Robertino Catalin Ionescu
Department Manager Quality Assurance
București
Summary
I bring a proven track record of elevating testing functions into strategic enablers of delivery excellence. My experience spans building scalable test strategies, strengthening quality governance, and driving automation-first transformation across complex, multi‑team environments. I focus on aligning testing outcomes with business priorities—reducing risk, accelerating release cycles, and improving product reliability.
Across my roles, I’ve led cross‑functional teams to modernize QA practices, embed quality engineering principles, and implement data‑driven decision frameworks. This includes establishing enterprise-wide test standards, maturing automation frameworks, optimizing test environments, and improving defect prevention through early engagement and shift‑left practices. My leadership style emphasizes clarity, accountability, and continuous improvement, ensuring teams deliver predictable, high‑quality results.
I’m particularly effective in environments undergoing transformation—whether scaling agile delivery, adopting DevOps, or modernizing legacy systems. I partner closely with engineering, product, and architecture leaders to ensure quality is built in, not inspected at the end. The outcome is a testing organization that is proactive, efficient, and trusted to safeguard delivery while enabling speed.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
8
8
Certifications
2
2
Languages
Work History
Department Manager of Quality Assurance
OMV Group, Energy Division
Bucharest, Romania
01.2025 - Current
- Implemented governance frameworks aligned to
ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119 and ISTQB standards - Owning QA strategy across the entire OMV
Group - Mature testing framework covering all activities in
SDLC: projects, operational, maintenance
windows, services, etc. - Monitoring end to end of the entire lifecycle of
production deployments, starting with projects,
SIT and UAT, operational and security
vulnerabilities. - Implemented quality control measures that
resulted in improved products or services within
the department offerings. - Ensuring that all the milestones are respected in
time and budget, from one phase to another. Less deviations from budget and timeline (not
more than 5%). - Ensuring that all the documents are following the
standard templates in the organization for all
vendors/external partners in each stage of the
project (BIA. BRS, FRS, Testing Strategy, SIT and
UAT Certificate, etc.). - Verify that all the projects have SIT/UAT Testing
Certificate as mandatory document for
production deployment. - Ensuring that all the security vulnerabilities are
treated according to internal SLAs based on
international standards and best practices. - Performing risk management during the project
lifecycle - Extended verifications and validations to SaaS,
PaaS and IaaS - Reduced the defects identified in productive
environment with 90% - Have grown automation coverage from nothing
to ~65% and it is continuously growing by using
also AI - Implemented AI in creation of Project Testing
Strategies, risks identification, daily report,
creation of test cases, scripts, etc. - Improved customer satisfaction rates through
attentive service, prompt issue resolution, and
continuous process improvements. - Collaborated with other departments to ensure
seamless coordination in achieving companywide
objectives. - Increased customer satisfaction with proactive
issue resolution strategies.
Department Manager of Testing Automation Centre
OMV Group, Energy Division
Bucharest, Romania
08.2021 - 12.2024
- Managing global projects for all the countries
from the OMV Group having resource distributed
in 12+ countries. - Managing the Business Analysts team for OMV
Group. - Developed functional testing, manual and
automated and non-functional testing:
performance, load, stress, etc. - Run security tests using • dedicated tools.
Ensure CI/CD pipelines are covered by
automated testing. - Developed testing infrastructure based on
OpenText tools: Application Lifecycle
Management (ALM), Unified Functional Testing
(UFT), Load Runner (LR), Fortify on Demand (FoD). - Increased productivity by identifying bottlenecks
and implementing targeted solutions.
Department Manager of Operational Asset Support
OMV Petrom Global Solutions
Bucharest, Romania
10.2018 - 07.2021
- Performance management and development of
department members: IT LAS members, Testing
Engineers, and IT Business Analysts. - Globally directing and supervising all delivery
activities and responsible for the development
and continuous improvement of OAS
department activities, services and organization
in Romania. - Leading the definition of OAS services strategy on
DX (Digital Excellence) UA (Upstream
Applications) locations. - Coordination the development, optimization,
and implementation of OAS processes,
procedures, and standards. - Globally responsible for all DX UA OAS activities
for Upstream division regarding provide value
added, efficient and cost-effective support for
OAS services. - Globally accountable for all OAS provided
services and support of these to its OMV Petrom
Domestic Assets. - Tailored a more efficient team by introducing
automation in all testing activities.
