Stefan Todirica

Senior QA Automation Engineer

Salary / Daily rate

Bucharest, Romania

Freelance

Skills

JavascriptJavaTesting & QASeleniumGitHubHTMLNextRackspaceGitJenkinsRESTful APIsMavenPlaywrightTest DesignFullstack DevelopmentReactAngularNodeCSSExpressMariaDBOracle DatabaseMongoDBSQL databasesGoogle Cloud PlatformMySQLSQL QueriesFirebaseDockerBitbucketPostmanXcodeElasticsearchLinux

Languages

EnglishFrench

About me

Intro

Senior QA Automation Engineer with 12+ years of expertise in test automation and full-stack development. Currently at DPD UK, I've developed comprehensive test frameworks using Java, Node.js, and Selenium while transitioning into software development with GCP, Docker, and MongoDB. I deliver robust automation solutions and maintain critical platforms, ensuring quality across mobile, web, and backend systems.

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Work experience

DPD UK Ltd

Feb 2016 - Present

10 years 9 months

Software Developer

Mar 2020 - Present

6 years 8 months

- maintain various platforms - fix existing bugs and implement new changes java, javascript, gcp, sql, mongo, docker

Senior QA Automation Engineer

Feb 2016 - Mar 2020

4 years 2 months

Bucharest, Romania

• Report defects and follow up the lifecycle • Write and maintain tests (back-end and front-end) • Develop front-end test framework for mobile and web • Write tests using node js and java (using git) • Work with selenium and appium for front-end tests • worked with multiple databases: mySQL, Oracle, Mongo , gcp suite and ldap • worked with mac os, Linux and windows

CW Android QA Engineer

Intel Corporation

Nov 2013 - Mar 2016

2 years 5 months

Bucharest, Romania

• Automatic and manual testing • Reporting defects and follow up the lifecycle • Performing documents review with the team in order to ensure understanding of the requirements • Performing vulnerability testing, security testing, stress testing • Writing automated tests for different platforms (Android, linux) using Java, python and bash (using GIT) and maintaining them • Automating tasks with Selenium webdriver • Agile environment • Working with linux and windows

Bitdefender

Feb 2008 - Dec 2013

5 years 11 months

QA Engineer

Sep 2012 - Dec 2013

1 year 4 months

• Automatic and manual testing • Reporting defects and follow up the lifecycle • Creating test plans, use cases, test cases, documents for project monitoring • Performing documents review with the team in order to ensure understanding of the requirements • Performing vulnerability testing, security testing, stress testing • Writing automated tests for different platforms (Windows, MacOS, Android) in Python (using PyUnit, uiautomator, robotium and Sikuli) • Kanban agile environment

Incident Response Engineer

Apr 2010 - Oct 2012

2 years 7 months

• Troubleshooting various bugs reported by partners and support engineers tier 2&3 (using sysinternals suite apps) • Collaborating with development teams through the troubleshooting and debugging process • Creating patches and scripts for fast workarounds (for the support team and partners) • Creating some applications for the support team (automate troubleshooting)

Technical Support Engineer tiers 1,2,3

Feb 2008 - May 2010

2 years 4 months

• Providing support for Antivirus applications • Helping customers through different means of communication (telephone, live chat and e-mail) • Creating different scripts and patches for different workarounds (to be used until the problem was solved via update) • Create KB articles for BitDefender site, including the aforementioned patches


Education

University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest

Master's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering

2003 - 2008

6 years


Licenses & certifications

ISTQB certified advanced test analyst

Issued: May 2019

Certified by SEETB

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