Glăvan Dragos-Cosmin
Engineer
Bucharest
Summary
Dedicated and passionate engineer with a strong enthusiasm for technology and innovation. I thrive in collaborative environments, believing that the best solutions emerge from teamwork and shared ideas. With a proven track record of successful project execution, I excel at bridging communication between technical and non-technical team members to drive projects forward. Committed to continuous learning, I stay updated with industry trends and enjoy mentoring others to foster a culture of growth and creativity within the team.
Overview
2025
2025
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Languages
Work History
Manager - Testing and Validation
GoPRO
8 2024 - Current
- Manage and lead the Firmware QA - Run and Analysis Team, providing strategy and direction, support and mentorship
- Provide performance evaluation and feedback and foster professional development among team members
- Supervise and drive the execution and delivery according to the overall business plan
- Map and prepare resources and team for up-coming projects and also keeping oversight on sustaining and maintenance projects that are on-going to ensure optimized load in each specific area
- Define technical work that needs to be done and estimate efforts
- Oversee daily activity to ensure high-performance and fast-paced delivery of results across multiple projects
- Develop cooperative relations with different GoPro world-wide locations and teams in order to facilitate discussions and streamlined processes and expectations in alignment with organizational goals
- Prepare and manage the team budget, ensuring optimal allocation of resources while monitoring expenses and further cost risk evaluation
- Ensure infrastructure management from reliability, security, and performance to managing system upgrades, installations and maintenance activities
- Qualify and manage IT vendors and service providers while enforcing security policies and procedures to protect company data and systems
- Develop training programs to enhance team members skills
- Prepare regular reports on team performance, systems and setups availability, and project status for Senior management
Supervisor - Testing and Automation
GoPRO
03.2023 - 08.2024
- Supervise and lead the Firmware QA Automation Run and Analysis Team, providing guidance and support
- Foster good collaboration and communication in alignment with company values to enhance productivity and initiative across the team
- Develop and implement QA strategies and best practices to ensure reduction in human-error and flawed processes
- Collaborate with Senior Management to align QA objectives and priorities with overall business goals
- Oversee development and maintenance of test laboratories, test plans and strategies to be execute on each new project in relationship to new features, new specifications and documentation
- Analysis of necessary hardware acquisitions with the aim to improve existing laboratory capacity and also reduce cost from careful vendor analysis and future proofing concepts regarding preferred setups
- Act as a liaison between the QA team and multiple other teams (development teams, mobile app teams, desktop app teams, other QA teams) both local and worldwide in order to facilitate communication and collaboration
- Allocation of resources and tasks effectively while achieving proper load balancing to meet project deadlines
- Identify patterns and propose solutions to enhance efficiency and regularly review and refine testing processes to adapt to new upcoming challenges
- Gather data and generate reports and dashboards on QA Activities, testing progress and metrics to present to management and stakeholders
- Provide mentorship and training to team members on testing methodologies, tools, and processes
- Guiding and helping team members to tackle complex issues and improve problem-solving skills, leading to evolution and career advancement as well as seniorship promotions
Sr. Engineer - Firmware QA Testing and Automation
GoPRO
03.2022 - 03.2023
- Learn to use existing automation framework and leverage automation tools and scripts to run automated tests and analyze data
- Identify patterns, design and implement a comprehensive automation testing strategy aligned with project goals ensuring a clear process and improved efficiency
- Prioritize tasks for running automated test cases based on project milestones and deadlines
- Develop and maintain test plans, suites and cases to execute on each new project in relationship to new features, new specifications and documentation
- Troubleshoot and debug hardware setups for running automated test cases both in existing laboratory and on local setups
- Execute automated test cases, gather logs to analyze results and provide detailed reporting on issues found using tools such as: TestRail, Jenkins, CoolTerm, Jira, PyCharm, Visual Studio
- Perform and extend multiple types of functional testing: Sanity, Smoke, Acceptance, Regression, Stress testing
- Work closely with cross-functional teams such as developers, manual testers, mobile application testers and other team members to ensure firmware quality throughout the development lifecycle
- Participate in daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning and retrospective meetings to provide details on testing progress
- Sharing knowledge and implementing best practices in automation testing process
- Challenge existing process and propose and implement new practices to improve execution times, load balancing, tracking and efficiency
- Create and maintain documentation and dashboards around testing process containing KPIs, metrics and easy-to-visualize graphs for stress and performance testing
Sr. Engineer - Firmware QA Tester
GoPRO
10.2019 - 03.2022
- Help create and grow manual testing team, fostering teamwork and good collaboration to achieve validation goals on each project milestone
- Ensure on-boarding process and provide guidance and mentorship to new QA team members
- Develop comprehensive test cases, test plans and test strategies based on specifications and project requirements
