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Andrei Eugen Torpenyi

Andrei Eugen Torpenyi

Scrum master | QA Engineer | PQM | Project Manager
Cluj

Summary

Accredited Scrum Master with 4+ years of active facilitation

experience, adept at implementing Agile methodologies and

fostering team collaboration. Project Manager, bringing a qualityfocused

mindset to broader project challenges. Known for

meticulous attention to detail, strategic risk management, and the

ability to align quality objectives with business goals while effectively

leading cross-functional teams (5-10 people).

Senior QA Engineer with over 12 years of experience in quality

assurance across mobile, web, and embedded systems.

Proven track record in leadership positions including Project Quality

Manager (PQM) and QA Team Lead roles for 6+ years, successfully

improving testing efficiency by over 20%.

Key Achievements

  • Assured quality of deliverables for three teams specialized in english learning for industry-leading organizations with a revenue of $3.2B
  • Increased team performance by a median of 32% through effective Agile implementation and leadership
  • Managed cross-functional teams of 5-10 professionals across multiple departments
  • Implemented quality assurance strategies that improved testing efficiency by over 20% for clients specializing in Education,
  • Navigations, Banking and Mobile industry
  • Applied Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) to streamline workflows and enhance productivity

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
4
4
Certificates
3
3
Languages

Work History

Project Manager

Hearttech Innovations
Cluj Napoca, Cluj
02.2024 - Current
  • Managed and completed multiple projects while leading teams of 5-10 people per project, prioritizing work based on urgency, available resources, and organizational priorities.
  • Developed actionable plans and secured necessary resources to achieve project objectives
  • Provided detailed project status updates to stakeholders and executive management.
  • Developed strong relationships with stakeholders through regular communication updates, fostering trust and confidence in the team''s ability to deliver results.
  • Proved successful working within tight deadlines and a fast-paced environment.
  • Improved client relationships and maintained open lines of communication.
  • Tracked progress against key milestones, making timely adjustments to schedules and resources to maintain momentum
  • Conducted thorough risk assessments and created practical mitigation strategies to prevent issues before they impacted project delivery
  • Partnered with senior leadership to ensure project goals aligned with company strategy, directly contributing to business growth
  • Regularly reviewed project performance to spot improvement opportunities and implement practical solutions
  • Built strong communication channels within teams to enhance collaboration and drive successful project completion

Scrum Master

Mondly by Pearson
Brasov remote
02.2024 - 03.2025
  • Increased the teams velocity by approx 15% by coaching the team with regard to the importance of DoD, AC and DoR
  • Implemented the T model for scrum teams and coached the team members in the importance of this specific model
  • Managed product backlog effectively, prioritizing high-value items for faster completion.
  • Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
  • Conducted daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning sessions, and sprint reviews, ensuring effective communication among team members.
  • Developed custom Scrum boards for better task tracking and transparency within the team.
  • Collaborated with Product Owners to refine requirements and ensure alignment with business goals.
  • Coached cross-functional teams on Agile principles, leading to an increase in successful project deliveries.
    Implemented continuous improvement initiatives through regular retrospective meetings with the team.
  • Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.

Lead QA Engineer

Mondly by Pearson
Cluj Napoca
02.2024 - 03.2025
  • Contributed to numerous successful product launches through meticulous end-to-end testing of applications.
  • Increased product stability by ~ 30% by identifying critical issues early during the development cycle through meticulous testing efforts.
  • Performed manual testing on iOS and Android devices in order to ensure top end quality standards increasing overall product quality by over 20%
  • Conducted end-to-end system testing to validate functionality of complex applications before release dates.
  • Minimized risks associated with software releases by performing thorough regression testing on modified codebase components.
  • Participated in peer reviews of test artifacts to maintain high levels of accuracy and consistency throughout the testing process.
  • Reduced software defects by thoroughly analyzing requirements, user stories, and technical specifications.
  • Performed smoke tests after production deployment to confirm successful implementation without any adverse impact on existing functionality or data integrity.
  • Prioritized defect fixes based on severity levels to ensure the proper allocation of resources towards most critical issues first.
  • Streamlined testing processes by creating reusable test documentation, resulting in quicker test execution.

Scrum Master and QA Manager

IBM
Cluj Napoca
07.2023 - 09.2024
  • Testing was performed on a web based fintech solution for BMW car dealerships
  • Coached cross-functional teams on Agile principles, leading to an 24% increase in successful project deliveries.
  • Increased the overall teams velocity by about 40% by implementing the story point definition and thus guiding the team to better estimate tasks.
  • Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives increasing overall team chemistry.
  • Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
  • Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins.
  • Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.
  • Worked closely and listened to team members' feedback to identify issues and resolve conflicts.
  • Resolved staff conflicts and identified potential areas of improvement.
  • Partnered with project team members to identify and quickly address problems.
  • Provided regular updates to team leadership on quality metrics by communicating consistency problems or production deficiencies.
  • Educated employees on specific QA standards and confirmed maintenance of standards.
  • Inspected items and compared against standards to meet regulatory requirements.
  • Performed quality inspections and drafted reports to detail non-conforming material issues.
  • Reported on non-compliance issues and other negative factors discovered during production.