Manager of Test Competency Centre
Central Europe Technologies Member of BNP Paribas
Bucharest, Romania
11.2016 - 10.2018
- Coordinating testing activities (manual and
automated testing) having resources distributed
in five countries: Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary,
Czech Republic, and Slovakia. - Initiate and obtain approval for testing projects
as per CETs testing team needs. - Plan testing projects according to CETs internal
procedures and project management best
practices.
Consultant
IOVIO B.V.
Vienna, Austria
09.2015 - 11.2016
- ERP Test Coordinator at Hutchison 3G – Drei
Austria, Vienna (https://www.drei.at/), former
Orange Austria, at Service & Quality
Management/SIT department. - Coordination of local resources from the Drei
Group: Austria, Italy and UK. - Responsible for steering, planning, and reporting
within the ERP testing department. - Responsible for test coverage, test efficiency and
testing processes.
Retail Collection Officer
Banca Romaneasca – NBG Group
03.2015 - 09.2015
- Gather, analyze and document business requirements received from all Collection System (Capone) stakeholders.
- Formulate and create Functional Specification documentation, working in close collaboration with other roles: Application owners (Collection Management), Solution architects.
Domain Testing Lead
Vodafone Romania SA
10.2012 - 12.2014
- Coordinating the online domain at Testing and Deployment department.
- Develops and implements the methodology for product acceptance and standards for major projects, evaluates the result and recommends solutions for IT testing.
Application Quality Leader
Vodafone Romania SA
09.2011 - 10.2012
- Information Systems QA and Testing department with the same attributions as ATPL.
Acceptance Testing Project Leader
Vodafone Romania SA
05.2011 - 09.2011
- Develops and implements the methodology for product acceptance and standards for major projects, evaluates the result and recommends solutions for IT testing.
- Coordinates testing activity and the acceptance process by: Risk management, Resource management – human, software and hardware, Management of the UAT phase of the projects with the focus on meeting the deadlines and not compromising the quality of the software product.
IT Product Acceptance Analyst
Vodafone Romania SA
02.2008 - 05.2011
- Ensure testing process preparation and execution for IT solutions at Product Acceptance Standards (BS7925 – acceptance testing is formal testing conducted to enable a user, customer, or other authorized entity to determine whether to accept a system or component).
Education
Bachelor of Law -
Romanian American University
01-2000
High School -
Dimitrie Cantemir
01-1993
Skills
Strategic Thinking/Planning: Developing long-term strategies
Communication and Influence: Clearly articulating goals and inspiring teams
Emotional Intelligence and Collaboration: Building relationships, mentoring, and motivation
Change Management: Leading organizations through transitions
Certification
Agile/cloud tools: Azure, Delfi, Geocloud, Google, etc.
Interests
Music, movies and photography
Timeline
Department Manager of Quality Assurance
OMV Group, Energy Division
01.2025 - Current
ITIL 4 Foundation 2024
02-2024
Department Manager of Testing Automation Centre
OMV Group, Energy Division
08.2021 - 12.2024
Agile/cloud tools: Azure, Delfi, Geocloud, Google, etc.
05-2019
Department Manager of Operational Asset Support
OMV Petrom Global Solutions
10.2018 - 07.2021
Manager of Test Competency Centre
Central Europe Technologies Member of BNP Paribas
11.2016 - 10.2018
Consultant
IOVIO B.V.
09.2015 - 11.2016
Retail Collection Officer
Banca Romaneasca – NBG Group
03.2015 - 09.2015
Domain Testing Lead
Vodafone Romania SA
10.2012 - 12.2014
Application Quality Leader
Vodafone Romania SA
09.2011 - 10.2012
Acceptance Testing Project Leader
Vodafone Romania SA
05.2011 - 09.2011
Oracle Database 11g: Program with PL/SQL - at Oracle University
07-2010
IBM WebSphere Message Broker V6.1 - System Administration Workshop at IBM Romania SA
02-2009
Oracle Database 10g: Introduction to SQL Ed 2 at Oracle University
01-2009
IT Product Acceptance Analyst
Vodafone Romania SA
02.2008 - 05.2011
Project Management Course at Open University – CODECS – 2011
05-2001
Bachelor of Law -
Romanian American University
High School -
Dimitrie Cantemir