Eremia Laurentiu
Bucharest,Romania
Summary
DevOps Engineer with 9+ years in tech, combining a strong QA automation background with hands-on DevOps experience in Kubernetes, GitLab CI/CD, and cloud-native tooling. CKA certified. Proven track record of owning full delivery pipelines, from writing automated tests, securing pipelines to deploying and monitoring production environments
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work history
DevOps Engineer
Thales Group
2025.02 - Current
- Orchestrated deployments across all environments (int/ppd/prd) using GitLab CI/CD pipelines, ensuring consistent and reliable release workflows
- Integrated SAST, DAST and SonarQube into GitLab CI/CD pipelines, enforcing automated security checks on every build
- Improved Maki security report score from 4.5 to 10 through systematic vulnerability remediation
- Reduced mean time to resolution for production incidents through hands-on Kubernetes debugging — log retrieval, pod exec access, and health check analysis
- Centralized all sensitive credentials in HashiCorp Vault and automated secret injection at deployment time, eliminating hardcoded secrets
- Designed Grafana alerting strategy across 3 environments, catching incidents before user impact
- Designed and deployed a Redis caching layer on Kubernetes for large dataset responses, reducing repeated computation and improving throughput for data-heavy endpoint
QA Engineer
Thales Group
2023.11 - 2025.01
- Developed E2E automation tests using Playwright and Postman (Xray integration)
- Developed test plans that covered full smoke and regression tests
- Built performance/load tests with JMeter to validate concurrent access scenarios
- Wrote bash scripts to automate test execution and generate git history changelogs
- Coordinated multi-user concurrency testing to identify critical flow issues
- Successfully delivered the E2E application to production
QA Engineer
R Systems
2022.07 - 2023.04
- Learned Linux and Docker within the first month and got a project after a technical interview on the company's biggest client
- Created FAT/RTM documents based on client's requirement criteria and tested both manually and automated API endpoints covering the FAT test cases
- Automated the functional tests with Jmeter as well as creating Groovy scripts to extract and manipulate the data from the API response
- Delivered successfully the internal project to the client after all the tests were passed on all environments
QA Engineer
Everymatrix LTD
2019.07 - 2022.07
- Developed manual and automated tests for multiple end-to-end web applications ensuring their succesful deployment in production (we worked with CI/CD and there were frequent deploys)
- Tested several feature designs using FIGMA
- Refactored the WebdriverIO automation project from procedural programming to POM using Javascript, additionally removed redundant libraries and added new capabilities which overall improved the speed of the tests by 50%
- Improved the testing processes and came with solutions that were agreed by the other 4 QA members
QA Tester
GREENLINK GROUP
2018.02 - 2019.02
- Submitted and monitored the resolution of bugs, verified the fixes, and assisted developers in addressing ongoing issues by offering a QA viewpoint. Additionally, I led the regression team
- Ensured that the documentation was up-to-date and aligned with the latest version of the application
- Provided daily reports to the client detailing the coverage status
QA Tester
SC Ubisoft SRL
2016.07 - 2017.08
- Manually tested and successfully delivered a big project gaming project
- Ensured that there were no similar defects before introducing them into the Jira database
- Maintained effective communication with the dev team and the other QA team based in India
Education
Psychology
University "Hyperion"
Bucharest, Romania2016
Skills
- Kubernetes, Docker, Bash scripting
- Linux, Jenkins, Vault
- Grafana, Loki, Prometheus
- Gitlab CI/CD, Git, Jira
- Jmeter, Playwright, Javascript
- SAST, DAST, SonarQube
Certifications
Certified Kubernetes Administrator
AWS Cloud Quest: Cloud Practitioner
Timeline
DevOps Engineer
Thales Group
2025.02 - Current
QA Engineer
Thales Group
2023.11 - 2025.01
QA Engineer
R Systems
2022.07 - 2023.04
QA Engineer
Everymatrix LTD
2019.07 - 2022.07
QA Tester
GREENLINK GROUP
2018.02 - 2019.02
QA Tester
SC Ubisoft SRL
2016.07 - 2017.08
Psychology
University "Hyperion"