Pavel Burea — Senior QA Lead Automation

Expertise in QA Automation / Testing (6.0 yr.), Agile Leader (2.0 yr.).

Last verified on March, 2025

Core Skills

Usability tests

QA Automation

6 yr.

Test Plan

Test Case

*nix Shell Scripts

Bio Summary

Six years experienced QA Engineer in manual and automated testing, ensuring robust, scalable, and user-friendly applications. Skilled in identifying issues early, optimizing testing processes, managing QA team and collaborating closely with developers to enhance product reliability.

⬥ Experience in testing web applications , mobile applications , Blockchain, E-commerce, software and hardware.
⬥ Programming languages: JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Python , C#
⬥ API testing: Postman, Apidog
⬥ UI testing: Playwright , Selenium, BackstopJS, Ghost Inspector, Cypress
⬥ CI/CD Integration: GitHub, Docker, Jenkins CI, GitLab

Technical Skills

Programming Languages	Java, JavaScript, Python, TypeScript
Java Libraries and Tools	Java SE
Wordpress Ecosystem	WooCommerce API
Google Cloud Platform	Cloud Functions
Methodologies, Paradigms and Patterns	Agile, Scrum
QA, Test Automation, Security	API testing, Cypress, Locust, Playwright, QA Automation, Selenium, Test Plan, Unit Testing, Usability tests
SDK / API and Integrations	API testing, WooCommerce API
Collaboration, Task & Issue Tracking	Atlassian Confluence, Jira, Redmine
Scripting and Command Line Interfaces	*nix Shell Scripts
Other Technical Skills	istqb, STLC, Teamwork

Work Experience

QA Lead Engineer, QA Process Overhaul

Duration: November 2022 — Present (2 years 4 months)
Summary: Revamped QA processes with a risk-based testing strategy, resulting in a significant reduction of production defects.
Responsibilities: Leading a cross-functional team, optimizing geolocation coverage, and streamlining eCommerce and payment testing.
Technologies: Risk-based Testing, Geolocation Testing, eCommerce, Payment Systems

Senior QA Engineer, Testing Process Optimization

Duration: 2022 — 2022 (1 year)
Summary: Development of testing processes from the ground-up and unification of test documentation across projects.
Responsibilities: Developed testing processes, unified test documentation, deployed integration tests in CI/CD pipelines, improved performance testing.
Technologies: CI/CD, Locust, Integration Testing

QA Engineer, Automated Testing Implementation

Duration: 2021 — 2022 (7 months)
Summary: Implemented cross-team collaboration for automated web and API testing, achieving a reduction in production defects.
Responsibilities: Collaboration for automated web and API testing, shift-left testing to find issues earlier in the SDLC.
Technologies: Automated Web and API Testing

QA Engineer, QA Documentation & Onboarding Improvement

Duration: 2019 — 2021 (2 years 1 month)
Summary: Establishment of QA knowledge base and documentation, leading to more efficient onboarding of new hires.
Responsibilities: Creation a QA knowledge base & documentation, implementation of standardized bug reporting.
Technologies: QA Documentation, Bug Reporting

Education

Summer Informatics Internship
USARB — Universitatea de Stat
1 year
Bachelor's in Computer Sciences
Technical College
4 years

Certification

Rapid Software Testing
RST (2023)
C# Intermediate: Classes, Interfaces and OOP
Udemy (2021)

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