed/Executed/Analyzed results of technical tests for front office application • Built an automated test framework shared between development and QA teams to ensure continuous quality.
Technical Consultant
janv. 2003 - déc. 2004
2 ans
• Developed system interfaces and financial reports
Technical Consultant
SIGET INNOVATION
févr. 2002 - janv. 2003
1 an
Paris, France
• Provided technical support to customers on real-time financial applications
Technical Consultant
NET2S
janv. 2000 - janv. 2002
2 ans 1 mois
Paris, France
• Developed and supported interfaces for financial applications
Technical Consultant
ESCADRE
mars 1998 - déc. 1999
1 an 10 mois
Paris, France
• Developed and supported Lotus Notes applications
Formation
Université Paris 13
Master's Degree in Engineering
1995 - 1998
2 ans 11 mois
IUT de Villetaneuse
Associate's Degree
1993 - 1995
1 an 11 mois
Lycée Paul Eluard
High School Diploma
1990 - 1993
2 ans 11 mois
Licences et certifications
SAFe Agilist
Délivré le : sept. 2025
PRINCE2 Foundation
Délivré le : août 2025
ISTQB Foundation & Advanced - TEST MANAGER
Délivré le : janv. 2014
Portfolio
Structuration et industrialisation de l’activité QA à l’échelle internationale
Déploiement d’une stratégie d’automatisation dans une équipe orientée tests manuels
