Ionuț Scarlat

Self-employed

Salary / Daily rate

Nice, France

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Can come onsite

Skills

AITesting & QAQA EngineerJavascriptJavaPython

Languages

Romanian (Native)English (Fluent)French

About me

Intro

Hi, I’m Ionuț. Senior QA Engineer with 12+ years of hands-on experience in the QA domain.I specialize in backend automation, API testing, and building scalable test strategies that align with real business goals. From planning and test design to full-on implementation, I bring structure, speed, and stability to the development lifecycle. 💼 What I Do Best Backend Automation (REST/SOAP APIs) Designing test frameworks & pipelines QA strategy & continuous integration AI-assisted test automation

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Work experience

niceIT Network ⚡️Freelance

Feb 2022 - Present

4 years 9 months

Self-employed

Feb 2022 - Present

4 years 9 months

I have built and maintained automated testing frameworks, designed scalable QA strategies, and collaborated closely with development, product, and DevOps teams to deliver reliable, high-quality software. My expertise includes backend automation, API testing, CI/CD integration, and modern testing tools such as Playwright, ReadyAPI, and Postman.

QA Automation Engineer

Feb 2022 - Present

4 years 9 months

QA Automation Engineer

Vulog

Nov 2019 - Jan 2022

2 years 3 months

Nice, France

- Provide innovative solutions to scale up and improve our testing workflow; - Participation in the daily stand up meetings; - Participation in the sprint planning and sprint review; - Create and maintain backend automated end-to-end tests; - Review test results and create associated bug tickets or update tests; - Make and keep up to date test documentation; - Maintain continuous integration on Jenkins; Web services technologies used: ReadyAPI (Groovy language), SoapUI, Postman; Source control tools used: Git; Continuous integration: Jenkins, Maven; Tools used: JIRA, Confluence, GitBash, GitDesktop;

Software QA Engineer

NetRom

Sep 2014 - Oct 2019

5 years 2 months

Craiova, Romania

- Planning and executing all aspects of testing phase, monitoring and maintaining compliance with tight time requirements and identify and mitigate risks or provide contingency solutions; - Participating in all phases of software test and release cycle: design and development of test projects and test cases, functional testing, regression testing, system testing, usability testing, final acceptance dry-run testing and final acceptance testing; - Design test cases and develop automated test cases for backend requests (SoapUI, Postman); - Working closely with the development team and the clients in order to understand the changing requirements and develop or modify testing strategy; - Provide information to developers in order to fix defects; - Responsible for reporting and communicating on test activities to the line organisation, software developers and functional analysts; - Testing types used: Smoke testing, Functional testing, Usability testing Regression testing; - Experience on VoIP platforms, Telephony products;

Internship QA Department

NetRom

Jul 2014 - Jul 2014

1 month

Craiova, Romania


Education

University of Craiova

Master's degree, Advanced Techniques for Information Processing

2016 - 2018

3 years

Master's degree, Advanced Techniques for Information Processing

University of Craiova

Bachelor's degree, Exact Sciences Faculty, Informatics Teaching Class

2012 - 2015

4 years

Bachelor's degree, Exact Sciences Faculty, Informatics Teaching Class

"Nicolae Titulescu" National College

Junior Programmer Certificate, Mathematics – Informatics Teaching Class

2008 - 2012

5 years

Junior Programmer Certificate, Mathematics – Informatics Teaching Class


Licenses & certifications

Multimodal Programming Interfaces

Issued: Feb 2026

Certified by LinkedIn

Learning Groovy

Issued: Apr 2022

Certified by LinkedIn

Foundations of User Experience (UX) Design

Issued: Apr 2021

Certified by Google

Leadership: Practical Skills

Issued: Nov 2020

Certified by LinkedIn

Mastering Django Part 1 - AJAX, Class Based Views, Forms

Issued: Jun 2020

Certified by Udemy

Django 2.2 & Python | The Ultimate Web Development Bootcamp

Issued: Jan 2020

Certified by Udemy

Using Python for Automation

Issued: Dec 2019

Certified by LinkedIn

Python Automation and Testing

Issued: Dec 2019

Certified by LinkedIn

Test Automation Foundations

Issued: Nov 2019

Certified by LinkedIn

Python Quick Start

Issued: Nov 2019

Certified by LinkedIn

Python Essential Training

Issued: Nov 2019

Certified by LinkedIn

ISTQB ® Certified Tester, Foundation Level

Issued: Jul 2016

Certified by ISTQB® - International Software Testing Qualifications Board

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