Iulian Mitrea

I bring my contribution in building a clear vision and direction for the Centric QA Discipline.

Coordinate the discipline enhancement plan and support improvements raised by the teams to process and tools in order to boost quality, reporting and delivery on-time.

Oversee the development, maintenance, and implementation of the QA Positioning Level Matrix, along with Technical Validation and Assessment Center processes, throughout the company’s entire QA community.

Regular alignment with the CTO office and Managing Directors to ensure robust career progression, transparency, and a sense of accomplishment for QA teams across existing projects.
Focused to improve the collaboration with other technical disciplines to define multi-discipline solution with added value. Create innovation context for engineering corporate initiatives and link the business needs with the Centric innovation success stories.

Working next to QA Architect and Software Architects to create new internal testing frameworks that are improving the efficiency and time to market.

Directly involved in customer-facing meetings to bridge the gap between software quality and customer satisfaction, ensuring that our existing solutions aligns with the client expectations.

Developed the foundational curriculum for both Manual and Automation Testing courses.
Designed course materials, practical exercises, and assessments to provide comprehensive training in quality assurance concepts and tools.
Built the technical infrastructure for QA courses, enabling trainees to access web platforms and apply their knowledge through hands-on practice.
Mentored and taught over 12 groups of QA trainees, guiding them through the learning process and ensuring their understanding of testing principles.

Having more than 60% o trainees hired in different world wide companies.
Maintained and updated theoretical and technical libraries based on feedback from trainees and partner companies, ensuring relevance and quality.
Worked closely with IT companies to support QA team development, including preparation for ISTQB certifications and ramping up team readiness.
Delivered hands-on sessions to bridge theoretical knowledge with real-world applications in manual and automation testing.
Provided career mentorship, assisting trainees in transitioning to professional QA roles by sharing industry trends, insights, and best practices.

From this role I'm responsible for leading a team who handles the final release process of the Alfresco Content Service product. This includes working with Program Management to plan & forecast releases and liaising with Delivery Teams to support early testing for the company products.
Responsibilities:
Coordinate release testing activities including planning & estimation of new releases. Work with Program Management to define the roadmap and agree release dates.
Based on the company delivery changes I'm creating test strategies and plans to define the test approach that will be taken
For a successful end-to-end testing process take decisions around how much automation vs manual is needed
Plan & monitor availability of the entire test environments and other technical test resources
Work with Delivery Teams to ensure tests are fit for purpose and available for use in release testing.
Monitor availability of the team members and adjust the team size accordingly
Coach the testing team members and identify training needs for the team
Continuously gathering feedbacks from the team members in order to improve our skills and our working environment

• As a Software Tester Engineer I was part of a distributed team formed by developers, testers and devops
• Participate in troubleshooting and triaging of issues to drive towards root cause identification and resolution
• Focused in developing communication strategies that helped the team to be flexible and responsive to the changes from the software development process
• Testing types: manual testing, benchmark testing, automation testing (execution and investigation of failures)
• Technologies: Web Servers: Tomcat, JBoss, Websphere, Weblogic; Database: Oracle, Mysql, Postgresql, MSSQL, MariaDB, DB2; OS: MAC OS, Windows, Redhat, Ubuntu, Centos, SUSE, Solaris; JIRA; TestLink, TestRail; Docker, Kubernetes - basics; Selenium Webdriver
• Actions: daily interactions with Scrum Master, Product Owner and team members due to our scrum ceremonies, tasks and test estimations at the beginning of the JIRA sprints, develop/update test case scenarios in TestLink and TestRail, together with the team search new ways to innovate the release process, create and execute test plans in TestLink and TestRail, work closely with the JIRA workflow, demo the functionalities at the end of sprint
• Environment Configuration: configure the virtual machine/docker environment and add it into domain, install and configure the application server to OS, install and configure the database server on OS, install/configure the application to work with application server and database server, configure the environment to work in cluster mode (use the same database and content store), configure the loadbalancer in order to access the configured cluster
• Benchmark testing: configure environment with 1TB of Database and content store, upload benchmark tests to the benchmark server, execute the benchmark tests- analyze results and raised issued if necessary
• Docker - basic manipulation of existent images- install docker and docker-compose- configure Dockerfile in order to create a new docker image- build new docker image based on a template- deploy docker containers using the new image

Create detailed test plan, test strategy and test cases based on the SRS provided by the Technical Analyst and Business Analyst.
Map business and technical requirements to low-level/high-level test cases.
Support during UAT phase working together with the Business units and collaborate with Software Engineering/Development as needed to solve problems and identify root cause of product defects.
Assist developers with debugging defects\Production tickets by reproducing them in the DW Test Environment.
Design, develop and maintain Business Process Testing components, flows and processes.
Review and define acceptance criteria based on the business units requirements and also review business units requirements and provide input in clarifying them.
Review test plan/test cases for the other team members.
Educate and mentor other team members on agile testing practices and tools.

Tools/Technologies:
Programing: Oracle PL/SQL and SQL / Toad for Oracle
ETL Tools: Oracle Warehouse Builder and Oracle Workflow Manager
Reporting: IBM Cognos Business Intelligence: Report Studio, Analysis Studio, Event Studio
Database: Oracle 11gR2, Oracle 10g
Testing: HP Quality Center/ALM and Jira(task management)

• Company Overview: www.embarcadero.com
• Work with various Embarcadero Products QA tools, client-server architectures and Application Virtualization software techniques
• Write test-plans, execute test cases investigate and understand functionality and usability issues, report bugs and consolidate reports
• Developing and implementing quality programs based on tracking, analyzing, reporting, and problem solving strategies
• Assist management in development of Quality Program Plan and subsequent revisions
• Assist in defining/developing Quality Program status indicators, performance measurements and reporting requirements
• Work with application virtualization (VMware, Symantec EVS, Microsoft App-V)
• Work with issue tracking and project management tool like Jira
• Train and mentor new members of the team
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• Company Overview: www.embarcadero.com
• Evaluate and troubleshoot customer issues while tracking details in the Customer Relation Management system
• Identify, replicate, and document customer reported products defects and enhancement requests
• Develop and test workarounds when and if applicable
• Participate and articulate test cases for management and the product development team
• Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems
• Develop a high-level understanding of the company award-winning products
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