- Execute manual test cases and analyze resulting logs in order to sort out errors and issues
- Perform regression testing on every firmware release to check potential functional impact after implemented changes
- Report found issues - document tickets using tracking tools such as Jira while providing detailed scenario description along with necessary logs and evidence
- Working closely with development team to provide any support and information requested as well as to verify fixes until final resolution
- Participating in daily stand-up team meetings, sprint planning retrospective meetings (two-weeks cycle)
- Ensure cooperative relations and sync with other QA Teams worldwide like USA and France
- Process improvement - evaluating test cycles, revising test plans to enhance efficiency and effectiveness
- Improving existing test coverage based on new features and ensuring better alignment cross-teams thus reducing redundancies
- Creating or updating testing documentation between project milestones and with arrival of new projects
- Periodically identifying risks based on bugs assessment and proposing new testing scenarios to mitigate them
QA System Test Engineer
Luxoft Professional Romania
5 2017 - 10.2019
- Performing manual system test on bench and vehicle (smoke testing, sanity testing, regression testing, experience-based, validation, exploratory testing, security testing)
- Finding and logging issues - raising tickets and monitoring issue's lifecycle until it is fixed
- Adapting hardware harness in order to run specifically requested test scenarios with different equipment
- The verification of certain test cases/test suites - creating and/or modifying test cases based on new system requirements or client-related scenarios
- Finding methods of improved testing - bigger coverage, lower run time, lower redundancy or specifically targeted testing
- Performing acceptance testing together with client - test drives in Europe and requested client scenario testing
- Participating in daily meetings, generating activity reports, sending daily feedback regarding testing progress and current status (urgent/high priority issues found, blocking points, equipment/software needed to perform certain test cases)
- Being part of recruitment/training process for newcomers to the team
- Used technologies: RQM/ALM, Wireshark, Confluence, RAFT, CANoe, Citrix, Doors, TMS, JIRA, TeraTerm
Software validation leader
Assystem Romania
04.2015 - 05.2017
- Adapting or creating test cases in validation suits as part of client testing of delivered software
- Performing bench testing (smoke, sanity, regression, experience-based, acceptance testing)
- Generating unit configuration files for latest system/software modifications
- Running diagnostics and partial analysis of service reported issues, providing supplier feedback and discussing hardware/software improvements
- Participating and collaborating with supplier for system acoustic fine tuning, vehicle testing and file configuration for different variants
- Requesting and gathering test results from electronic integration platforms, result analysis and validation
- Managing and tracking software change requests - adding new features or modification/configuration of existing ones
- Maintaining and updating technical documentation and configuration files in relation to the latest specified modifications
- Participating in internal daily meetings and weekly supplier meetings to trace and discuss project current status, blocking points or concerns, future development ideas and synchronizing activities to meet certain time line and milestones
- Creating internal courses as part of the software tools training process for new colleagues
- Specific software used: Builder, Signe Ing., Matsub, LUP, EED, SIREV, BVM, REVS, GCC
GSM Technician
Esd-rom
08.2014 - 11.2014
- Diagnostics and repairs performed on mobile phones, tablets, GPS devices
- Technical support and consultancy
- Identifying frequent problems and improving solutions on how to fix them
- ESD-ROM is a company that works in partnership with SAMSUNG, ALLVIEW, LG, YEZZ, PRESTIGIO and provides technical support and maintenance service
Intern
INSOFT DEVELOPMENT CONSULTING SRL
06.2014 - 09.2014
- Developing an application acting as data base for hospitals which can improve work flow and patient history tracking
- Configuring the working environment for specific usage needs
- Application testing - data registration, interface functionality, persistence testing
- Software used: Gnu Health, Virtual Machine
- OS: Linux Ubuntu
Education
Master Degree - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering
Politehnica University of Bucharest
10.2015 - 06.2017
Bachelor Degree - Electronics - Telecommunications
Politehnica University of Bucharest
10.2011 - 06.2015
Skills
Team Leadership
Strategic Planning
Performance Management
Teamwork and Collaboration
Problem-solving abilities
Work Planning and Prioritization
Desiredjob
Working in a professional environment, interested in learning and adapting to diverse fields of IT and engineering. Aiming to constantly improve communication skills and leadership skills while working with highly driven teams to maximize deliverables output and streamline processes., Full Time, over 5 years of experience, Unspecified, Yes, less than 30% of my working time
Personal Information
- Age: 32
- Date of Birth: 12/15/91
- Gender: M
- Driving License: Yes
Timeline
Supervisor - Testing and Automation
GoPRO
03.2023 - 08.2024
Sr. Engineer - Firmware QA Testing and Automation
GoPRO
03.2022 - 03.2023
Sr. Engineer - Firmware QA Tester
GoPRO
10.2019 - 03.2022
Master Degree - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering
Politehnica University of Bucharest
10.2015 - 06.2017
Software validation leader
Assystem Romania
04.2015 - 05.2017
GSM Technician
Esd-rom
08.2014 - 11.2014
Intern
INSOFT DEVELOPMENT CONSULTING SRL
06.2014 - 09.2014
Bachelor Degree - Electronics - Telecommunications
Politehnica University of Bucharest
10.2011 - 06.2015
Manager - Testing and Validation
GoPRO
8 2024 - Current
QA System Test Engineer
Luxoft Professional Romania
5 2017 - 10.2019
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