PQM

Telenav Software
Cluj Napoca
05.2019 - 06.2023
  • Work with Global Functional QA Lead to develop test strategy and test plan for the project/program under test
  • Work with Global functional QA Lead and local project QA leads to define test environment, including test tools and test prototypes needed for the project
  • Work with Project Manager (PJM) and Dev on sprint planning
  • Define Test Scope for sprint, internal milestones and external releases
  • Define dynamic focus test plan based changes (bug fixes and change impacted areas)
  • Define test priority based on release needs
  • Keep project status (eg, project status wiki page) up to date, for actively project, project status page shall be updated at least once a week
  • Define and maintain Bug/JIRA dashboard to monitor project quality against milestone exit criteria
  • Ensure the quality of internal bugs by enforcing QA following the bug filing guideline
  • Drive blocking issue resolution by following up with issue owner, especially for those bugs owned by QA (assigned to QA, or waiting for QA’s response)
  • Raise risk flag through project status and escalate risk flag through upper management as needed
  • Hands on attitude that increased the passing rate of the automation QA on the project with more than 20% in less than one month

QA Team Lead

Telenav Software
Cluj Napoca
01.2018 - 05.2019
  • Provide local project QA support to global project QA lead
  • Provides leadership to the local project QA team
  • Being the local Project QA point of contact to cross functional teams on the local site
  • Work with Global project QA lead for ensure test deliverables
  • Raise local specific project needs (HW, SW) to PQM and make sure are took into consideration in the test plan and strategy
  • Actively participate test plan/case development and review process
  • Working with Global Project QA lead to define test scope for sprint, internal milestones and external releases
  • Working with Global Project QA lead to define dynamic focused test plan based on changes
  • Escalate Risk to Global Project QA lead, and to upper management as needed

QA Engineer

Telenav Software
Cluj Napoca
01.2017 - 06.2018
  • Participate actively in all testing phases
  • Define the test strategy, test plan and testing area
  • Raise and anticipate test&projects risks and provide viable mitigation plans
  • Responsible for Test Case design, execution and reporting for certain testing domains or functionalities
  • Perform test data updates for the automation team
  • Manage the QA Automation framework and update the code so that it correctly tests and covers all new features
  • Manage availability, latency, scalability and efficiency of the apps
  • Involved on the system requirements review
  • Offer creative solutions to challenging issues
  • Maintain good communication with other teams
  • Actively participate to the automation & continuous integration solutions and implementation
  • Successfully handling different responsibilities as part of the project team
  • Providing support and knowledge transfer for the peers and juniors
  • Maintain automation tests by running the Jenkins jobs and analyzing and fixing false failures or false positives
  • Modifying existing automated test cases based on the changes of specifications or features on the project

QA Engineer

Neusoft EDC
Cluj Napoca
06.2015 - 01.2017
  • Test case design, execution and reporting
  • Contribute to the test plan and testing area for the projects
  • Provide correct estimation for the tasks
  • Maintain a good communication, internally (team) and externally (inter site/other teams)
  • Offer creative solutions to challenging issues

Senior QA Tester

Gameloft Romania
Cluj Napoca
08.2013 - 06.2015
  • Perform black box testing on different applications (mobile games)
  • Ensure the overall quality of the information transmitted between the application under test and the receiving server (Tracking BI team)

Skills

Multi-site operations

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Certification

Cambridge English certificate for Advanced English

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Work Preference

Work Type

Full TimeContract Work

Work Location

On-SiteRemoteHybrid

Important To Me

Flexible work hoursWork-life balanceWork from home optionCareer advancement

Languages

English
Advanced (C1)
Romanian
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Hungarian
Elementary (A2)

Timeline

Project Manager

Hearttech Innovations
02.2024 - Current

Scrum Master

Mondly by Pearson
02.2024 - 03.2025

Lead QA Engineer

Mondly by Pearson
02.2024 - 03.2025

Certified Scrum Master from the International SCRUM Institute

01-2024

IBM Banking Industry Jumpstart badge

11-2023

Scrum Master and QA Manager

IBM
07.2023 - 09.2024

PQM

Telenav Software
05.2019 - 06.2023

ISTQB certification foundation level

02-2018

QA Team Lead

Telenav Software
01.2018 - 05.2019

QA Engineer

Telenav Software
01.2017 - 06.2018

QA Engineer

Neusoft EDC
06.2015 - 01.2017

Senior QA Tester

Gameloft Romania
08.2013 - 06.2015
Cambridge English certificate for Advanced English
03-2007

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