Cristina Caescu

Leadership & People
*Lead QAs using a servant leadership approach, focused on trust, clarity and growth
*Coach QAs through honest feedback, empathy and support
*Create a safe space where people feel heard and encouraged to take ownership
*Celebrate wins and make the team’s work visible
*Delivered workshops (API testing, JS, automation best practices, test strategy, work ethic) that raised quality across the QA community

Technical
*Built 2 automation frameworks (JS + Playwright, integrated with Azure DevOps) reducing manual regression and increasing release confidence
*Built 2 performance testing frameworks (JavaScript, k6, Grafana ; Puppeteer)
*Built data scraping tool with JS and Slack integration
*CI/CD in Azure DevOps (matrix & serial jobs)
*Created QA documentation: test strategies, test plans, POCs
*Technical interviewing, including automation and leadership guidelines

• Lead and mentor the automation engineers using a visionary and servant leadership style.
• Responsible for people growth and performance evaluations.
• Responsible for building a culture based on care, growth, and collaboration.
• Defined processes for the QA community, including test deliverables and testing standards.
• Created a skills matrix for engineering and soft skills.
• Experience with interviewing and setting templates for technical and leadership interviews
• Ensure alignment between Quality Engineer teams and practices
• Delivering for 2 projects simultaneously and prioritizing tasks accordingly
• Created test strategies, test plans, and test reports for 3 different projects
• Implemented 3 automation frameworks with JavaScript and Cypress
• Provided feedback, guidance, and coaching for engineers from different teams.
• Researched and selected automation tools, prioritizing cost-effective solutions.
• Applied Agile Delivery methods to simplify testing process decisions through iterative development.

• Participated in employee onboarding and performance reviews.
• Guide the team towards a culture of support and performance.
• Contribute proactively to the QA organizational strategies and activities
  ▫️ created a test strategy for the QA/QE department
  ▫️ alignment between teams ways of working
• Managed and being responsible for Quality Engineers from different teams.
• Hiring Manager for Cluj and UK teams.

• Used problem-solving and issue-resolution skills to promptly and successfully address production problems.
• Going the extra mile on coaching the QA team.
• Presented analytical documentation to stakeholders, translating QA strategies into comprehensible language.
• Performed: test case design, monitoring, strategy, planning and reporting for 2 projects in parallel.
• Effective communication and collaboration with team and stakeholders.
• Created comprehensive manual & automated test suites for every new feature.

• Mentoring: Being part of: "Mentor Me" & "Be the QA" internal programs.
• Develop and executed automated test scripts.
• Developed automation frameworks from scratch: Javascript, Cypress (backend +frontend)
• Developed automation framework from scratch: Ruby, RSpec, HTTParty, Capybara, AWS.
• POCs: performance & security testing.
• Manual testing (TestRail, Postman, AWS)

• Manual and automation testing with Ruby and Cucumber.
• Tools: GraphAPI Explorer for Facebook, Splunk, Postman, MySQL Workbench, RubyMine.

• Developed a Rails application: Ruby, Postgresql, Heroku, Amazon s3, basic html&css
• Automation testing: Ruby on Rails, RSpec, Capybara, Selenium, Watir
• Performance testing: ruby-jmeter DSL + Flood.io integration for test reporting. (Tools: RubyMine, iTerm, VmWare, SequelPro, Postman, JIRA, GitLab, GraphQL, Docker)

• Developed automation framework using: Java (+SpringBoot) with TestNG, JUnit, Mokito
• Manual and Automation Testing: MySQL, SQL, Elasticsearch, Mongo, Solr query checks and API validations.
• Load testing: JMeter + reporting
  - Tools: SLS, Fiddler, Git, WinScp, Putty, JIRA, SQL, MySQL Workbench, MongoDB