
Ovidiu M
Test Automation Senior Manager | QA Leadership
Salary / Daily rate
Bucharest, Romania
Freelance
Remote only
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
ISTQB-certified Test Automation Senior Manager with 10+ years delivering enterprise-grade QA solutions for finance, insurance, and e-commerce sectors. Led team scaling to 100+ members, built 9+ automation frameworks, and upskilled 38 professionals. Expert in Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Karate with cloud-native testing on AWS/K8s—delivering zero-defect releases through comprehensive test strategy and technical leadership.
Work experience
Test Automation Senior Manager | ISTQB Certified
Deloitte Digital
Mar 2018 - Present
8 years 8 months
Bucharest, Romania
Clients: UK Insurance , UK E-Commerce, UK Finance Technologies: 1. UI Testing: Selenium, Serenity, Cypress, Playwright. 2. API Testing: Karate, Postman, Rest Assured, Rest Template. 3. Performance testing: JMeter, Gatling / Scala, K6. 4. Contract testing: Pact.io 5. Programming languages: Typescript, Java, Python, Robot Framework. 6. Operations: Kubernetes, AWS, Gradle, Maven, GCP, Gitlab, Github, Azure, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Jenkins, CircleCI. Project responsibilities: 1. Leading a team of 3-5 automation and performance colleagues. 2. Create automation and performance frameworks from scratch. 3. Implementing new tests for solving clients business needs. 4. Document work and present results to key business stakeholders. 5. Technical leadership and mentoring for QA colleagues across mixed teams. 6. Create proof of concepts for various piece of work not covered. 7. Create test management documents: Test Plan, Test strategy, Test concepts. 8. Creation and review of manual and automated test cases to ensure implementation of best practices - manual and coding ones. 9. Reporting - creating various reports for QA Activities - Test closure report, Defect report, Test automation report, performance report. 10. Optimized regression runs and execution time. Company responsibilities: 1. People leader for 7 persons, responsible for performance evaluation process. 2. Capability leader, in charge with creating Documentation, processes, training plans, certifications plan, proof of concepts. 3. Technical interviewer in touch with stakeholders. Achievements: 1. Delivered multiple releases without major issues to production. 2. Scaled up QA Capability rapidly to 100+ team members. 3. Created 4 Automation frameworks with 100+ automated tests, 5 proof of concepts frameworks from scratch, 2 performance frameworks running in a cloud world. 4. Delivered automation program of re-skilling 38 persons.
QA Automation Engineer
Deutsche Bank
Mar 2015 - Oct 2018
3 years 8 months
Client: Deutsche bank, Credit risk and Private Wealth departments Technologies: 1. Frontend ( UI ) Testing: Selenium, Protractor. 2. API Testing: JAX-RS framework, Postman, SOAP UI. 3. Performance testing: Load runner. 4. Test management: HP, ALM. 5. Programming languages: Typescript, Java. 6. Operations: Tomcat, Weblogic, Oracle 12g. Project responsibilities: 1. Create automation framework. 2. Implementing new manual and automated tests for solving clients business needs. 3. Document work and present results to key business stakeholders. 4. Create proof of concepts for various piece of work not covered. 5. Track test cases to test management tool - ALM. Achievements: 1. Created three automation frameworks with 100+ tests. 2. Delivered multiple releases without issues. 3. Mentored 3 junior colleagues.
Test Automation Developer
Arnia Software
May 2014 - May 2015
1 year 1 month
Bucharest, Romania
Clients: Delivery goods platform, Security - Saas platform, Learning platform Technologies: 1. Frontend ( UI ) Testing: Selenium. 2. API Testing: Rest client - Apache common. 3. Performance testing: Custom internal framework. 4. Test management: Zephyr. 5. Programming languages: Java, Groovy 6. Operations: GIT, Jenkins. Project responsibilities: 1. Create automation frameworks. 2. Implementing new manual and automated tests for solving clients business needs. 3. Document work and present results to key business stakeholders. 4. Create proof of concepts for various piece of work not covered. 5. Track test cases to test management tool - Zephyr. Achievements: 1. Created three automation frameworks with 100+ tests. 2. Delivered multiple releases without issues. 3. Mentored 2 junior colleagues. 4. Present QA Report to our stakeholders. 5. Created two proof of concepts for other stakeholders.
QA Engineer
Axway
Aug 2013 - May 2014
10 months
Bucharest, Romania
Client: Axway internal product Technologies: 1. Frontend ( UI ) Testing: Custom Internal framework. 2. API Testing: Rest client - Apache common. 3. Test management: Mercury QC. 4. Programming languages: Java. 5. Operations: GIT, Jenkins, TestNG, AIX, Sun, HPUX, Iitanium Project responsibilities: 1. Create new automation framework from scratch. 2. Implementing new manual and automated tests for solving clients business needs. 3. Document work and present results to key business stakeholders. 4. Create proof of concepts for various piece of work not covered. 5. Track test cases to test management tool - QC. 6. Mentor junior members. Achievements: 1. Created one automation frameworks with 20+ tests. 2. Delivered multiple releases without issues. 3. Mentored 2 junior colleagues. 4. Present QA Report to our stakeholders.
Operations Engineer
1&1 Internet AG
Oct 2010 - Aug 2013
2 years 11 months
Client: 1&1 internal project. Technologies: 1. Frontend ( UI ) Testing: Selenium. 2. API Testing: Rest Assured, Soap UI. 3. Test management: Jira, ALM. 4. Programming languages: Java, Bash scripting, PL SQL. 5. Operations: Git, Tomcat, JBoss, Apache, Debian, Nagios, JConsole, Visual VM, MRTG, Jenkins, Hudson. Project responsibilities: 1. Create new automation framework from scratch. 2. Implementing new manual and automated tests for solving clients business needs. 3. Document work and present results to key business stakeholders. 4. Create new stored procedures in Sybase. 5. Execute L2 tickets and deploys. 6. Create new bash scripts to deploy new services in JBoss / Tomcat. Achievements: 1. Created one automation frameworks with 20+ tests. 2. Delivered multiple releases without issues. 3. Mentored 2 junior colleagues. 4. Present QA Report to our stakeholders.
Education
University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest
Master's degree
2010 - 2012
3 years
University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest
Bachelor's degree, Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services
2006 - 2010
5 years
Licenses & certifications
ISTQB® Foundation Level
Issued: Nov 2025