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Pavel Burea Senior QA Lead Automation

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

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

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)